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Published:Monday | February 3, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Okay, so last year we received more than two million stopover visitors to our little 'island paradise'. But it's not paradise to everyone...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Ezekiel 34: 29 says: And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen anymore.Without a doubt, God created plants, herbs and...

Published:Sunday | February 2, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Jamaica Stock Exchange's 2014 Capital Markets Conference in Kingston on investment opportunities from legalising ganja.

Published:Sunday | February 2, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The logistics hub has been placed front and centre to the Jamaican people with even greater emphasis in recent days.

Published:Sunday | February 2, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Two Sundays ago, I went to see Twelve Years A Slave.

Published:Sunday | February 2, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I wish to congratulate your editorial board in respect of the views expressed in two recent editorials in your newspaper and to associate myself with some of the sentiments and positions stated in those editorials.

Published:Sunday | February 2, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Luther Buchanan, who has the title of a minister of state and has a desk at the Office of the Prime Minister, has, we have been told, been given the task of overseeing the improvement of health centres in rural Jamaica.

Published:Saturday | February 1, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Crime and violence continues to be of great concern to us as citizens of our nation. Many citizens, groups and both the prime minister and the opposition leader have mentioned it as a priority matter to be tackled in 2014.

Published:Saturday | February 1, 2014 | 12:00 AM

This is an open letter to the Office of the Commissioner of Police, Jamaica and the head of traffic.

Published:Saturday | February 1, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The membership of the Greater Portmore Joint Council is very alarmed that after the untidy constituency boundary changes which created a dilemma for a vast swathe of Portmore residents, there are recommendations to solve the situation whereby the municipality would be left without a directly elected mayor.

Published:Saturday | February 1, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Once it was believed that the community-policing approach would build partnerships with members of troubled areas of the country in a huge crime-solving, crime-reduction effort.

Published:Saturday | February 1, 2014 | 12:00 AM

'I am.' This is the shortest sentence in the English language. The shortest short story is, 'Two men went for a tramp in the woods. The tramp died.'

Published:Friday | January 31, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There are fewer issues in Jamaica about which we have more double standards than in the area of sexual behaviour...

Published:Friday | January 31, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I seriously disagree with the minister of education, Ronald Thwaites, on the direction he is going with regard to the transfer of students with special sports skills.The minister, no doubt, means well, and is clearly operating on the premise that high...

Published:Friday | January 31, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The announcement that Sagicor Group Jamaica will acquire the Jamaica operations of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is another example of Sagicor CEO Richard Byles putting his - or investors' - money where his mouth is.For Mr Byles has been busy recently...

Published:Friday | January 31, 2014 | 12:00 AM

This is an open letter to Albert Gordon, the director general of the Office of Utilities Regulation.In your response to my letter dated January 13, 2014, you confirmed that "the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has received information pertaining ...

Published:Thursday | January 30, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Research, Planning and Legal Services Branch should be commended for producing the March 2012 study, 'Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates in Jamaica'.

Published:Thursday | January 30, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:No one wants to be associated with an educational institution labelled as a prison school.

Published:Thursday | January 30, 2014 | 12:00 AM

AUDLEY SHAW'S return to the Opposition's front bench is, politically, potentially good for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and its leader, Andrew Holness.What it means for rational economic policy ...

Published:Thursday | January 30, 2014 | 12:00 AM

It is rather curious that most of the road-safety campaigns - at least the ones I have seen - have overwhelming focus on motor vehicles and not pedestrians, who constitute the highest number of road-crash fatalities....

Published:Wednesday | January 29, 2014 | 12:00 AM

It had to happen. And it has. A dancehall performer has won the race for being the first member of the local entertainment fraternity to make a music video featuring live sex. What makes Ricky Carty's video ...

Published:Wednesday | January 29, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:The ongoing discussion in the media concerning the report put out by the police indicates a fundamental problem which arises whenever we discuss matters to do with education.We refuse to realise that consistent trends in outcomes tend to...

Published:Wednesday | January 29, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The plan by some units of the police to wear body cameras during operations is a good one. But Peter Bunting, the national security minister, must avoid the wont of Jamaican...

Published:Wednesday | January 29, 2014 | 12:00 AM

That seems wholly dangerous.

Published:Wednesday | January 29, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) notes the debate generated following the publication of its study titled 'Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates in Jamaica'.

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