Commentary

Last week's reported case of malaria in St Ann should be a signal to the Government of the need for a new, and broader, discussion on health-care priorities, as well as what this newspaper believes should be its mission of doing the small things...

There is very little that can be predicted with confidence about Syria, save for the fact that the days of President Bashar al-Assad are now numbered...

The culture of a people is, to some extent, the source of its identity. Culture could even be seen as a nation's stamp on the fabric of history....

The likelihood is that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will very soon offer a full report on the three-day sessions of the Cabinet at which there was supposed to be a review of the economy and an articulation of strategies to lift it out of its crisis.

The year 2013 has produced two significant milestones in Jamaica's history as it marks the 75th anniversary of two noteworthy events that influenced the transformation of Jamaica's socio-political landscape.

Jamaica anxiously awaits the results of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiations. That the talks have been protracted is no secret. That the self-imposed deadline for completing the negotiation has passed is worrying to the populace.

One of the great failings of successive Jamaican administrations has been their inability to find suitable solutions to ensure the humane treatment of children in state care.

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I have just recently returned to Jamaica after spending the holidays abroad and was advised that I should visit the Ministry of National Security's Traffic Ticket Amnesty Online Query web page, as even though persons such as myself were sure that they had no outstanding traffic tickets, their names may still appear on the list.

We are not as concerned as most that Jamaica hasn't yet concluded a borrowing agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

A woman who can't support herself and earn her own way - who every week has to borrow money to go to the supermarket, to pay the electricity and water bills, and to buy petrol for her car - is not an independent woman...

The entire nation is panicking that there is no agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).One would think the loan, and green light to other multilateral lenders, are the oxygen for our economy.

There will be temptation among skittish members of the Government, we fear, to slink behind the recent acknowledgement by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard that the Fund underestimated the potentially deflationary...