Commentary

Finally, coach Theodore Whitmore has named a squad for the first game of this final round of CONCACAF qualifiers. The squad, generally, is a good one, and is a fair representation of the best talent we have at our disposal...

Jamaica continues to struggle to put its public ducation system on solid ground. It should be noted (without any sense of consolation) that throughout the United States, particularly its urban centres, public-school education is no farther along today...

WE ARE FAST concluding that Fenton Ferguson, the health minister, is chronically afflicted by a condition that appears to haunt the Simpson Miller government: attention deficiency syndrome (ADS).This administration can't seem to concentrate on anything...

WHO IN heaven's name commissioned this senseless conspiracy of silence across the country? How can we be so unperturbed by the infringement of our constitutional rights as a people and rampant corruption? This could not be the same country that was born...

We understand the stink raised by a handful of parliamentarians over the idea that water, recycled from sewage systems, is suitable for drinking. Good science, of course, has long since proved that it is...

I cannot count the times my friends have chastised me for having a 'goat mout', which in Jamaican parlance means you have a way of foretelling disaster and bad luck...

Like the notorious boy who cried wolf, it's a dangerous trend to always call a crowd to witness your every movement. Before long, you'll expose a little too much...

THE EDITOR, Sir:In response to a letter to the editor dated Friday, January 25, 2013, titled 'Sue Petrojam for Poor quality fuel', Petrojam Limited wishes to inform that the company supplies fuels manufactured to the dictates of the Jamaican law, as...

I offer my condolences to the family and friends of Dr Heather Little-White. Indeed, I should offer my condolences to the entire country....

Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched? You probably are. And not only that, you're possibly being recorded as well...

I seem to have missed the details of last week's news item about a shipment of charcoal to the Middle East, but I did hear the concern expressed on television that allowing the export of charcoal would result in the eradication of our forests!

It can't have been without compelling reason that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller decided to miss the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Chile, to which she has dispatched her foreign minister, Mr A.J. Nicholson.