Commentary

If the people in charge of the various opposition parties in Egypt had any strategic vision, they would not have launched the mass protests that caused the army to oust President Mohammed Morsi on July 4....

It is not only the election of Doran Dixon to a second stint as president of the teachers' union. Other evidence abounds of how we have this education thing upside down; that there is a premium on form over outcomes...

The first thing that occurred to me was: Who brought the fireworks? As upwards of a million Egyptians filled the streets of Cairo to celebrate the military's overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, a spectacular pyrotechnic display lit up Tahrir Square,...

When a demolition crew showed up at Millsborough, St Andrew, last week to level the house that had been captured by a group of lawless homosexuals, residents of the community were understandably relieved.The stories of the squatters publicly cavorting,...

Two Fridays ago, I got a distressful email from a hotel worker.

The act of submitting to an abortion is readily understood to be an act fraught with physical, emotional, religious and family consideration.

The tone of the rhetoric coming from members of the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS) and the Love March Movement (LMM), particularly Dr Wayne West and his protégé Daniel Thomas, is doing much more harm to the health of society than I think...

I know there are some people who don't fly LIAT. I don't blame them. However, many of us who live in the Eastern Caribbean don't have much of a choice, caught as we are between the devil and the deep blue sea, a rock and a hard place, Scylla and Charybdis, Wesley Hall and Charlie Griffith - in other words, between LIAT and CAL (aka BWIA).

With the Jamaican public being inundated daily with bad news via the media, I thought it only fitting to seek to bring some balance and highlight some of the good that still takes place.

It's next to impossible for Jamaica to qualify for the next World Cup in Brazil. Our only realistic chance is to win the next four games and hope for a series of results to go our way. But when you have lost your last three games, expecting to win the next four is asking a lot....

Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, may have been a bit hyperbolic in describing his forced landing in Austria earlier this week as a "near 13-hour kidnapping".