Commentary

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.

I read somewhere that the word 'politics' is really two words and not one, something like 'harass'.

Towards the end of 1999, I had a public run-in with then minister of housing, Easton Douglas. He announced his scheme to build a housing complex - the 172-unit Hope Country Club - in partnership with a private developer, on the Hope Gardens compound, next to the zoo.

The article in the Jamaica Observer a few days ago read 'God's on our side'. To suggest that God was somehow on the Jamaica College football team's side was, in itself, a fascinating concept.

We welcome Julian Robinson's clarification that his task force on electricity theft did not wither and, in fact, had a hand in the design of a pilot project in seven inner-city communities, by Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) and the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), to find a solution to the problem.

There ought to be in Jamaica a new and deeper respect for the character of A.J. Nicholson, the long-serving legislator who is leader of government business in the Senate and also the island's foreign minister.

It pains my heart and disturbs me to see how some Jamaicans can become so enraged and belligerent in circumstances, with the hope of achieving instant gratification, to the point where they find it justified to carry out extrajudicial actions and injure or take the life of another; a criminal act which is commonly referred to as jungle justice.