Commentary

What in the world happened to the Manchester Local Sustainable Parish Development Plan (LSPD) of 2008? The plan, articulated in a 595-page document, was developed in 2006 and completed in 2008 through funding provided by...

When the moral and social fabrics of a nation are being worn away by crime, lack of good governance, lack of solutions, a battered economy, and the poor state of our youth, we don't need one more survey or feasibility study...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), founded in 1948 in France and housed in the pristine village of Gland, Switzerland, has weighed in on the Goat Islands issue. Now here come the big guns to tell us everything we never needed to know about their airy-fairy carbon sequestration, but not a word about feeding, housing, educating and providing jobs for our human resources.

When I saw the title of the talk Cindy Breakspeare was going to give at the University of the West Indies, Mona, two Thursdays ago, I questioned her judgement: 'Beauty and the Beast: A Bridge to the Natural Mystic'. I wondered why Cindy was reviving that tired, old image of herself and Bob Marley after almost four decades.

Sometimes just a decent headline can indicate that it's going to be a good day. Well, I enjoyed The Gleaner's 'Men stick with Gal in a Bungle', which came above some interesting findings by the Family Planning Board.

There is more profoundly distressing news emerging from places of state care where sexual violence appears to be a part of everyday living.

Owen Ellington, Jamaica's police chief, has talked about few things nearly as much as the constabulary's need for special legislation with which to confront the island's criminal gangs, which are blamed for as much as 80 per cent of the country's crime...

Jamaica is one of the most unequal countries in the world. A recent World Bank Report ranked Jamaica 114th out of 156 countries in the world in terms of income inequality...

ASSUMING WE correctly deciphered Devon Rowe's verbal encryption before Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, the Government is facing a $9.3-billion revenue shortfall on its 2014-2015 Budget.

The country recorded 41 students murdered in 2013. Since 2014 has commenced, three students were murdered; two in St Elizabeth and one in St Thomas....

The House of Representatives is a curious place. Contrary to what many who are too lazy to follow the weekly proceedings will quickly allege, much important business, conducted by ladies and gentlemen, happens there on Tuesday afternoons...

I'm glad for the Johnson GSAT Survey commissioned and published by The Gleaner. I have heard many sides to the story and am gladder for those still.