Commentary

Recent events in Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), where a current leader and a former premier have been arrested, have added fuel to the already toxic political discourse in the region.

The evening started with my friend Kamal and I talking about heredity and the fact that it is not just hair or skin colour that passes from one generation to the other but intangibles like musical or writing talent.

As a human resource practitioner, for long I have been concerned about how poorly we use our human resources in Jamaica. Too many of our finest minds are either underemployed or without any positive active engagement. Yet we continue to expend significant resources preparing our people and encouraging them to prepare themselves. To what end?

Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa was king of Buganda (now part of Uganda) from 1884-1897. King Mwanga II was a violent ruler - a homosexual and paedophile who forced himself on the young boys and men who served him as pages and attendants. The Christians (Anglicans and Roman Catholics) at court tried to protect the pages from King Mwanga, who launched a campaign against them.

TO BE fair to the Simpson Miller administration, it has categorised the so-called auxiliary fees in secondary schools - those charges applied by principals for services other than tuition - to be an inescapable obligation for parents and guardians.

Below are reactions by readers on www.jamaica-gleaner.com to the lead story on Tuesday, 'Expensive and unsafe'.

A north-south route connecting Kingston to the North Coast Highway is undoubtedly an important step in the development of Jamaica. Yet this project has met numerous problems. The leg from Linstead to Moneague has been particularly troublesome, and eventually resulted in the contractors, Bouygues, pulling out from Jamaica.

Those of us who are living and will die by the precepts of a heterosexual lifestyle are having to confront an unpleasant but immutable reality.

In the event you didn't work out what it was, that booming sound at the weekend was the chest-thumping, captured by this newspaper, of the five parish council chairmen in the county of Cornwall.

I would be grateful if you would publish this open letter to Ms Shirley Richards:I write with reference to your column published in the December 9 edition of The Sunday Gleaner under the caption 'Wrestling with rights'.As a member of the religiously...

If we were cynical, we would claim that the hyperventilating in Parliament last week over the Public Sector Transformation Unit's (PSTU) report that the Government spends more than a billion dollars a year on rent was contrived.

Well, he had a clipboard and wore his glasses low on his nose, so he definitely meant business. The trouble is, nobody seemed to care. He was a pot-bellied security guard working at a Liguanea shopping mall's parking lot and he was in the middle of a verbal tussle with the driver of a red Corolla.