Commentary

A common question that is usually asked of our Jamaican children is, "What do you want to become in life?" Traditionally, the responses would be lawyer, doctor, teacher, policeman or policewoman...

The US$36.85-million performance bond belatedly posted by Energy World International (EWI) on the 381-megawatt power plant it is to build and operate in Jamaica should be immediately returned, the current process abandoned, and the Government return to...

Mama P, by the time you read this (and contrary to what some snigger and say, I know you read the papers), you would've already made your contribution to the 2014-2015 Budget Debate.Given that you are under no illusions about where your strengths lie...

What a 'preckeh' my simple critique of CTL's exorbitant expenditure on equine pool fencing and unnecessary barriers at the racetrack's entrance seems to have created.Why the vitriol? The latest relay runner to pick up the baton is Commander Stacey Lee...

Describing the failure to get the long-languishing Fisheries Act tabled in Parliament during the last fiscal year as the greatest disappointment of his political career, Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke then goes on to insult the intelligence...

There goes Peter Phillips again, shafting us with his big package. Tax package, that is.
The recently announced withdrawal tax has got to be one of the most unpopular and reviled economic measure ...

From time to time, we will hear people say, "How can he be a Christian and he's carrying a gun?" or "How can he be a pastor and he's carrying a gun?" Some would respond, "That's not right?"...

THE EDITOR, Sir:The newly announced tax measure, particularly the tax on bank withdrawals, has drawn the usually unfortunate first response of too many in our society: attack, attack, attack.Too often, we attack without careful thought from all angles.

Last Wednesday, April 23, was the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare.

I won't rehearse the arguments about the likely minuscule impact of this controversial withdrawal levy on most people, how necessary it is to fund the Government, or how it's very well designed to skilfully avoid negatively impacting the poor.

In elections gone by, I was completely apathetic. I had never exercised my franchise to vote because, frankly, I never felt that any party was worthy of my vote. Having lived under both regimes, I didn't see where either had performed sufficiently well enough, and I was not about to vote in mediocrity.

As the debate rages regarding the Government's proposal for the implementation of a withdrawal tax, there continue to be strong objections.