On October 30, 2006, Britons who turned to Channel 5 got an unexpected eyeful. A man and woman were having sex on the telly. Not movie sex. Not simulated sex. Real, unadulterated, bed-pounding, Negril-vacation sex...
The prime minister (PM), Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller, has given me hope. By ordering that this country end its role as the horse in the idiot merry-go-round with Energy World International (EWI), she has shown that she meant what she said when...
Before you feel impelled by the headline alone to call any of your friends to tell them "Mi know lang taim seh dah bway Chizam a wolf inna sheep cloze im ah reptobate [read reprobate]" take the time to read the whole column carefully and think....
When Phillip Paulwell addresses Parliament today, his backbone will, hopefully, not require stiffening by constituents baying intimidatingly at legislators.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics, usually to bolster weak arguments, and without which they cannot hold water or withstand any significant...
The following is a response to an article entitled 'Prejudice fuels denial of rights for gays', by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.Please allow me the opportunity to express my concerns about comments published...
One of the best-known Bible verses is Luke 18:16: "But Jesus called unto him, and said, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forgive them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." But, for some reason, the Vatican, the 'head office'...
One of the best-known Bible verses is Luke 18:16: "But Jesus called unto him, and said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God'."
In the face of the outcry against his proposed tax on banking transactions, Peter Phillips, the finance minister, now proposes to raise most of the foregone $2.5 billion by applying the general consumption tax (GCT) to premiums paid by Jamaican...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has taken note of a full-page advertisement published in the Gleaner on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, a press conference convened by selected stakeholders of the Negril community on the...
I always get a nauseating feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I hear a news anchor announce, "Jamaicans will pay more..." This preface is usually followed by announcements of increases in fuel prices, food items, taxes, government services...
Many times people will hear the word 'curse' and refrain from thinking about it much less discussing it. But one thing that we must recognise is that curses are real....
The decision of the private sector and civil-society groups to opt out of the committee that was monitoring the implementation of the 381-megawatt power plant underlines the crisis into which that economically strategic project has plunged and the urgency with which Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller must act to rescue Jamaica's reputation and to formulate an alternative to this failed enterprise.
NETSERV, Cuban light bulb, Energy World International (EWI), coal to natural gas - all common to Phillip Paulwell, in some shape or form. He was the minister in charge, as distinct from the state minister, regarding the Cuban light bulb matter.
My taxi man Pablo thinks he has the solution to our taxation woes. He's proposing that the Government impose a flat-rate income tax of $30,000 per year on all those small-business operators who are slipping through the net. That's less than $100 per day.
I respond here to an article in the Saturday Gleaner of March 22, 2014 on the Negril Beach rejuvenation. First, the scientific and engineering challenges and solutions for addressing the beach erosion will be discussed. I will then shed some light on concerns being marketed by special-interest groups.
As predicted, the withdrawal levy was scuttled. The proposal was far too sensible to survive our political grudge-match system, and so threats of street protests helped kill it off properly.
Even in the face of fiscal stress, education has to remain a major priority of Government. And a government that gives short shrift to education is undermining a crucial building block of the country's future prosperity.
The “uncertainty, unease and despair about the future of our country” (Andrew Holness, 2014) that seems to be especially common among our young people is palpable.
The Editor, Sir; In an article published in The Sunday Gleaner on April 20, 2014, titled 'Rejected - Portland stakeholders say no to provisional plan to govern development...
For once, I agree with Minister Phillip Paulwell. Wednesday's Gleaner quotes him as stating that: "If we are patriotic, we must see that what has happened with the IDB as a damnation on our country."
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has an urgent decision to make. And she has only a single option. She must, as this newspaper has advised, and private-sector leaders have reinforced, demand of her energy minister...
We have heard nothing, neither from the Office of Utilities Regulation nor the energy minister, Phillip Paulwell, that causes us to alter the positions declared yesterday regarding the future of the 381MW electricity-generating project, for which a...
