Around now, some magazines and newspapers name their 'Man of the Year', or 'Woman of the Year', or 'Person of the Year', who, in their opinion, has been most newsworthy.
The country entered 2015 with many of the familiar challenges that have dogged us for years. However, as an optimistic and mostly God-fearing society, we are buoyed by great hope for our people and our nation.
There must be some kind of clandestine fetish group for young people unbeknown to the more prudish among us. . That, I have concluded, can be the only explanation for the copious amount of pictures of the genitalia of school-age youth and videos of their coitus.
The year 2014 was a challenging year dominated by the disastrous symptoms associated with the chikungunya virus which, according to the Don Anderson poll, affected 87 per cent of Jamaicans. However, the good news of the year was 26-year-old Alia Atkinson's achievements against great odds.
The official launch of a plastic-bottle recycling plant in the Riverton Meadows area of Kingston this week holds out immense prospects for employment of low-skilled labourers. So far, it employs 12 workers permanently and there are about 50 others who work as collectors.
Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Auto theft has been a major challenge for the Jamaican police over many years. Today the criminal enterprise that has grown out of this lucrative activity is estimated to be worth millions of dollars.
Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Congratulations on this editorial. The ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate is the most urgent issue facing the Roman Catholic Church.
We recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first Summit of the Americas, in Miami, a city that exemplifies the vital connections between the United States (US) and its neighbours in the Western Hemisphere.
I had a captivating conversation with an elderly woman last week. In our talk, she explained away her husband's infidelity with a two-and-a-half year distance between them.
