Commentary

May is Child Month. It's a good time to reflect on the condition of many of our children in Jamaica. Repeated reports in the newspapers, talk shows and other media highlight the pockets of good Samaritans around our nation who are reaching out to assist so many children who have little or no financial or emotional support. I am thankful for these caring individuals in our society.

CARIBBEAN AIDS prevention advocates fear that crucial funding to sustain hard-won gains over the last decade could dry up by year end. Financial support from the Geneva-based Global Fund could cease because Jamaica and other Caribbean states, having been classified as 'middle-income' countries, no longer qualify as recipients of funding.

The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) two recent defeats at the polls could yet prove to be a blessing in disguise, for it is as a result of those massive defeats that it became obvious to the leadership that something radical needed to be done.

While there may be sympathy for university students barred from taking exams because they owe fees, the majority of well-thinking Jamaicans dislike civil disorder and chaos.

"I wish to advise that as of today, May 2nd, 2012, I have written to Somerset CC and advised them that I will not be honouring my commitment I made to them when I signed a contract with them for the 2012 Friends Provident Championship."I made it clear...

Perhaps Peter Phillips, the finance minister, will, at some point, pull a rabbit out of the hat.But Dr Phillips and the Simpson Miller administration should know that this newspaper does not believe in magic...

I AM appalled that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) continues to waste precious time in appointing a review commission to look at its free fall from relevance in the political arena. These men, however eminent, will not unearth anything new that the labourites...

IN HER Time magazine tribute to Portia Simpson Miller on being declared by the US publication as one of the world's 100 most influential, Yvette D.Clarke predicted that this country's leader "will have a profound impact as she strives...

I recently encountered an article titled '30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30'. I'm not a woman, so I didn't read it (all right, I skimmed it). But it did inspire me to compile a few things that every Jamaican should know by that age...

Andrew Holness, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), struck mostly the right notes when he, on Monday, named a four-member commission to undertake a strategic review of his party.He said: "We expect them to be brutally frank with us...

When the law is a shackle - Chris Tufton (Sunday, April 29)This objection to the establishment of a panel to monitor the actions of the Government in relation to things the OCG could find objectionable or in violation of the law seems strange to me...