Commentary

External muscle may have helped to push things along, but we nonetheless congratulate the Government for the speed with which it was able to push through legislation to tackle the lottery scam that targets mostly Americans.

Jamaica College principal Ruel Reid does a little evangelism among the boys every year.

This newspaper will adopt a wait-and-see attitude towards recent police operations in St James aimed at shutting down the criminals behind the pervasive lottery scam that has flourished in western Jamaica since 2007. The most recent operations have resulted in the arrest of two supposedly 'prominent' citizens of the Second City whose identities have not yet been released.

In the middle of the battle raging in the United States between the right to bear arms and the left to fear arms came this joke:A redneck walked into a gun shop, and asked for the largest gun in stock.

This article is in response to the letter in People's Report titled 'Pepper farmers lament low prices from processors', published on Saturday, March 23, 2013.

THE EDITOR, Sir:IN RECENT days, the director of public prosecutions (DPP) has come in for considerable stick on account of decisions tactical and otherwise taken by her office, as well as outcomes of judgments at the trial stage and reversals on appeal.

TWO YEARS ago, my friend 'Whitney' committed a 'criminal act' for which she could be sentenced for up to life in prison...

Justice has fled this country.Good, strong policing, underpinned by the respect for citizens' rights and status as human beings, has also fled this country. Only you, me and the long-sufferers of police abuse, victims of miscarriage of justice...

In the reign of Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, in the Government of Jamaica's Upper...

Last week was not a good week for my hopes to present another Reggae Film Festival (RFF) in Jamaica. The previous week had ended with the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) informing that, if the Reggae Film Festival actually takes place ...

It's with significant trepidation I announce today as The Old Ball and Chain's birthday.Please don't ask her age. Absent her walking stick; without her thick as Coca-Cola bottles bifocals; and having squirmed into her best spandex....

She was very young, prepubescent and under 10 years old when her parents left her in the care of an aunt and her husband while they went abroad to make a living...