Commentary

It's one of those things you wish there was a switch for, that you could just flip and have the problem disappear...

Whoever Portia Simpson Miller appoints and/or elevates to the presidency of the Senate to succeed Stanley Redwood, she should ensure that he has greater faith in Jamaica than his predecessor.That person, Mrs Simpson Miller...

It may have fallen under our collective radars that William Heaven, the CEO of the Government's CHASE Fund, chairs the finance and audit committee of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA)....

To change the world, first change your heart.

The professional relationship that exists between patients, health-care providers and the health-insurance industry goes three ways.

No matter how hard I try to filter out spam, I end up getting all sorts of unwanted email messages: fraudulent appeals from friends supposedly stranded abroad who need large sums of money to help them come home; sales pitches from China offering goods...

Kelly Tomblin, CEO of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company, may have been bit a melodramatic.

I am delighted the Rev Dr Devon Dick agrees with my position that "the Somerset case in 1772 did not abolish the presence of slaves on English soil". One must emphasise, however, the importance of not using this outcome to devalue the implication of Lord Mansfield's ruling on the Somerset case that "the black must be discharged".

The threatened viability of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is something that demands national attention, especially as it is estimated that as many as 200,000 households are stealing electricity.

What do you have to do to get mutton at a good price? If you're a sheepskate, you go to a sheep sale. Unless you're in China where mutton can be rat, mink or fox.

The regional cricket season has ended for Jamaica, and for the first time in a long while, our senior team ended trophyless. Winning titles at the regional level was taken for granted by spectators and players alike, and finishing empty-handed has been a bitter pill to swallow.

Agro-parks must be good things. Roger Clarke, the agriculture minister, talks about them a lot. So, too, does Peter Phillips, the finance minister. Indeed, in these hard economic times, in which he is facing the strictures of the International Monetary Fund, Dr Phillips is allowing the agriculture minister to spend more than J$1 billion on these parks.