Commentary

I'm sick and tired of the ignorance-based sophistry that's currently passing for a serious education debate in Jamaica.

How can Government suggest that agriculture presents the best hope for rural development when the agency charged with driving that vehicle is not given vital budgetary resources to undertake the job?

On June 30, 1860, seven months after Charles Darwin published his famous book on evolution (On The Origin Of Species), several prominent British scientists and philosophers got into a very heated discussion at the Oxford University Museum. What makes the event memorable is a question that the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, asked Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his passionate advocacy on behalf of Darwin's theories.

On Wednesday last, this newspaper exposed the absolutely scandalous situation of widespread breaches of the Corruption (Prevention) Act by our public servants...

This is the third in a series of columns by Jamaicans for Justice in commemoration of Child Month.It was lunchtime when Stacey'scaregiver, Ms Allen, instructed her to eat outside with the other wards....

We note the first communiqué by the public/private group committee that has undertaken to monitor Jamaica's latest agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and are particularly struck by two things...

REVEREND STANLEY Redwood, in his resignation remarks as president of the Senate, claimed that his reason for migrating was that he puts his family first - a family which consists of talented children.Redwood was lauded by both sides of the House for his...

We, like Dr Peter Phillips, believe that ditching Jamaica's political ombudsman would be premature. For we are not sanguine that the transformation of the political culture which gave rise to the post has been fully achieved.

In 4500 BC, two priestesses trekked up the steep and misty hill of Sinai. And Stiffneckus Principalis spoke from amid the sulphurous fog, saying, "I am he which hath brought thee out of the land of freedom into the house of bondage.

Floyd Morris' elevation to the presidency of the Jamaican Senate is symbolically important.For whether he wishes to be so or not, Mr Morris is a torch-bearer to many thousands of blind and visually impaired persons in Jamaica and those with others forms...

I read with a sense of regret about the recent stabbing incident at the Penwood High School, an occurrence which has become all too commonplace....