Commentary

The cash crunch being faced by Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) should trouble every citizen who understands the importance of protecting human rights and ending abuse.Since an estimated 38 per cent of Jamaicans have no sense of what human rights really...

Everald Warmington, member of parliament for South West St Catherine, thinks public funding for election campaigns is a terrible idea...

Recent United States (US) legislative advances in online gaming introduced yet another clear, present danger to Jamaica's already gravely ill horse-racing industry.America has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century...

As further proof that we're becoming more American in our politics, 100 days is being marked as a significant time period within which a new administration must account for itself. It seems to me we've been in a long campaign since last December....

While all eyes will be turned on Dr Peter Phillips on May 24 on how he composes the Jamaican Budget to achieve, in addition to economic growth and the protection of the vulnerable, meaningful fiscal targets that will not dissatisfy the Washington...

The reprieve given 73 squatters who now live at government-owned premises at 87 Beeston Street in Kingston may have sent encouraging signals to others who are illegally occupying land and property all across Jamaica...

The light-headed person who came up with that provocative backdrop for the swearing-in ceremony last month of the mayor of Montego Bay must have been under the influence: liquor, hard drugs, politics - whatever.

When elephants play (or fight), it is the grass that gets trampled.While there are different wordings for this very popular Swahili proverb, the net effect is crystal clear and indicative of what has transpired in respect of the national campaign to...

That the Keith Clarke case is now in the hands of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) for a ruling is a matter of some optimism for Mr Clarke's family and friends, who want accountability for, and closure to,...

The challenges facing mathematics and science education are serious enough to warrant the nation's attention. We need look no further than the Grade Four Numeracy Test where less than half of the population sitting that test attained mastery. And this is an improvement on the 2009-2010 results, we are told.

As an independent school serving children with severe multiple disabilities, The STEP Centre has always faced major financial challenges to sustain and develop our work. Through our greeting card business, we have been able to purchase land on which to build a new school and resource centre.

One of the major reasons for communication problems is that we use the same word to describe a variety of phenomena that are essentially different. Take the word 'love'. We believe that 'love makes the world go round' and 'love is in the air'. We say, "I love my wife", "I love my house", "I love my car", "I love our dog."