Commentary

I can't imagine why you would "hope for much" from someone who loves to latch on to "populist causes", who loves the "limelight" and "martyrdom", who is "rude", a "distraction", a "hindrance", etc., and then devote an editorial to facilitate those desires. It sounds contradictory.

This is an open letter to Tax Administration Jamaica.

The justice system in America is being held up to ridicule around the world in light of how it continues to treat police killings of unarmed black men.

It is beyond me in identifying the reason for the Government's abuse of power in what looks to be the ripping off of members of a productive sector of our society for some time now.

Since Friday, November 29, about 5 p.m., I have been greeted by this recording on my Digicel phone: "Your call is being made through an invalid route. Please contact your service provider. You are being charged for this call."

Please permit me space to level a complaint against the International University of the Caribbean (IUC) in light of the article 'IOUs From IUC - Staff cries foul, as university struggles to pay but administration promises to fix shortly' published in The Sunday Gleaner, August 24, 2014. Up to the time of penning this letter on December 4, IUC has failed to honour its promise to 'fix it'.

When I was in my salad days and very green in judgement, I was often accused of being too 'manish', a term reserved for those of us whose urinary outpourings had not yet been so shaken by life's vicissitudes and veracities that they had started to form or contain a rising or overflowing mass of small bubbles.

There is still time for things to go awry, but Sir David Simmons' chairmanship of the west Kingston commission of enquiry, thus far, inspires confidence in us that it will be fair and that any failure to arrive at the truth of the events of May 2010 won't be for an absence of effort on his part.

In Gordon House, debate has begun on a motion to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as Jamaica's final court of appeal, replacing the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council.