Commentary

We wouldn't be surprised, if, should he not be so named in the Independence honours list, the Rev Al Miller appoints himself national hero and turns up at King's House in October to be appropriately vested.Rev Miller, it is recalled, was arrested in...

There is never a pork barrel in whose grease politicians don't want to slither and around which they do not hope to build ramparts. Ask Daryl Vaz...

For all we know, the presses at De La Rue, the company outside London which produces the currencies of more than 150 countries (Jamaica included), are working full speed right now, secretly making a new Greek drachma...

She was from Botswana. I met her in 1984 at a housing symposium held at George Washington University in Washington, DC, administered and sponsored by USAID.

In response to last week's column 'Passive resistance at UWI, Mona', a disdainful reader who goes by the name of 'Pauline Principle' took a rather unprincipled position: "I am shocked that in these hard times, scarce resources are being squandered on a...

EDITORIALThe job now is to collect the taxesAs was obvious from the deliberations by Parliament's Standing Finance Committee over the past week, crafting the Government's Budget for the current fiscal year couldn't have been easy.Like Oliver Twist,...

THE EDITOR, Sir:On January 23, 2012, two suspicious-looking men in a pickup pulled up at my gate, and yes, it was a summons to appear in 'Her Majesty's Court', as a juror, or else!Regarding the summons, I could not help being reminded of a verse in the...

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain, but the rain in Port-of-Spain is, in Trini terminology, 'own way', or as stubborn as a burro, and in this sense resembles the legendary thousand-pound gorilla.

Yes, we're counting! This year, Jamaica can mark 50 years since we threw off some of the chains of British colonialism, but quite a few shackles remain.Our laws and processes are shackled to English jurisprudence, and even if we abolish the Judicial...

One of the most common expressions you will hear in any discussion on sports is that such and such a person 'was born with natural talent'...

Jamaica's finance ministry and its agencies tend to be far more transparent than other government departments with information that inform, or are the effect of, public policy.For instance, each month, in arrears, the ministry posts on its website...

THE NUMBER of Tibetans burning themselves to death in protests against Chinese policy has grown very fast recently: the first self-immolation was in 2009, but 22 of the 30 incidents happened in the past year...