The most cynical among us may well be predicting that Garnett Roper and Colin Campbell will soon give up and that things will return to normal at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), which is to say rampant thievery and indiscipline at the company.
A.J. Nicholson's flexi-rape comment in the Upper House of Parliament last Friday was a genuine attempt at humour. The trouble is, nothing about rape can be humorous.
The new commissioner of police, Dr Carl Williams, is being urgently summoned to Olympic Gardens in St Andrew. Many of the good people of the community who are genuinely productive and gainfully employed are urgently in need of a protective asylum.
THE EDITOR, Sir: Coming fast on the heels of the recently held IMF seminar dubbed 'Women, Work and the Jamaican Economy', the Government named an 18-member Labour Reform Commission.
THE EDITOR, Sir: We are all disturbed by the recent premature ending of West Indies Cricket Board's (WICB) tour of India by its senior team and the consequences being faced as a result.
We seek him here, we seek him there, we seek him everywhere. Millions of people seek god through prayer every day. But is the efficacy of prayer a form of self-delusion? And which god?
THE EDITOR, Sir: In early 2012, the leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives made it clear that order and decorum would be a major feature of the new Parliament.
THE EDITOR, Sir: I believe that there are unconfirmed reports from the largest cruise ship company in the world, Carnival Cruise, that it will be moving its business away from Ocho Rios to Falmouth because of increased tourist harassment.
Americans will today hold their midterm elections – choosing members of the House and Senate, and state governors. The run-up to these contests has seen a wholesale abandonment of Barack Obama by many of the prospective candidates, as if he had the Ebola virus and needed to be quarantined politically.
After initially refusing to comment on his egregiously high telephone bills, Arnaldo Brown eventually posted the following on Facebook: "I understand the public concern over telephone expenses incurred during the period July 2013 to June 2014.
In April, I put aside apathy and got enumerated, determined to vote in the next election. Some took that action to be a clear stance in opposition to the ruling party. I was labelled by some as a Labourite.
THE EDITOR, Sir: In response to Michael Abrahams' online column of Monday, November 3, 2014 titled 'Chikungunya: we were warned', it is such a crying shame that the Government of Jamaica is not doing more to prevent the spread of this virus.
Something has struck us strange about the response of Jamaica to the Ebola epidemic in the cluster of West African countries: a seeming lack of empathy and an apparent unwillingness to help.
The phrase 'eat a food' is the euphemism for earning money or making a living by any means possible. It's often used by people who are either genuinely in desperate need of money to meet their basic needs or by people who want to convey that impression to others for whatever reason.
THE EDITOR, Sir: In the area where I live, water came back after 7 o'clock Sunday morning. On some mornings, when there is work and school to get ready for, it comes back after 6 o'clock.
THE EDITOR, Sir: It seems that there are two types of drivers when it comes to green filter lights, and I encounter both of them frequently. Quite frankly, both of them are just as frustrating.
