Like most sports-loving Jamaicans, I was following the case involving Camperdown and the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) with interest. Camperdown had failed to show for their game against St George's College on Saturday...
THERE ARE some persons I know who, whenever they see me, an arm is outstretched, palm upward, as if by instinct: "Beg yuh som'n nuh?"And I am not unique in this...
THE 2011 census claims there are approximately two million Jamaicans who identify with the Church (Garnett Roper, Analysing the Census, October 28, 2012) compared to half million in 1871; three-quarter million in 1921 and a little over one million in...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and her parliamentary colleagues are once again talking about introducing zoning laws and appropriate disaster risk-management legislation to prevent people from building homes in hazardous areas, and ways to protect...
Very recently, I heard a replayed quotation from one of our ex-prime ministers, which went something like this: "More man have cyaar, more man have cellphone; more man have gal dan evah before." It was one of the worst ever...
More or less at opposite ends of the world, two very long wars are coming to a negotiated end, with no victors and no vanquished. In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino signed a peace agreement with the leaders...
Anyone who has had anything to do with the management of Kingston over the past 40 years and sat in the pews of the Kingston Parish Church on Sunday ought to have been shamed by the Rt Rev Dr Howard...
There is a great resistance in all of us: to admit our own weaknesses and sins, our faults and mistakes. It is devastating to us and angers us when our wives, husbands, children, friends, co-workers or superiors point to our wrongs.
Finally, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) world economic outlook caught up with mine held and published since February.Why take so long? Well, the only difference between the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) and IMF is IMF bureaucrats are 'international'.
The bureaucracy must reassert itselfIf Jamaica's Government eventually finds the courage to implement, and stick with, a workable set of economic policies, its big problem will be finding the talent to manage the project.The Government employs a lot of...
There's a very distasteful display of leadership in Jamaica. One would think that those elected and appointed to govern our country would respond to waning confidence in their ability to perform adequately...
To answer Kelly Tomblin, CEO of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), Jamaicans want both: affordable electricity and good customer service. Ms Tomblin, assuming she survives in the job, has her work cut out for her....
Thanks to the violent ousting and deportation of the would-be 'One Don', Christopher Coke, along with relentless (investigative and operational) police intervention, many organised criminal gangs have been forced into retirement (albeit perhaps...
In the celebrated 2004 convention speech in which he introduced himself to America, Barack Obama famously declared he knew nothing of red (Republican) and blue (Democratic) states, he knew only the United States of America.
Well, we've been hit by another hurricane and, of course, this means many of us are still sitting in darkness.If you weren't flooded out of your home and your roof stayed in place, then the near-islandwide blackout is perhaps the most vexing part of...
Recent events in the Jamaican economy have brought to the fore, the need for a serious and nuanced discussion on what the Government, as one of the actors in the national economy, should be doing in order to facilitate economic growth and development.
Last week in Parliament, Finance Minister Peter Phillips began the job of placing the Government's slowly emerging economic policies into a strategic framework.
I think we are being a little unreasonable as it relates to the Jamaica Public Service's (JPS) handling of matters since the passage of Hurricane Sandy. The fact is that the power company could not just switch the lights back on magically the second the hurricane passed.
My first English literature book at college was a poetry collection. One of the poems was Matthew Arnold's 'Balder Dead'. We never read or studied the poem but the name by itself was cause for considerable hilarity.
In his letter published in the Wednesday, October 24 edition of The Gleaner, Mr Glenn Tucker claims that the national voters' list has been a victim of "political gymnastics" and suggests that several "supporters" are registered in three or four constituencies.
One of the positive outcomes of the passage of Hurricane Sandy is the speed at which businesses have tried to return to normal. One way to gauge whether a country is serious about commerce is to assess how its business leaders respond in times of crisis.
