Prospective university students who were staking their future on getting loans from the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) must now be filled with despair following Wednesday's stunning revelation about the dire state of affairs at the Bureau.
Writing in this newspaper on Sunday, Bernard Headley, the University of the West Indies criminologist, offered a six-pronged strategy for tackling Jamaica's crisis of urban violence, which this newspaper commends to the country's policymakers....
In a way, it was inevitable that it would become a public spat. Those of us who follow local cricket closely knew about it from a few years back. We knew that Marlon Samuels did not see eye to eye with several of his Jamaica teammates...
POOR HUGH Small. He has forgotten the first lesson our mothers taught us when they heard excessive chatter. It is better to keep your mouth shut and let others think certain things of you, rather than open your mouth and confirm it...
ACCORDING TO a recent Gleaner report, the proposed legislation to deal with campaign financing for political parties will not be tabled in the House of Representatives this legislative year (January 14)...
THIS WEEK'S formal announcement that Jamaica is in drought conditions will, hopefully, lead to a serious debate about water management and the future of the state-owned water company, the National Water Commission (NWC).This newspaper has previously...
SEX EDUCATION for children in school MUST be rejected.It is a covert Western strategy to teach our children all sorts of things, which are anaemic to their psychological development. It influences them to become sexually active before marriage...
In an article in this newspaper yesterday, Dr Carlton Davis, an expert on Jamaica's bauxite industry, reminded of the substantial research done in the past to find economic uses for the tailings...
Though many small parties have sprung up over the years only to fade away after the election, the call for credible political alternatives is more intense today than ever before...
The Greek word for truth is aletheia.It literally means 'unhide', or 'hiding nothing'. Since the first use of the word, men and women have expended much energy sparring over how to assert, deny or counteract truth...
Phillip Paulwell's recent announcement of the decision of a Japanese firm to escalate work on the extraction of rare-earth elements to a pilot plant study, with the objective of establishing a commercial operation, has aroused interest in the potential...
Those who are wont to decry - and there are many - the quality and efficacy of anything formulated and executed in the Caribbean might give thought to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). The CXC is an institution ...
Have you ever noticed that when a person is approached by another individual in a wheelchair, they do one of three things? Give the person more space than is needed to pass; try not to make eye contact; or wait patiently to see if the person..
In 2006, a 21-year-old man was working with an aggregate factory that made building blocks. He was cleaning the inside of the machine that chops stones into small pieces when a co-worker accidentally turned it on...
It's hard to imagine the number of people who'll be glued to television screens all over the world today watching Barack Obama being sworn in for a second term as president of the United States...
When President François Hollande sent French troops into Mali to shore up that country's beleaguered government, many analysts warned it was just a matter of time before the conflict widened...
After last week's ordeal, the decision by the authorities to establish a permanent police post at the May Pen Hospital has no doubt been welcomed by the staff, patients and other users of that institution.Likewise, the police's new policy of conducting...
The administration will say that it is merely a week since the special Cabinet session at which ministers seemingly reached consensus on policies for achieving the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) demands for an economic support agreement.
The numbers show that violence became endemic and incidents of both common and organised crime skyrocketed in the years following Jamaica's Independence; and they've remained extraordinarily high since then.
It may have been a bout of desperation and wishful thinking, but the thousands of Jamaicans who tuned in two Sundays ago expected the prime minister to bring clarity to affairs concerning our economic crisis.
