That the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) needs economic policy heft is obvious.Which is why we have been urging its leader, Andrew Holness, to appoint a strategy team to shore up his own efforts and those of his shadow finance minister, Audley Shaw.
Is it never a good time to pay tribute to the woman? To acknowledge her strength, resilience, compassion, acute intelligence and ability to assimilate information from various, even conflicting sources, and yet be able to make a decision to which all...
Even non-lawyers know that though an accused person need not utter a word in her defence - since the burden of proof is almost always on the prosecution - that right to silence could be read as 'guilty silence'...
Two months ago, I rose at 5:30 a.m., as usual, pottered around as The Old Ball and Chain pretended to sleep until her prescribed hour for waking; turned on the computer; and, at 6:15 on the dot, dressed, like Tony Soprano, in my pajamas with robe...
In all likelihood, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (CPC), the agency charged with policing the integrity of government employees, has begun to prepare its report for the 2013-14 financial year.Their findings are predictable.Great swathes...
It is thought that 'shh' is a 19th-century variant of 'hush'. It's not even a word, it's a sound. I find it ironic that such a quiet sound can speak so loudly about the kind of society that we live in...
The present furore regarding the sex education course in some children's homes has opened up a debate about sex education for our children. What is age appropriate? How much details should be given? Should oral and anal sex be mentioned? Should sex education even be taught?
Few things she has said have resonated with Jamaicans as much as Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's pledge in her inauguration address to lead a government that was "vigilant in eliminating corruption".
I think there is enormous worldly wisdom contained in what most emotionally healthy Jamaicans have as their core reaction to this recent onslaught of gaydom: "'Low dem mek dem gwaan ...
The presentation of arguments and counterarguments surrounding the delivery of age-inappropriate sex education materials to Jamaica's most vulnerable group of children is skewed and unfortunate.
While she was executive director of Jamaicans for Justice, Dr Carolyn Gomes - a paediatrician by training - helped to introduce a comprehensive sexual education manual into some of the island's children's homes.
Jamaican bananas are back in British supermarkets after a five-year absence. An overly pleased Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke made the announcement earlier this week. The local industry was almost decimated by a series of powerful storms in 2008.
'Number portability by end of year' was title of the story carried in The Gleaner on March 6, 2014, in which it reported State Minister Julian Robinson as saying that, by November to December, number portability would be implemented first with mobile numbers, and fixed lines coming on stream in the following year.
I went to the Piarco Airport in Trinidad two Fridays ago, expecting to fly home to Antigua via Barbados. What I never anticipated was an almost two-hour detour to the unlikeliest and yet most welcome of places - Memory Lane.
THE EDITOR, Sir:This is an open letter to the governor general.Your Excellency,I write to ask you to consider stripping Dr Carolyn Gomes of the Order of Merit bestowed upon her in 2009.
I went to one of my usual haunts for a late lunch the other day while on a casual date. As part of my continuing efforts to support the LGBT community, I was wearing my rainbow bracelet, as I do virtually every day...
