THE EDITOR, Sir:The value a school adds to its students is a significant concern for many Jamaicans - from the minister of education whose mandate it is to ensure that our schools are providing the...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The University of Technology Academic Staff Union (UTASU), the University of Technology Administrative Staff Association (UTASA) and the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) that represent technical and ancillary staff at UTech...
Damien King, the University of the West Indies economist, is right about the boulders in the road impeding Jamaica's economy - none larger and more demanding than the near J$2-trillion debt and the fiscal deficit that it spawns....
A few years ago, I had a chat with an Olympic medallist. I had called for an interview on radio and ended up spending maybe an hour just being blown away with what I was being told. She was telling me about the difficulties associated with honing...
Today, Adidja Palmer, better known as Vybz Kartel and Di Teacha, should hear what the sentence is for the conviction of murdering his former associate Clive 'Lizard' Williams.
THE EDITOR, Sir: I doubt that anything will make a stronger or more poignant statement on our country's moral culture and social fabric than the weeks of trial and subsequent verdict of renowned dancehall artiste ...
If the Government has the guts to stay the course of its admittedly tough fiscal reforms, Jamaica will have gone a substantial distance in dragging itself out of the economic mess in which it has...
Many of us seem to think that only people living with HIV (PLHIV) have a responsibility in a sexual relationship where protection from HIV transmission is concerned...
Taxi drivers provide an essential service to the public, and are a much-needed alternative to the horrid public transport system.Most taxi drivers are a decent lot, but over the years they have been feared and reviled because...
It's filthy, brilliant, ex-hilarating and I love it. It caters to base emotions, is un-inspiring, lacks substance, is brain-numbingly repetitive, makes a virtue out of getting involved in conflict, mocks fidelity, endorses polygamy...
A scourge has swept our great nation. A disgusting way of living has infiltrated our homes and churches, perverting the minds of even our precious children. At the heart of this wicked, sinful behaviour is a particular segment of society ...
Dancehall dulls the senses, poisons mindsWhen Minister of National Security Peter Bunting asked for divine intervention in Jamaica's crime situation, he could not have anticipated the speed and nature of the intervention.
Immediately after last week's column ('Married men are pirates') appeared, I received another letter from a legal firm:Dear Mr RobinsonWe represent your wife and, through her, all self-respecting married women.
There is little to fault the Simpson Miller administration, particularly its finance minister, Peter Phillips, for the zeal with which it has gone about the fiscal reforms required under Jamaica's economic support agreement with the International...
On March 20, 2014 the Jamaica Observer ran an article titled 'Several Changes to GSAT in 2015'. The article quoted the Minister of Education, Ronald Thwaites as saying that come 2015, "the science and the social studies papers are going to have less....
When I was in high school, I made an interesting observation about the fairer sex: women love bad boys. I can recall being around boys discussing girls in demeaning ways, talking about feeling them up and getting ‘piece’ off o’ them and I would chime...
I enjoy a wide variety of musical genre. I know some of the songs performed by Mr Adidja Azim Palmer (Vybz Kartel). It is obvious that he is very talented and prolific. He writes lyrics for himself ...
Where are our Jamaican parents? While it is true that many of our Jamaican parents are at present active and involved in their children's lives, the harsh reality is that many are missing in action, parenting from a distance.With due respect to my...
Judging from the tone of the report of the committee that probed the problems at the University of Technology (UTech), Errol Morrison, the institution's president, is a tyrannical leader, enabled by a compliant university council - its overarching...
