It seems that the minister of justice, Mark Golding, has caught the bug. On Thursday, June 12, I heard him on the radio announce the Government's intention to decriminalise the possession and use of small quantities of ganja, and describe it as a 'human rights issue'.
Mark Golding, the justice minister, hasn't said much on the matter, at least in public, in the four months since he outlined in the Senate the administration's plan for the reform of the Court Management Services, the body that was launched four years...
THE EDITOR, Sir:China's emergence as an economic and geopolitical power has changed the global as well as regional balance of power and her declared goal of reviving the old Silk Route and its desire to establish connectivity and trade with its western...
Carolyn Gomes has long lectured public officials about the value of taking responsibility and of the decent thing to do when the acts for which they are held to account breach declared or implied policy, bring their organisations into disrepute, or are...
It has been more than half a year since the career diplomat, Luis G. Moreno, was earmarked by President Barack Obama to become America's ambassador to Jamaica to replace Pamela Bridgewater.
Like Foreign Minister A.J. Nicholson, we welcome the lifting of the ban on membership of Cuban diplomats to the American retail club, PriceSmart. For that restriction perhaps not only breached international conventions...
We've all seen a rat in a glue trap. An awesome and gruesome sight, watching a living creature struggle against the inevitability of death. At first, it is certain of its escape, and tries to rip itself loose. But that only entangles it further in the lethal paste. ...
In The Sunday Gleaner of June 15, 2014, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) president, Dr Mark Nicely, raised questions about the method used by the Ministry of Education to place textbooks on the supplementary master...
The present Government is leading the recovery of our economy and is creating a platform for positive and lasting change that will go beyond the lifetime of many of us.
This is a submission from the 51% Coalition.The 51% Coalition issued a release in this paper on September 30, 2012 and responded to some of the same assertions put forward by Aujae Dixon ('Quotas in politics are unconstitutional', June 11, 2014)...
Equity in the public education system will require a broad commitment from the society, including the major stakeholders, parents, teachers, students and Government.Access to the best of the system must be available to all...
I might as well admit it. I've had a huge crush on Olympian Juliet Cuthbert ever since 1992 when I watched her run her heart out in the 100m finals in Barcelona...
The liquor trolley in my childhood home was always full. Gilbey's Gin, Smirnoff Vodka, Johnnie Walker Whiskey, Appleton and Wray & Nephew rum, and various wines. You name it, it was there. Red Stripe Beer and Dragon Stout were often in the refrigerator...
We appreciate Foreign Minister A.J.Nicholson's statement of the Jamaican Government's inability to force Barbados to honour the judgment by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the Shanique Myrie case...
It is significantly clear that when Father's Day comes around, not as much effort and excitement are generated in comparison to Mother's Day. Not a lot is done to honour the fathers....
Last Thursday, I watched one of the better programmes I have seen to date dealing with education, on Impact With Cliff Hughes. The teacher from Immaculate, Ms Castriota, was quite candid, for the most part, in acknowledging that the successful outcomes...
Many years ago, someone whom I knew very well worked for a large business entity that produced an essential product. The business needed to increase its net profit, so he was commissioned to find a way to do so...
Mark Nicely, it is now clear, is infected by the virus that attacks anyone who, in recent years, has led the teachers' union, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA).Its main symptoms are crooked thinking, unreasonableness and a consistent effort at...
FOLLOWING THE publication of the statistics produced by think tank Educatejamaica.org, based on the 2013 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), many are calling for a revamp of all aspects of our...
There are few things in life more satisfying than tracin' smaddy off. Releasing the dark emotions that are impossible to eliminate, but which civility ordinarily requires us to contain, can be oddly satisfying.
The devil, they say, is in the details. In that regard, we await the specifics of the legislative amendments promised by the justice minister, Mark Golding, to decriminalise the use of marijuana, or, as we call it in Jamaica, ganja.
