Commentary

In a very real way, today is the day of reckoning for Jamaica's football. The implications for what will transpire against the United States tonight are more serious than the casual observer might want to believe....

LAST WEEK Thursday, 270 miners were charged with the murder of their colleagues who were shot by police. State prosecutors charged the miners under the apartheid-era common purpose doctrine. Police shot dead 34 miners two weeks ago during a strike at the Marikana Mine...

THE EDITOR, Sir:IN THE 2007 edition of Jamaican Athletics: A Model for the World, I maintained that there was "absolutely no reason why, with adequate coaching, Jamaica should not excel" in the non-traditional (for Jamaica) throwing events, and that...

A bane of Jamaica is the long time it usually takes to get anything done. Another is the seeming assumption by public officials that the declaration of policy is, of itself, its implementation...

No, because we taxpayers are going to feel it when they start to steal from our service companies.- okeem_fireGovernment cannot reopen the scrap metal trade, because we would have to move from Jamaica.- phill_sharpeYes, but they need to put in place...

Hopefully, it was merely a throwaway line by Horace Dalley rather than a subconscious effort to scare off potential buyers of Caymanas Track Limited (CTL).We raise this concern because we are not convinced that Jamaican governments have been serious...

Being busy doing nothing is a real art!Youth Minister Lisa Hanna and the matter of children held in lock-ups and other adult correctional facilities is a prime example.For several decades, now we have known of the problem of children being detained in...

Without a doubt, in the midst of the global problems that exist, many are giving up hope. If women understand the role God wants them to play in the family, church and nation, and rise to the occasion, there can be major changes....

It's one of the costliest crimes plaguing Jamaica, but few people recognise the scope and gravity of this parasitic add-on.The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the monopoly distributor of electricity across the island, lamented this past weekend...

It was not that long ago that family farms were disappearing everywhere. The world swam in mountains of excess production, which drove commodity prices into the basement.

WE FAIL as a country in acknowledging the tremendous leadership deficit that has put us in the very unfortunate state of affairs with which we have to grapple with today. With the change of government eight months ago, last year's improving economic indicators last year have gone haywire.