Commentary

There is no doubt in my mind that many of our adolescents are ignorant of sexual matters, male and female, heterosexual and gay. I can recall, as a child, that my parents said nothing to me; my older brother, by 10 years, gave me an informed talk and a book to read....

THE EDITOR, Sir: The circus came to town Sunday evening. Led by the Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation (CAUSE) - quite a ridiculous name just to get a sexy acronym ...

While I should ignore the expected blatant bias coming from Delano Franklyn, who is a senior adviser and mouthpiece for the Government, let me set the record straight on several erroneous comments made by him in the In Focus article 'Will JLP 'dream...

Last week's 'bite of the week' has got to be Uruguay's Luis Suarez attempting to take a chunk out of Italy's Giorgio Chiellini's left shoulder during their World Cup encounter.

Yet another Buy Jamaican campaign has been launched. The Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, left with few tools to shield Jamaica's producers from the inhospitable conditions of Jamaica's economic environment, has resorted to the oft-repeated strategy to wean Jamaicans off import dependence and lead them to consume locally produced goods.

As we said in the immediate aftermath of its launch, Andrew Holness' Economic Advisory Council is a move in the right direction for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). In the two and a half years since its return to Opposition, the party has been unable to articulate a coherent set of economic policies, much more a strategy for their implementation.

It has been said that no one forgives more quickly and forgets more completely than a sports fan. And for superstars, the period of annoyance for any wrongdoing is shorter than for the average athlete.

People in the private sector and the parliamentary Opposition may well be suffering from mistaken priorities, or misplaced expectations, with regard to Christine Lagarde's visit to Jamaica.For based on the pronouncements of the economic thinkers of the...

I have said and written before that one of the subplots to this World Cup was how Lionel Messi would play. Would he do enough to convince the doubting Thomases...

The fact that it is underfunded provides a rampart behind which those who run the Jamaica Fire Brigade can, and are likely to, easily find cover in the face of the performance audit that publicly revealed the woeful state of the emergency services...

Unexpected results such as former champions Spain, Italy and England not making it to the second round...