Commentary

After being banned for a year and a half, the export of scrap metal from Jamaica is to resume towards the end of January.

LAST WEEK, it was confirmed that 46-year-old nurse Jacintha Saldanha had committed suicide in the nurses' quarters at King Edward VII Hospital in London, leaving behind a husband and two children. Saldanha took the prank call from two Australian disc jockeys who impersonated the Queen of England and Jamaica.

THIS NEWSPAPER is in no position to comment on the guilt or innocence of McKeeva Bush, the premier of the Cayman Islands, who was arrested for corruption and turfed out of his job after Tuesday's successful no-confidence vote against his government.

History traces the PhD and the master's degree to as early as the 12th century. The first doctorate was granted by the University of Paris, while the first master's originated from the University of Bologna. Both those institutions, along with Oxford, are the original three European universities.

Last Sunday's cake-cutting and performances to mark the 100th anniversary of the Ward Theatre took place outside the edifice. The Ward's ornate entryway provided an imposing backdrop for a very pleasant affair.

Here's an interesting statistic: the second-highest rate of gun ownership in the world is in Yemen, a largely tribal, extremely poor country.

The renewed debate in the United States over gun control does not belong to America alone. Other countries, including Jamaica and its partners in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), should not be shy about engaging in it.

His dawdling over the Tivoli Gardens report makes us sceptical, otherwise we would propose another assignment for Earl Witter, the public defender, whose job includes protecting the constitutional rights of Jamaicans from intrusion by the State.

Not that a country which can elect someone like Silvio Berlusconi prime minister lacks for interesting things, but still - an interesting nugget recently surfaced in Italy.

After my resignation as technical director and coach of Kingston College (KC) in August 2012, the KC sports master made an unsubstantiated remark that there were problems between the players and the coaching staff. He was never in the football admin loop, and could only speak about KC football from third- or fourth-party sources.

Javed Jaghai Guest ColumnistChristian activists Shirley Richards and Wayne West insist we should reject human rights discourse because it has been hijacked by 'the gay lobby' to promote tolerance for an immoral 'lifestyle'.

I did not understand that Roman Catholics are considered the Antichrist, the evil enemy of true Christianity, by the Seventh-day Adventists. I did not take it seriously that the Pope is considered by the Adventists as the Devil himself. I thought that all this was the idea of some fanatic few from the Adventists.