Commentary

On Friday, Steve Samuels, chairman of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast, was interviewed on RJR by Dionne Jackson Miller along with guests Mustafa Mohammed of the Islamic Council and Lipton Matthews.

There has been quite a bit of debate in recent times about the age of our politicians and the dire need for political parties to make room for younger persons - a kind of changing of the old guard.

THERE IS much to admire about the president of the Senate, Floyd Emerson Morris. His ascension to one of the most important offices in the land is an inspirational story that serves to reaffirm the belief that with an able mind and stores of determination, a man can reshape what initially appears to be his life's destiny.

Your recently published Letter of the Day ('Hit rogue media houses in their pockets') January 19, 2015 makes some very important points about the need for stiffer penalties and especially financial sanctions against those broadcast media houses that...

A little bit of Latin always raises the tone of an article, so here (with thanks to the classical correspondent of The Observer) is a sentence that may prove useful to Pope Francis: "agite tentateque si fortiores vos putatis". It means: "Come on then, if you think you're hard enough."

Justin Felice may be gone but his legacy lives on. Deputy Commissioner Glenmore Hinds came out swinging against lawyers and, according to The Gleaner ('Police official knocks lawyers for resisting POCA scrutiny', December 12, 2014), referred to the Bar Association's exercise of its constitutional right to file a lawsuit as "efforts to block more effective money-laundering legislation".