Commentary

The number of people killed daily in our little country is extremely troubling.Crime, especially murders, leaves Jamaicans feeling very vulnerable and unmotivated, and it blights all our economic recovery efforts...

If you are born a male in Jamaica, there is a great likelihood that you will be abused (verbally, mentally, physically and emotionally), ridiculed (for being 'soft'), used (by women, friends and family), relegated to a secondary or inferior place...

It is in the nature of politicians not to grasp the logic of things. So, we are not surprised that they rounded on the National Water Commission (NWC) last week over its supposed inefficiency, when its executives appeared before Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) to discuss the NWC's finances.

I certainly don't mean bowing in the dancehall sense of the word. The governor general is a most honourable representative of Her Majesty the Queen of England. He's two in one and one in two, both male and female.

The Gleaner's latest instalment on cultural chaos is news that schoolboys are popping street-vended Cialis, Viagra, and other sexual enhancers. So I called up to see if it was possible to re-register for high school, get de ting downtown, and head over to the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre.

I was shocked and confused by some of the assertions contained in Mr Ian Boyne's article 'Ding-dong battle for JLP leadership' (Sunday, October 27, 2013).

There is a dangerous power that exists among commercial banks. Recently, they decided not to do business with cambios, almost unilaterally, irrespective of the cambio's size, clientele and location.

The Government, in its attempt to force the residents of Portmore to use the Portmore toll road in order to collect enough money, has made the alternative Mandela Highway as inconvenient as possible, especially during peak hours. It's an absolute nightmare.

An important voice has been added to the regional conversation about publicly funded tertiary education. Since Barbados announced in August that students must start paying tuition at the University of the West Indies starting in 2014, there has been heightened public debate, which essentially calls on the Caribbean to come to terms with the current economic realities.

Dr Lascelve Graham, in an article ('Schools must take up slack of socialisation') in The Gleaner of October 30, 2013, has made some good points about the need to use schools as instruments of socialisation to do the job that is not being done by homes...

Racism in football, or, more specific, racist chants in football (and I believe there is a difference), again dominated the football landscape. Last week, Manchester City player Yaya Touré claimed he was racially abused in a Champions League game against CSKA Moscow...