When Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and her finance minister, Peter Phillips, broadcast to Jamaicans about the Government's latest round - the second in three years - of debt rescheduling, they promised to mobilise...
As much as it hurts our nationalistic sensibilities to concede it, we hope that United States law-enforcement agencies build cases and extradite the so-called lottery scammers from Jamaica. If they do, our Government, as the national security minister,...
I once got scammed out of $50 by a man pretending to be a coconut vendor.I'll spare you the details, but insist that sweet revenge will be mine whenever he and I meet again. Let's just say that I'm not averse to giving him a stern talking to...
We note Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell's intention of reintroducing the scheme that gave households energy-saving light bulbs in exchange for incandescent ones.We back the idea if the Cubans, who donated the first set of bulbs...
There have been African Popes, there have been Asian (from the Mideast) Popes, there have been European Popes and there have been so many Italian popes that for a time, one could have been forgiven for thinking some Mafia clan had cornered ...
Despite the overall positive impression I have of Hugo Chávez, I have a lingering suspicion that something wasn't altogether well, and that he was better to look at than live with.
It demands a stiff backbone to take tough, potentially unpopular decisions - if you believe them to be right - then bear the consequences. It is easier to pass the buck.
Isn't it strange how Jamaica is now being lambasted by the great United States of America and its apologists within our shores for what is perceived to be a lack of will and/or ability on the part of successive administrations to tackle the lotto scam scourge?
At the end of July 2010, the night before I boarded an aircraft to travel to the United Kingdom, I saw TV footage of a man lying on the ground and being shot by the police, the report said.
It's been a long time since I heard that refrain. The so-called C-word is still around and is used in Belize, places like Barbados ('De Coolie Man') and in some other Caribbean islands, without any sense of guilt or political incorrectness. This is how it was, this is how it is, and this is how it will be.
The joint United States-South Korean military exercises known as 'Key Resolve' and 'Foal Eagle' have got under way, and so far the heavens have not fallen.
The fire that raged at The Wyndham Kingston hotel early Thursday morning may have some businesses worried about their own ability to respond to an emergency of such magnitude.
It is a measure of the importance of the job that the world was so absorbed with how the Roman Catholic Church went about the choice, and who it eventually selected, as its new head.Except, that with about 1.2 billion adherents, the Catholic Church...
Parliament has a constitutional mandate, under Section 49, to make "laws for the peace, order and good government of Jamaica". All laws must be "subject to the provisions of the Constitution". The Constitution - and not our Parliament - is supreme....
So Catholics now have a new spiritual leader. It is not going to be business as usual. By all accounts, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is a remarkable man, and I believe exciting times are ahead!
OMAR DAVIES is, indeed, exceedingly arrogant. No one, however, could seriously accuse him of being a fool. He appreciates nuanced argument - and at times employs it. Which is a claim we, unfortunately, can't make in favour of some of his critics...
IN JAMAICA, the movement of children from school to school has been happening for decades. The reasons are various: families may relocate; religious preferences; academic programmes which one school offers...
FOR SOME strange reason we have concluded that retaining the buggery law can prevent people from being born homosexual. On top of that, we want nothing to do with homosexuality but talk about it, usually expressing disparage...
