Commentary

That voluntary five per cent pay cut by United States President Barack Obama was one of the strong talking points in politics this week.

Fourteen years ago, scientists developed a genetically engineered version of rice that would promote the production of vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in developing countries.

IT WAS evident that Maurice Facey, who died this week at age 87, was not chest-thumping man or one for having his name set in marquee and emblazoned in lights.But for more than half a century, since he, in 1958, spearheaded the sale of his father's...

This is an open letter to my colleagues in Trinidad and Tobago. It is not a secret that Trinidad and Tobago boasts one of the freest environments for the media in the Caribbean and, I would dare say, in the Americas...

WITH THE coming of Jamaica Carnival, we will, once again, have a renewal of the debate concerning the music that is played to accompany the masqueraders and for the revellers at the carnival parties.It is an undeniable fact that most of the lyrical...

THERE HAS been a recent report that Robert Rainford, then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Justice, who acted as surety for the accused Carlos Hill, owner of Cash Plus, was being investigated by the Services Commission.

The United States-South Korean military exercises will continue until the end of this month, and the North Korean threats to do something terrible if they do not stop growing more hysterical by the day.

Recently, I overheard someone saying a well-known politician was ill and had been hospitalised. I was unable to check this independently and have seen no media reports to this effect, so I will refrain from calling any names in this article...

My routine sumptuous consumption of Sunday reading of The Gleaner was again enhanced by my brethren Orville Taylor's usual perspicacious penmanship, exhibiting his usual balance of intellectual depth with common-sense pragmatism....

The principle of sacrifice is embedded in every (ancient and modern) religion.The various 'religious sacrifices' have evolved from human sacrifice to animal sacrifice to self-sacrifice - sacrificing money or other possessions...

Julian Hunte, the unseated president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), has been unfortunately quiet since his defeated bid for another two-year term last week.There was no immediate and public congratulation to his former deputy and successor...