Commentary

For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many people, including educated individuals, believe that a whale is a very large fish.Well, that was the description that opposition parliamentarian J.C...

I started just under three years ago. That is, when I was almost 60 years old. That is going to the gym. And I am happy to say that I have been fairly dutiful. Maybe that's because moderate/strenuous exercise produces endorphins. These same endorphins are produced when having sex, laughing and doing other emotionally good things.

One thing we won't be celebrating this 50th birthday is our parliamentarians' behaviour. Over the years, we've tried to copy the United Kingdom (UK) House of Commons' style, but lacking its wit and charm, we've only succeeded in creating a House of Common Vulgarity. Missiles and insults alike have been cast across the aisle as medieval armies would cast stones from catapults into enemies' midst.

We are relieved that Phillip Paulwell, the mining minister, either misunderstood the message that was being conveyed to him by UC Rusal's man in Jamaica, or that the company may be having second thoughts about its plan to mothball its alumina refinery at Ewarton, St Catherine.

The Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in St Ann has been the focus of attention in the past two months because of an incident involving five boys who attacked the dean of discipline, leaving him with a stab wound and a broken leg. This might give the impression that this is a 'bad school'.

When it comes to apnoea and other sleep disorders, I am a snore-house of knowledge. What was a gentle fluttering noise emanating musically from my olfactory organs when I was in my prime (if, as my children argue, there ever was such a time) eventually became the melodic phrase that the calypsonian, Atilla the Hun, used to describe the arrival of the Graf Zeppelin in Trinidad in 1934: "a rumbling and a tumbling in the atmosphere".

Anyone who had the experience of implementing major online databases or introducing new information/communication technologies would have an appreciation of the potential pitfalls.Even after testing, many things can go wrong...

The recent precipitous announcements by LIME, and then Digicel, of a dramatic fall in phone-call rates have confirmed me in my market atheism...

It was only last weekend a Jamaican team came back victorious from Trinidad and Tobago, where they had won the inaugural staging of the regional Under-17 cricket competition...

OFTEN I have said money is the end of our modern Jamaica and our world. It is no longer the search for truth or the good of humanity. I have met some of the most beautiful and honourable people in our island...

LAST Tuesday, there was mayhem in the House of Representatives. It was exacerbated when the Deputy Speaker of the House Lloyd B. Smith, after failing to get the support of the members...

The national minimum wage is now $4,500 (general) and $6,655 for security guards...