Commentary

Dr Omar Davies served as finance minister for 13 years and eight months, the longest stint of the 10 men who've led arguably the country's most crucial ministry between 1959 and 2012.Used as he is to dealing with big budgets involving massive amounts ...

"Cutting the Cabinet, that's optics, borders on being frivolous."So it was that, with a dismissive wave of an imperious hand, the concerns of thousands of ordinary Jamaicans asked to sacrifice for the nation were rejected as childish.

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says that its planned constitutional challenge of the Government's plan to withdraw almost J$46 billion from the National Housing Trust (NHT) is aimed at protecting citizens' right to the enjoyment of property....

Last week's death of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, happened as the Jamaican Government was advertising its appointment of Dr Wesley Hughes, the former financial secretary, as manager of its PetroCaribe Development Fund...

Say what you will about Hugo Chávez, nobody was indifferent to the man and rare are those who will declare he did not make his mark...

A court of law held Sergeant Lloyd Kelly to have been innocent of murder based on the evidence that was before it. Even with more evidence, the verdict might have been the same.

'Ignorance is no excuse against the law' is a maxim which guides our legal system. One cannot claim as a defence for breaking the law that one did not know that such conduct was unlawful.

Right about when George Bush introduced the education initiative No Child Left Behind, the enormous child molestation scandal that had been criminally hidden by church authorities for decades began to break open. Some wag made the observation that the Church's programme could be called 'No Child's Behind Left'.

THE EDITOR, Sir:From the other day, there has been uproar about the Government's plan to take $45.6 billion from the National Housing Trust (NHT).

On the face of it, Wednesday's wage restraint agreement between the Government and some public-sector unions was a significant step by the Simpson Miller administration towards concluding an economic support agreement with the International Monetary...

During my first week as United States secretary of state, I had the honour of meeting with a group of courageous women from Burma...

AS WRENCHING as it may still have been for his mass of supporters around the world, few could claim that Tuesday's death of Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and controversial president of Venezuela, had been entirely...