Commentary

On February 18, 2014) I watched 'Live @ Seven' on CVM TV as the host, Simon Crosskill, discussed rural challenges for the disabled.

I am in Trinidad. It is hot and dry. The roads are crowded. The murder rate is high. The nights are noisy. It is a silly season beyond reason, adequate description and financial sanity. It is carnival time.

The Government is in disarray over the logistics hub the Chinese propose to build on the Goat Islands...

Omar Davies would have required no great insight to anticipate the antagonism that greeted his disclosure that a coal-fired power plant is part of the proposed Chinese port and logistics facility for the Goat Islands/Portland Bight area of Jamaica's...

This is an open letter to Dr Omar Davies, minister of transport and works.We have read your statement to Parliament on February 25, 2014 on the proposal for China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to construct a port and industrial park in the Portland...

Cindy Breakspeare, former Miss World and mother of a child fathered by Bob Marley, spoke about her relationship with Marley, a Rastafarian, and said, 'Once again, was that word, religion - full of rules and regulations - just what I wanted to be free...

WE CAN hardly fault the discipline with which the Portia Simpson Miller administration has, over the past year, attended to Jamaica's fiscal affairs.Its prudence was again on display this week with a revised Budget, tabled by the finance minister...

I read with immense interest the news article on February 24, 2014, 'Weed time - Paulwell hints at clearer days for ganja this year'...

The news of the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) exoneration of Veronica Campbell-Brown on technical issues has put back on the agenda the reform of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) and the need for it to provide updates on how far it...

Recently, I sent readers a domino quiz. My hand was six-five, six-four, six-blank, five-four, four-deuce, five-deuce, double four.

We have long supported and championed the call for a commission of enquiry into the events in Tivoli Gardens of May 2010 and, in particular, the circumstances under which at least 76 persons were killed.Earl Witter, the public defender, in an interim...

An economic growth strategy that focuses on economic fundamentals (such as balanced budgets and low inflation) may not solve every economic problem a poor country has to face, but it is the best strategy for achieving long-term growth.