Commentary

How much should a breadfruit cost? This is an odd question to find on these pages, I know...

Judging from the Christian responses to the constitutional challenge to the law against buggery that I have heard or read in the newspapers, I deem it necessary to make a somewhat radical suggestion to my brethren.There is a fact that we Christians need...

There are many easy and credible reasons to criticise Peter Bunting, the national security minister, over his handling of his portfolio.That is why we are surprised at what, in recent days, has become the Bunting cause célèbre - his remarks...

I find it very challenging to do otherwise than acknowledge the achievements of our national health-care system. We are a middle-income country. We have significant economic constraints, yet we control outbreaks of dengue fever, malaria and other communicable diseases.

Andrew Holness has among the most difficult and potentially exciting and transformative jobs in Jamaica. He is leader of the Opposition, a high constitutional position. But more important in the context of this discussion is Mr Holness' leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which last week marked its 70th anniversary.

Mi no mean dead wid laugh. A di odder kind a funny mi a talk bout. Wa dem a call 'queer' inna dem ya time. Suppose Jesus was a B-man. Tink bout it. Im never married. An im par wid nuff man. Pon top a dat, ascorden to weh John write inna fi im book inna New Testiment, Jesus did av a special love fi im. A so John seh.

A few weeks ago, I had one of my major illusions shattered.

Faith in God and science is not incompatible.The notion that there is combat between Christianity and science is intensely flawed.

The West Indies failed to make the final of the tri-nation series with India and Sri Lanka which wasn't only staged in the West Indies, but which they started off with two wins.Every time you feel the West Indies are making some kind off meaningful...

RECENTLY, I was in the office of the principal of The Mico University College and the book Thomas Buxton and Liberation of Slaves (2001) by Oliver Barclay caught my attention.

THERE WAS an ostentatious celebration when the police removed some young men - about 16 of them - who have nowhere to sleep from a property in Millsborough last week. The delight was palpable....

Politicians and the police continue, by far, to be the most distrusted groups in Jamaica.Yet few, if any, of us in the island will find cause to celebrate the results of the latest Global Corruption Barometer just published by Transparency International.