Commentary

For the many of us who thought that saying it with flowers was the right option for the good times and the bad times, the celebrations and the screw-ups, well, guess what? You're wrong. If you normally tend to say it with flowers only, you're a blooming idiot.

Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) does not charge 'a minimum balance fee' on its JN Schools Savers' Accounts, says Michele Pollard Gonzalez, member ombudsman. And, funds are not being deducted from these accounts, on a monthly basis.

National outrage at the rising incidence of sexual violence against children and women reached a crescendo this week when news broke that an eight-year-old girl, two teenagers and two women were brutally raped in their home in St James.

Oil exploration is an exceedingly fickle and risky, and not to mention expensive, business - especially offshore. Take the case of Jamaica's neighbour, Cuba, whose socialist economy, exacerbated by America's trade embargo, is in crisis...

We are an ambivalent society when it comes to matters sexual. At Independence in 1962, the age of consent for girls was 14. What Jamaican society was saying at Independence was that it was legal and allowable ...

A COUPLE Sundays ago under the headline, 'The photo is Bogle's' (September 16), Joan Vacianna, president of the Jamaica Historical Society, said in a brief letter, "We wrote to the editor of JET and he replied, admitting that the photograph...

I am not satisfied with his performance. He's too reactive, not proactive.

How dare you be 'different' and think you have a right to be accepted? And on top of that have the nerve to challenge MY beliefs, MY perceptions and even MY attitude towards YOU, a minority?You must be out of your...

It has always been hard for people with strong opinions to tolerate the discipline of electoral politics, which demands that they never speak their minds in public...

It is high time the Simpson Miller administration end the pussyfooting and come clean on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. For its policy-by-dribble is both confusing and confidence-draining and risks doing grave damage to the Jamaican economy...

Recently in the press, there have been calls for a redefinition of the role of our elected officials. Several commentators have gone as far as to blame the elected representative as the source of all ills our society is experiencing...

Jamaicans remain largely oblivious to last week's dramatic political developments in Trinidad and Tobago. First, public protest drove Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar into a hurried repeal of a controversial Section 34 of the country's new...