If you say you intend to reform the arrangements for the financing of political campaigns to make them more transparent, having declarations made in secret will not achieve your objective...
As one of Gordon Robinson's faithful readers, I am often amused by his comical treatment of some very serious subjects. His column 'Who is to blame?', however, has left me scratching my head for his attack on the police ...
Over the last few days, there has been a raging debate about whether St Elizabeth Technical (STETHS) is being a little too extravagant by appointing Wendell Downswell as technical director (TD) for their school football programme....
In the final years of his journey, Nelson Mandela's greying hair, endearing smile and frail body conveyed an avuncular or grandfatherly figure who could turn on the charm and melt even the iciest of personalities...
Whatever may be the public's current perception of him, Richard Azan can now hardly escape the characterisation, rightly or otherwise, of loyal political fodder.Alternatively, he may be seen as one who pays for his political gifts: in this case...
Last week, Richard Byles, president of Sagicor Life Jamaica and co-chair of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), alongside central bank governor, Brian Wynter, suggested that the central bank needs to rein in monetary policy to resolve...
I agree with Esther Tyson's column, 'Values, standards and education', published in The Gleaner on November 24, 2013, in which she supported the notion that we need to change our culture to one where education is seen as...
Whenever I write about the need for zoning our schools, as I do very often, there are always a number of people who assume that I am proposing it as a means of achieving social equality or some such nonsense. Those who have read my articles and letters ...
It is not often that a seemingly relative routine job change is cause for comment in these columns. Nor is it often that an individual so defines an organisation that it becomes an embodiment of his or her character....
Having squandered the initial opportunity to begin the healing after a rough leadership race, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), after Sunday's vote for its second- and third-tier officers, appears ready to begin to suture the wounds....
Crime and policing are back in the news. The Government just doesn't get it. Nor does the police commissioner. It's just not good enough to plead insufficient resources. It's not good enough to blame the IMF....
Matters related to a nation's security will naturally evoke strong emotive responses, as poor national security threatens the lifeblood of every citizen, irrespective of his or her station in life or party affiliation....
Several generations of Jamaicans are accustomed to living in a society in which curry favour, 'blys', under-the-table deals, back-door deals, 'links', 'drop-a-money' deals, breaking/ignoring the regulations and outright corruption are often seen...
The outstanding initiative of the Ministry of Education and its partners, including the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), in crafting the policy for the mandatory reintegration of school-age mothers into the formal education system must be commended.
We hold to our view that Andrew Holness, the Jamaica Labour Party leader, was morally and politically in his right to insist on Christopher Tufton and Arthur Williams' resignation from the Senate.On the legality of the tactic ...
Now more than ever, there is a need to address critical issues impacting life on the globe for which politicians have increasing demonstrated they either have no clue in dealing with, or have remained quite ineffective in solving.All they are doing ...
We are pleased that our recent comments on Papine, in east St Andrew, would merit the attention of L.Mark Taylor, the deputy dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the Technology...
It was with a wry, knowing smile that former Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham joined in the chorus of praise by his fellow prime ministers for the proposed Caribbean-wide open common economy at the opening ceremony of the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Montego Bay in 1977.
Trinidad and Tobago, the twin-island republic with approximately 1.3 million people, is at it again. It's once again treating the people of Jamaica with what amounts to disdain. Again, T&T displays an attitude of disregard in a series of put-downs going back to at least the natural gas and aluminium smelter fiascos.
Even though I didn't have a ticket, I was betting on Andrew Holness in the JLP sweepstakes. And it's not because I was fantasising that he would appoint me a senator if he managed to hold on to his crown as party leader. I'm clearly not cut out to be a good sheep.
When Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago's foreign minister, meets his Jamaican counterpart A.J. Nicholson tomorrow to discuss a range of fraught issues, he might be tempted to break the ice with a joke about the Polish plumber.
John F. Kennedy tried to kill me. OK. Not really. But he almost prevented me being born though, which is damned close. I'm not saying he tackled Ronnie with a meat cleaver or anything like that, so it wasn't aimed at me specifically. But actually, he almost wiped out my whole generation.
As we approach what is shaping up to be a joyless Christmas season, with murder and mayhem the order of the day, Jamaicans have found one thing to cheer them up. It is Tessanne Chin's voice.
