Commentary

Robin Williams was one of my favourite actors and comedians. I loved his television and film work, and his stand-up performances would literally leave me on the floor in stitches. His demise is a tragic loss to the entertainment fraternity.

Mario Deane was in police custody at the time of his injury, so there can be no question that the police were responsible for his safety.

We have been doing the same thing as it relates to 'the fight against crime' and expecting a different result for a few decades now.

I was in the audience with the guests at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort on August 6, and enjoyed a wonderful performance by Ashe celebrating our culture. The all-Jamaican cast of musicians and performers kept the audience spellbound throughout their presentation.

I listened with amusement recently to manufacturer Omar Azan and economist Damien King go at it over an article Mr King wrote ('JMA pushing a Trojan horse', Sunday Gleaner, August 10, 2014) chastising the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) for asking for too many freebies from the Government.

I am in the communication business, and one of the axioms that I try to impress on my students is that 'you cannot not communicate'. We each tend to think that we are the centre of the world and that we are all really good communicators, so that if mistakes happen, they are not our fault.

On August 3, 2014, my daughter ordered food at Scotchie's in St Ann and her bill was $640. She gave them a combination of paper and coinage, including four 25-cent coins, totalling $640 exactly. She was told that they do not take 'red money'.

If it is true that former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington was forced to leave the police force over police abuse of human rights on his watch, who will now be forced to go over the death of Mario Deane in police custody?I do not believe that one...

We were tempted to join Ronald Thwaites, the education minister, in a few whoops over Jamaica's performance in this year's secondary schools examination results...

Undoubtedly, any reader who is unfamiliar with the news reports of a young man who was brutally beaten and later succumbed to his injuries upon looking at the heading of this article would struggle to make the connection.

Recently, when Brian Pengelley began his fourth, and what he said would be his final, term as president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA), we urged him to make it count.We are reminded by that bit of advice in the face of the response by...

If it hadn't been for my sixth-grade teacher, I probably would have never spelled correctly in Spanish...