Commentary

The Gleaner's editorial of May 25, titled 'Other Cokes are possible', gratuitously repeats the canard that "the then Jamaican administration resisted, for nine months, America's request to extradite Coke and engage in unseemly behaviour to have Washington change its mind".

RECENTLY, PETER Knibb, chief financial officer of Pan Caribbean Financial Services, sent me a February 2012 issue of BET magazine in which the identical picture and pose most Jamaicans identify with National Hero Paul Bogle was ascribed to Thomas L. Jennings. He yearned to know what was happening.

Something needs to be done, so the country can stop scaring away tourists and returning residents .

Police accost man, man fires at police, police fire back, man dies, loaded gun found.

In opening the parliamentary debate on how he plans to fund the Government's Budget, Peter Phillips praised the Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) for the slew of tax-reform proposals it placed on the table and for promoting serious discussion on the issue.

Peter Phillips' Budget speech accepted Jamaican and international realities - the cupboard is indeed bare! Yet it's possible to do the right thing in the wrong way, as the angry public reaction is proving.

Jamaica, even if only a little bit, is a better place today than a fortnight ago. One of its citizens rediscovered Jamaica and her love for it. A slew of people affirmed the primacy of love.

There has been a noticeable increase in people (represented by individual lawyers and legal firms) making personal injury (PI) claims on insurance companies for motor vehicle crashes (MVCs). There was a time when doctors became involved in the management of their own patients that were victims of MVCs.

I've never eaten a blueberry while getting a tattoo in a hot-air balloon. I might consider doing this, if my checks reveal there are no special taxes involved. Our friends in parts of the United States aren't afforded such privileges.

That's the far-from-flaccid opening line of the poem Ralph Thompson performed on the open mic at the Calabash International Literary Festival, held last weekend in Treasure Beach.

It is Dr Peter Phillips' claim that Mr Audley Shaw, and the Jamaica Labour Party administration more broadly, squandered the opportunity afforded by the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) - the arrangement under which domestic holders of Jamaica's bonds agreed in 2010 to lower yields and longer maturities.

The city of Montego Bay has a major problem - that of an ever-increasing number of street persons. Many of them can be seen in and around the Sam Sharpe Square area and on nearby streets. There are more than 50 persons living on the streets of the city, and they are suffering from a number of medical problems, including mental illness and drug addiction.