Our abortion law may need rewriting, but only after the authorities have grappled with certain fundamental issues.We often fail to reckon with other than Roe v Wade when we discuss abortion, but there is also Doe v Bolton...
Call it the Great Jamaican Social Media Revolution of 2013.On Monday, when Jamaicans went home to watch The Voice, the hit NBC singing competition on which our own songbird, Tessanne Chin, is competing this year, they were met with some troubling news.
With a reported 902 persons murdered between January 1 and October 5 this year, pressure is building on the Government and the security forces to deal with the thugs whose fierce inter- and intra-gang rivalries have accounted for a staggering 80 per...
We take the race for the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seriously.The competitors should do likewise. Or, put another way, there should be a larger purpose to being at the helm of the party than merely for the power and prestige of leadership.
We would be hardly surprised if the conduct, thus far, of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) leadership race is leaving the public perplexed about the motivation of the aspirants and weakening confidence in that party as...
A salient feature of American 'exceptionalism' is the belief that the United States can never be ordinary. If it is not the best, it must be the worst. If it is not destined to dominate the world forever, it is doomed to decline and decay...
The slaughter on our roads is unnecessary, sad and frightening.Once again, schoolchildren died on public buses that are their primary means of affordable transport. They are supposed to be as safe as humanly possible...
Divorce, which is so traumatic to the children, must not be taken lightly.Divorce does deeply affect both man and woman, but it also splinters the mind and emotions of the children. More likely than not, it creates instability and lack of trust ...
"So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, 'Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.' Therefore, they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which...
Much has already been made of the award by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) of approximately J$4 million to Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who, two and a half years ago, was deported from Barbados after being held overnight in a cell and...
First, there was an attempt to bring forward the conference date and shorten the campaign, now there's a decision that there will be no public debates between Audley Shaw and Andrew Holness. Horace, call mi! We have to talk. I'm realising that you don't have my best interests at heart.
In Jamaica today, a woman who ends up in hospital as a result of complications from an illegal abortion can actually be handcuffed to her bed as a suspected felon. Upon conviction of inducing abortion, she may be condemned to life sentence with hard labour. That's the law
My money is to do with as I please. It is amazing that lobbyists in this country, where allegations of long ago had political parties virtually robbing the bank to finance political activities, can now be so sanctimonious that they dare to tell the citizens what to do with their money.
Images of heavily tinted 'party' buses pounding with X-rated music for the entertainment of truant students have become the visible expression of an increasingly lawless society.
Jamaicans have been lamenting the high crime statistics for the past several decades. We have changed governments, tried several ministers of national security, and appointed several police commissioners, with varying degrees of success.
If it intends to prevent a return to global financial turbulence and maintain America's pre-eminent place in the world, it is urgent that Congress end its latest bout of irresponsibility and begin to manage the country's economic affairs in a fashion not reminiscent of a banana republic.
In his recent publication, Kissing the Book: The Story of Sam Sharpe, as revealed in the Records of the National Archives of Kew, biblical scholar and historian, Larry Kreitzer, of Regents Park College, Oxford University, explores the court trial...
