A few years ago I visited Florida and spent eight days travelling between Ford Lauderdale and Orlando, making several stops and detours along the way...
It is time for Phillip Paulwell, the minister with responsibility for mining, to come clean about the state of Jamaica's bauxite/alumina industry and set the basis for a rational discussion about the future of the sector.He should start by conceding the...
Paula Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), has made a revelation that ought to be of grave concern to Jamaican citizens who believe they enjoy protection from malicious or whimsical prosecution by private interests and from dangers these may pose to their liberty.
I read this morning that fines for speeding tickets are set to jump by up to 300%, but there is behaviour on the roads that probably should attract the death penalty.
Let's be clear about something. Corruption is the root cause of much carnage on Jamaican roads and can be blamed for the loss of scores of lives each year. It is an open secret that driver's licences can be bought, traffic cops can be bribed, and motor vehicles can be passed as fit at various depots without undergoing any examination in Jamaica.
An assessment of the impact of Hurricane Ivan on Jamaica by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) in 2004 stated, "The event's direct damage and indirect losses amount to eight per cent of the country's current GDP in 2003 (almost J$36,000 million, or US$580 million)."
It has been proposed that punishments for offences under the Road Traffic Act are to be increased substantially. This will have no effect whatsoever, I submit, with the exception of further alienating the public whose perception of roadside corruption lingers despite many convictions.
One of the most valuable things I learnt in high school was the strategic game of chess. The best chess players think four, five, six and more moves ahead, predicting what their opponent is going to do. The great chess players ...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The Gleaner's pro-gay agenda is now fully established by way of its constant editorialising upon related issues; evidencing clearly that the newspaper is fully on board with the gay lobby, but done in the guise of a so-called...
Paula Llewellyn is given to asserting her commitment to the doctrine of fairness and the prevention of prosecutorial overreach in the conduct of her job as the country's chief criminal prosecutor.But Ms Llewellyn has not only verbalised these ideas; she...
Over the course of the next few weeks, like many other addicts, I will be in sports heaven. The World Cup will be upon us in another week or so. The NBA finals would have started last night, and in another two days, the West Indies will be starting another Test series.
Stripped to its core, marriage, in law, is a contract between two persons - in Jamaica's case, a man and a woman - who agree, broadly, to pool their assets and, usually, live together.
It is unimaginable that an important piece of our history as the Ward Theatre, which was built in 1912 by Charles James Ward, the custos of Kingston, is left to shamefully highlight and remind us of our negligence, with its shabby appearance.
With reference to your headline article, 'Solar power risk' in The Gleaner Tuesday, June 3, I think that our policy decisions in relation to electricity should be based on long-term considerations, such as the amount of foreign exchange spent on fossil fuels, and the threat of global warming, rather than on return on investments.
Recently, I visited Myrtle Chung, a shut-in member of Boulevard Baptist Church, who lives on Tucker Avenue. She told me that she knew Sir Alexander Bustamante, national hero, who, on occasions, attended the Boulevard Baptist Church.
I have just logged in to the West Indies Cricket Board website to view its latest press release on the relocation from Guyana of the third West Indies-New Zealand Test match, scheduled for June 26-30, 2014...
The world's No. 1 sport takes centre stage next week in Brazil, but No. 2 only relinquished it last week in Bangalore. The Indian Premier League ended on Sunday, and the maharajah of cricket tournaments again brought the largest stars...
In a speech to civil servants last week, Prime Minister (PM) Portia Simpson Miller made two little-noticed statements which, unless we read too much into them, could have profound implications for the structure and management of the bureaucracy...
The man readies himself. Every time he has to return to the community in which he grew up, he has to fasten his temperance out of fear that something may happen during the visit that may cause him to let it slip...
