Commentary

According to the BBC, the current attempt by the German government to change the law that allows people to have sex with animals is being fiercely challenged by at least one bestiality-rights group in that country...

By now, readers should've realised my OCD-like focus on the Vaz-Bicknell-Forbes fiasco arises from my belief there's more to this than meets the eye. To those who expose their hostility to disclosure of national interest concerns with facile...

Various administrations have been striving to effect tax reform. The current document is a collaborative effort between public and private sector and lays out proposals based on taxation having the following characteristics ...

With the worldwide crises now affecting the children, many are giving different opinions on what is to be done; some blame parenting skills...

Jamaica stood on the right side of history, but was perhaps uncertain of why or how it got there, or shies about being there.

Something must be wrong with those of us who think that Vanessa Wint's apparent suicide at the Horizon Remand Centre was enough of a tragedy and an emergency to cause our leaders to respond differently.

There is an oft-repeated anecdote of a beleaguered wife who, while listening to the glowing tributes being paid at the funeral of her husband, asked for the coffin to be reopened so she could ascertain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the occupant was indeed her erstwhile husband.

THE EDITOR, Sir:While I watched 'Smile Jamaica' on Television Jamaica Wednesday morning, I listened carefully to the parent who called about removing her child from Kensington Primary, Portmore, St Catherine, because the teacher had slapped her child...

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled."

Not many people will agree with me on this one, but I find the one-match ban imposed on Brazilian Luiz Adriano by UEFA to be out of place...

It was said of the late President Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania (called Mwalimu, or 'teacher') by his people, that "he set a high moral standard whereby the mark of presidential leadership...

I MAKE no apologies for the solid pro-teacher position that I normally take. I know what it is to feel beleaguered, disrespected and unappreciated. It is part of our lot....