As anyone with commonsensical understanding of business or economics could have predicted, the Government's Jamaica Employ initiative has atrophied and died.
A popular member of parliament (MP) was recently burnt by criticism by a leviathan in modern media about the quality of his intervention in a recent heated debate in the House of Representatives...
High-fives all around. Thanks to our dogged persistence, homophobia is now part of our global brand, a little smear of hate across smiling images of Tessanne, Shelly-Ann, Laurie-Ann and the gang. While America and Europe move with haste towards equality...
The weeklong swing through the Caribbean and Latin America, including Cuba and Nicaragua, by Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has seemingly merited little attention by this region's political and economic pundits.
Let me take this opportunity to dissuade Gordon Robinson, and those of like mind, of the opinion that Nationwide News Network (NNN) may be going over a 'cliff'.NNN is stronger than it has ever been since its inception almost 10 years ago.I did not build...
A popular member of parliament (MP) was recently burnt by criticism by a leviathan in modern media about the quality of his intervention in a recent heated debate in the House of Representatives...
High-fives all around. Thanks to our dogged persistence, homophobia is now part of our global brand, a little smear of hate across smiling images of Tessanne, Shelly-Ann, Laurie-Ann and the gang. While America and Europe move with haste towards equality...
The weeklong swing through the Caribbean and Latin America, including Cuba and Nicaragua, by Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has seemingly merited little attention by this region's political and economic pundits.
Let me take this opportunity to dissuade Gordon Robinson, and those of like mind, of the opinion that Nationwide News Network (NNN) may be going over a 'cliff'.NNN is stronger than it has ever been since its inception almost 10 years ago.I did not build...
What a contrast between the July 14, 2014 letter from M. Browne ('Gay rights are rights for all'), characterised by love, compassion and respect for others, and those in the same edition from Verna Gordon Binns ...
As anyone with commonsensical understanding of business or economics could have predicted, the Government's Jamaica Employ initiative has atrophied and died.
Perhaps yesterday's vote by the English Anglicans in favour of the consecration of female bishops will inspire the church in the Caribbean to do likewise.
Are voice-over Internet-protocol (VoIP) providers (like Viber) the real issue or are they completely innocent bystanders being singled out to take the blame for someone else's mistakes?It is quite understandable why...
The death of all great men and women is an occasion for both sadness and celebration: One, because the living have cause to miss their presence and noble example, the other, because the conscious living rejoice over the enduring benefit of their example.
Stever Robbins is president of Stever Robbins Inc. He describes himself as a "serial entrepreneur" and is a top-10 iTunes business podcaster. What follows is extracted from his 2001 article, 'A CEO job description'...
Just weeks ago, we highlighted the pioneering work of Dennis Daly in human-rights advocacy in Jamaica and urged that he, and another champion of that struggle, Flo O'Connor, be awarded a national honour.
I have been a rabid Brazil football fan for as long as I have been aware of my existence. Watching the World Cup over the years, I have celebrated wildly when Brazil won, and grieved when they lost. ...
As we know, many persons are going through problems left, right and centre. Some are on the verge of giving up, others want to commit suicide. Even teens are falling under the pressure...
No one, including this newspaper, can any longer claim that Angela Brown Burke, the mayor of Kingston, is on to nothing but organising the downtown handcart men, including her stab of having them pay a licence for operating their primitive...
A week ago, Peter-John Gordon, an economics lecturer at the University of the West Indies, published in this newspaper a short primer on real exchange rate and purchasing power parity, in which he substituted an orange for the Big Mac hamburger that is usually used to illustrate the effect of exchange-rate disequilibrium.
I saw a great report on TVJ a few days ago about the World Cup's impact on productivity. When a big match is on, the roads are almost empty, people give work a pause, and businesses make less money. It's not good for GDP. However, people are happier.
Last month, as I listened to Christine Lagarde lecture at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, I felt a rush of old-fashioned feminist pride. Here was a woman who had made it to the top of a decidedly patriarchal institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). And that wasn't all.
