Commentary

Vybz Kartel's fans have gone on to the American government's website (petitions.whitehouse.gov) to petition Barack Obama for a retrial. I think an enterprising comedian could interview the originator of the petition, and the thousands of signatories, to great effect. What, I wonder, are they thinking?

Mi heart full. So mi no have no space fi 'prapa-prapa' spelling dis ya week. A pure 'chaka-chaka'. First to begin wid, mi ha fi seh sorry to all a unu weh a practice fi read an write Jamaican proper.

Keeping children away from cigarettes was the aim of Wednesday's Kick Butts Day, which is observed annually round the world.

The West Indies will start their defence of the World Twenty20 title this weekend, and from where I sit, the maroon men are still the team to beat in this format....

Crimea is going to be part of Russia, and there is nothing anybody else can do about it. The petty sanctions that the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are currently imposing have been discounted in advance by Moscow...

It's a shame we continue to have such scant regard for people's right to life; unless, of course, we consider them 'important' enough to privilege them with our concern, so much so that the course of justice is dependent on titles...

BY WITHDRAWING from the commission of enquiry into the Tivoli Gardens affair, Velma Hylton has not only shifted the focus from herself, but placed the burden on the Opposition to behave responsibly...

Over the last six weeks, many readers have engaged my essays, but a minority have hurled a self-defeating response: "If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all!"But they've got it exactly backwards.

Greg Christie, the former contractor general whose cacophonous investigations and strident reports discomfited many public officials, often complained that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions...

A married man's life is a caricature of a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder.Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!Men are simple creatures.

The goodly Dr Lascelve Graham claims to have done "extensive" research on the issue of school transfers, so he must be aware of the genesis of the ISSA decisions...

Two years ago, early in the current administration's term in government, and coincidental to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's guest editorship of this newspaper, we encouraged Jamaica's political parties to set themselves targets "to significantly...