Commentary

Each national security minister seems to think he can use rusty ideas and no clear plan to win a war against organised crime.

As is the practice of finance ministers, Peter Phillips climaxed his Budget presentation with a rousing call for national consensus, which he identified as a critical component of any effort to lift Jamaica out of its economic crisis and build...

The monster of crime which is ravishing the nation is cause for each of us to look into ourselves individually and collectively to see whether our actions are in anyway contributing to the escalation of crime....

When TVJ News aired the clip with Peter Bunting, minister of national security, saying, "I am convinced that the best efforts of the security forces, by itself, will not solve the crime problem in Jamaica, but it is going to take divine intervention...

Daryl Vaz has offered back five per cent of his salary. He was very conspicuously NOT joined by anyone else, and I began to wonder why. Is the public aware that political parties automatically withdraw funds from the pay cheques of parliamentarians and councillors for housekeeping expenses? They do. Also, deductions are made for government pension and health insurance.

Both the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) appear to be in their comfort zone these days. For as moths are drawn inexorably to a flame, so is the JLP to internal wrangling and the PNP to scandalous controversies.

In a closer-than-expected Venezuelan presidential election held last Sunday to replace the late Hugo Chávez, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has refused to recognise the result, calling it "illegitimate" and fuelling violent protests.

When I was a little boy, the only toothpaste around was Colgate.

Dr Winston Davidson, the chairman of the board of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), talks loudly and enunciates clearly....

STUDENTS AT the University of the West Indies (UWI) were involved in an imbroglio regarding the disruption of examinations last year...

ALTHOUGH WE have so many churches per square mile and people who believe in the power of the divine to reduce crime and violence, we have one of the highest per capita homicide rates worldwide...

RICHARD AZAN, minister of state in the transport, works and housing ministry and member of parliament (MP) for North West Clarendon, gave unauthorised instructions for the building of shops on property owned by the parish council...