Commentary

It's a curious feeling that overcomes a man when he realises he's been outclassed by a guard rail.It's not even a particularly exquisite rail. No alluring contours or anything. Yet, in a revelation that has quite disheartened me...

A once-proud country stares bankruptcy in the face.The IMF hovers, chiding successive governments for their mismanagement, and warning ominously that the country risks collapsing under the burden of its debt...

Robert Pickersgill must be a funny guy. Good-for-a-laugh, ha-ha funny. Further, it is a reasonable conclusion that, if not now, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller was, in the past, personally negligent about the management of the finances of the People's National Party (PNP), of which she is president.

Yeah, right! And they believe it is more blessed to give than to receive. Seriously, though, no matter how much our men protest in public, I'm convinced that deep down, where it really counts, Jamaican men love oral sex. I mean they just love to talk about sex.

In her 2012 Budget presentation to the nation, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller addressed the wide range of social challenges that helped to shape the budgetary priorities for the present times. The various measures she highlighted in her speech have provided enough talking points for the truckloads of critics, supporters, economists, political analysts and every other talking head and itinerant belly-acher.

Many parents will find their money stretched too tightly this summer to buy books for children. There is something parents can do to keep and improve the level of literacy for their children from grade two upwards, and it does not come with 16.5 per cent tax!

This was on a Christmas card from a foreign student, but a friend sent me something that was posted on a political blog in Trinidad that was even more entertaining.

Jamaica appears to be at a crossroads in its educational development because of the grave economic challenges that face the sector. The latest disclosure that many private schools are so weighed down by debt that they are on the brink of extinction paints a grim picture.

Denesh Ramdin's angry, paper-waving exploits against the legendary Sir Viv Richards in the final Test against England recently has created ripples throughout the Caribbean, and is indeed one of the most-talked-about cricket happenings in the last week....

As Jamaican Roman Catholics gear up to celebrate their 'Journey: 500 years for the Catholic Church, 50 Years for Jamaica', I thought I would share some of the high points of this journey, to emphasise the contribution the Catholic Church...

RECENTLY, I read three reviews of my book, The Cross and the Machete.All three reviewers, Harold Jap-A-Joe in European Review of Latin America and Caribbean Studies, Michael Jagessar in Black Theology, and Swithin Wilmot in Slavery & Abolition...

Denesh Ramdin, the West Indies wicketkeeper, escaped lightly with a fine of only 20 per cent of his match fee for his behaviour after scoring a century last week in a cricket Test match against England. That, however, must not be the end of the affair.