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Popovich the best ever NBA coach?

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

On Wednesday night, I watched San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Clippers to tie their series 1-1. Spurs are defending champions, and while they remain legitimate title contenders, they are by no means overwhelming favourites to repeat.This...

There is ethics without religion

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Unlike with bird-shooting, in contemporary Jamaica there's no closed season on lambasting the Church. I suppose in a free society everyone is at liberty to criticise religion, politics, gambling on horse racing, or whatever.And everyone is free to...

Don't abort women's rights

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

I write to commend Minister Lisa Hanna's speaking to a difficult but realistically urgent matter. This is leadership.Obviously, affirming the urgency of women's reproductive rights is neither politically expedient nor point-accumulating in general....

Editorial: Kudos on NSWMA board

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Noel Arscott, the bungling and inept local government minister, was bound, at some point, to get something right. That may turn out to be fixing the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), which is responsible for handling the country's...

The degrading and inhumane treatment in our prisons

Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMJaevion Nelson

Hundreds of Jamaicans, mostly males, are detained every year by the police and often subjected to cruel and degrading treatment while incarcerated in police lockups and in correctional and remand centres.Prison conditions and the cruel and inhuman...

Governance: Key to fixing the NSWMA

Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMCollin Greenland

Not surprisingly, the finger-pointing game is now being played in regard to who was responsible for the last Riverton fire - the CEO, board, or both. Actually, to this writer, the personalities in this debate are really less important than the...

God Answers prayers before we ask

Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMDevon Dick

On Sunday, Bishop Joseph Persaud, of the New Testament Church of God in Guyana, preaching at Boulevard Baptist Churh, mentioned the 'Already Factor', meaning that God prepared salvation, healing for us before we asked. Indeed, God pardons us before...

Editorial: Positive move on probate law

Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

It is not, on the face of it, particularly sexy. But last week's overhaul by the Senate of the Administrator-General's Act is of great potential value to the beneficiaries of the estates or people who die without wills, while helping, and the...

Editorial: Watch Mr Cuomo's Cuba charm offensive, PM

Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AM

During this week, over Monday and Tuesday, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the US state of New York, spent 24 hours in Havana meeting with government and Cuban business officials. He was head of a business delegation from the state.Their aim, Mr Cuomo...

Resurrection for Hay-Webster?

Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AM

There has, for a while, been talk in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) that Sharon Hay-Webster is not content to be merely the aide of leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Andrew Holness. After all, since the rug was dragged from under her by the...

Give the Government its due

Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The bold assertions by the minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, A.J. Nicholson, in his speech to the Senate last Friday have given us a basis to set his agenda for the remainder of his tenure. His assertions have also given us further...

A virtuous vocation

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMGordon Robinson

There are real tensions in Jamaican society between strict Christian dogma and life's realities.Take, for example, adultery. Christianity teaches against it. Other faiths have cured the adultery vs reality dilemma with polygamy. After all, if the...

Social media more than idle chatter

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDennis Jones

Many of us know the world is being transformed rapidly by access to and use of Internet facilities. It has allowed countries and communities to jump over developmental hurdles like never before. I saw it first-hand years ago when gold and diamond...

Campion proves you can score in class and on the pitch

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMJulian Robinson

I am grateful to Dr Lascelve 'Muggy' Graham for his article in the Observer of March 30, 2015, highlighting the success of Campion College in winning the 2015 Corporate Area Grace Shield for cricket.Campion College, today, is well known for its...

Message in the mischief

Published:Monday | April 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMPatria-Kaye Aarons

Just over a week ago, I heard the story of all stories. Breaking news on Thursday evening was that a little boy had been abandoned at the Norman Manley International Airport by his parents. The tale goes (allegedly as he told it) that he and his parents were...

Editorial: Confront anti-gay bigots

Published:Monday | April 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

When Barack Obama referenced Angeline Jackson in his remarks to young leaders during his visit to Jamaica, it was more than a statement about the bravery of an individual and the right of people, whatever their sexual orientation, to enjoy their...

The Gavel: Dr Davies, what's really happening with China Harbour?

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDaraine Luton

In August 2013, when Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller travelled to China to meet with government officials as well as potential investors, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the parent company for China Harbour Engineering...

Why are so many Christians not nice people?

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDr Michael Abrahams

First, the good news. There are many wonderful Christians out there. People who are loving, kind, caring and forgiving. A Baptist minister, an Anglican priest, and a Catholic monsignor are among my friends, and are beautiful human beings. As a...

West Kingston enquiry - a clanging cymbal!

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

It seems that the notion of Jamaica being a country in a stagnant economic situation is, after all, a mere myth. We have developed what I now consider to be a very wasteful habit of convening commissions of enquiry, which never seem to achieve any...

Jamaicans need motivation

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

There was a very important lesson to be learnt from the visit of President Barack Obama. His need for a security bubble and our need to welcome, honour and impress him proved that Jamaica is capable of a lot more than we are currently achieving. Many...

Editorial: Gregory Mair echoes Seaga

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Before Gregory Mair joined the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), he was an acolyte of Bruce Golding in the National Democratic Movement (NDM), which Mr Golding left the JLP to establish. He went to the JLP when Mr Golding returned to that party. During his...

Editorial: Wary of overreach, Mrs Neita-Headley

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

We, too, were appalled by Michael O'Hara's ambush-marketing tactic at the recent Boys and Girls' Athletics Championship, but more at those who may have induced the young sprinter, with perhaps limited appreciation of the ways of commerce and...

Chronixx right about Obama’s wasted legacy

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMDonald Wray

I have been champing at the bit, but hesitating to comment on Barack Obama's visit; the local euphoria; then Chronixx's "waste man" comment, and the subsequent backlash that will likely destroy this talented young artiste. No other president in the...

Jamaica hanging by a thread

Published:Friday | April 17, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The last person hanged in Jamaica died on the gallows in February 1988. You can be assured that it was a very rare occurrence and did not fall in any of the excluded offenders. Jamaica has a number of categories of offenders excluded from the death...

Editorial: CARICOM ripe for Jamaica-T&T alliance

Published:Friday | April 17, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The Trinidadians may now be too distracted campaigning for their general election, due next month. But immediately after that vote, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller should immediately engage that country's new PM, whether it is the incumbent,...

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