When I awoke on the morning of November 22, 2014, I had no reason to think my day would run counter to any other normal day in a place that I am proud to call my home, a place that I altruistically promote and market: St Ann, Jamaica.
Sometimes there is the letter of the law, then common sense. The people who run the University of Technology (UTech) won't be surprised if there are questions whether they possess the latter and whether they are too far gone for empathy.
Many years ago, I was employed to one of our major hospitals. A patient had come in suffering from multiple fractures. Consequent physiological problems put him in a coma and seriously threatened his life.
Even the most patriotic Jamaican is unable to disavow the reality of the scandalous, 'dutty' politics our governments insist on engaging in every single time they are in power.
Last week in Parliament, at the start of the debate on proposed amendments to Jamaica's Constitution to make the Caribbean Court Justice (CCJ) this country's court of last resort, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller offered a compelling argument for the move.
In 1970, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) formed the Government of Jamaica. At a regional heads of government meeting, the JLP Government proposed the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). There was conceived the organisation that has continued to occupy our thoughts and generate conflicting opinions to this day
Easton Douglas once took up a very big job that's still not finished. I suppose it was much harder than chairing the board of the National Housing Trust. A board of yes-men and -women makes things really easy for a chairman.
Chaka-chaka governmentMost of us have been irked by the now-familiar practice of the National Housing Trust (NHT) funding politically popular programmes that cannot be financed by the Budget.
Last year's Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) Word of the Year was the inspired 'selfie'. The choice perfectly captured a widespread activity (recall that even Mr Obama was part of a selfie at Nelson Mandela's funeral) but also the epidemic of obsessive self-glorification at the heart of much social media.
Last week in Parliament, at the start of the debate on proposed amendments to Jamaica's Constitution to make the Caribbean Court Justice (CCJ) this country's court of last resort, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller offered a compelling argument for the move.
In 1970, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) formed the Government of Jamaica. At a regional heads of government meeting, the JLP Government proposed the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). There was conceived the organisation that has continued to occupy our thoughts and generate conflicting opinions to this day
Easton Douglas once took up a very big job that's still not finished. I suppose it was much harder than chairing the board of the National Housing Trust. A board of yes-men and -women makes things really easy for a chairman.
