From a public-relations point of view, the past week can't have been the best for the finance minister, Dr Peter Phillips.He was bombarded with scepticism by the Opposition - and others - over his ability to meet his year-end timetable for reaching...
My most recent interaction with the police force occurred when my friend fetched me from the airport just before Independence. As it happens, we were halted close to where the infamous Bicknell stop took place. It wasn't quite as exciting, but there was a moment.
Ainsley Henriques, honorary secretary of the United Congregation of Israelites in Jamaica, ought to know the African-Jamaican proverb, 'Cock mouth kill cock'...
The minister of education is reported in The Gleaner of August 22, 2012 as lamenting the fact that in the CSEC English A examination, Jamaican students fell woefully short in critically...
I have two grade fours in mathematics, and I am not ashamed. Actually, I surprised myself. I was expecting grade fives. And I did not look back. I was more than happy to rid my brain of all those unnecessary problems that I knew at the time...
I write in regard to the uncaring attitude of the management of PriceSmart towards handicapped persons. On entering, there are about five spaces for such persons, but because they are not monitored, the able-bodied persons park without thinking of the people in need.
Various news reports in the last month or so have helped to remind us of the high level of corporate philanthropy which has been nurturing the growth and educational development of talented youth all across Jamaica.
For a few days now, I have listened to the Power 106 radio programme 'Justice', hosted by former judge and former minister in the last administration, Senator Marlene Malahoo-Forte.
With all the new developments in the education sector, one voice has been absent from the saga. I have the impression that the media - and the country, by extension - have forgotten that Southern Trelawny Member of Parliament Marisa Dalrymple Philibert has responsibility to shadow the education portfolio.
"The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves." This is what Cassius of the "lean and hungry look", a gentleman that Julius Caesar said "thinks too much", said to his partner in crime, Brutus.
I am writing to express my disgust with the service being provided by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) on Route 66. It is very rare that this bus comes on schedule.
It's now confirmed, if anyone had any doubts, that Jamaica is the sprint capital of the world.Maybe I'm just greedy, or maybe it's just part of human nature to hanker for what you don't have, but I feel it's now time we seriously look at doing well in...
The Highway 2000 toll arrangements have been unfair from the beginning. They are unfair by design. We are told that the toll rates charged are calculated by the mile, which, if they did, it would be fair enough...
The arrest this week of three professionally and socially prominent persons, for allegedly attempting to pervert the course of justice and related offences, has sensationally drawn the public's attention to, and ignited wide discussion on, public...
WE WISH that we were able to welcome Mr Clayton Hall to the presidency of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) with assurance that his stewardship would be a turning point for the JTA, transforming it into a professional organisation focused largely...
DARYL VAZ - the second-generation politician whose father, Douglas Vaz, pulled no punches in his heyday as he squared off more than once with the might of former prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Edward Seaga - seems unable...
I BELIEVE we are coming on to times that require an underground Church, a time of martyrdom. I am not being alarmist, and I do believe that martyrdom will make us a stronger and better Christianity....
RECENTLY, ELTON Lowe, medical doctor, engaged in reasoning about God in an article titled 'So many gods, so little reason' (August 15). Lowe argues/asks, "… Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, gush repeatedly the mantra: 'I would like to thank God...
For now, this newspaper continues to give Angela Brown Burke, the chairman of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) and mayor of Kingston, the benefit of the doubt.We still hope that the mayor has the leadership skills to disentangle...
Forty-eight hours after South African police killed 34 striking miners last Thursday, Julius Malema showed up at the Lonmin platinum mine north of Johannesburg to assign the blame."President Zuma said to the police they must act with maximum force,"...
Politicians from both sides of the divide, in order to pander to the poor and dispossessed, keep promising jobs, jobs, jobs. For years I have held the view that their focus is all wrong...
"The law does not require it, but we do." Such is the bureaucratic arrogance dished out to a friend of mine who recently found himself in front of a functionary at a major government department in Kingston....
I normally don't pay much attention to Black Power movements like Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). For me, they are nothing but talk shops. However, while watching CVM-TV recently, I was shocked about what I learned about the UNIA.
I have found the statement about the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) monopoly made by Dr Carlton Davis, the prime minister's adviser, at a Gleaner Editors' Forum disturbing and confusing.
Many Jamaicans don't react well to others' success. An online comment by 'Roanja' regarding my Jamaica 50 Mayer Matalon tribute was a prime example. Although seemingly attempting balance while replying...
