Commentary

The last time the People's National Party (PNP) controlled the mayorship of Montego Bay with a tenure of significant recollection was when a hapless gentleman with the surname of Solomon occupied the job and presided over the city during the infamous...

THERE HAS always been an ambiguity in the responses of Trinidadians to carnival.Carnival has two 'pulls' on the heartstrings of the Trinidadian....

RECENTLY IN Honduras, more than 300 poor souls died at 'hell on earth'; or to be accurate, during a fiery prison calamity that evolved from basic food preparation into a horrible conflagration...

But for his wish to complete and implement portions of his tax-reform programme, Finance Minister Peter Phillips would, around this time, be presenting the government's budget for the 2012-20013 fiscal year...

I WAS once a Cub Scout. I remember participating in a major scout event in St Ann. I was selected to lead a flag ceremony at the culmination of which, I would hoist the Jamaican flag as the national anthem...

FOR A country that is consistently ranked as one in which corruption is endemic, it is pretty interesting to see that the venerable Professor Trevor Munroe has been appointed an individual member of Transparency International...

FOR OVER 19 years, I have been crying out in the wilderness, like John the Baptist, asking that the authorities do more for our children. "Oh no, who is she?" they asked. I was cursed, threatened, and insulted by persons in charge of care and protection on the pretext that they held the sole responsibility for decision making.

CARNIVAL COMES once a year - a time for merriment and fun, dancing and drinking, whatever. How did this festival start in the first place? And what brought it to us here in Jamaica? Read on.

"IT IS never easy to persuade those who have acquired power forcibly of the wisdom of peaceful change," Aung San Suu Kyi once remarked.

GOVERNMENTS ABUSE the public trust.

IN THE past two and a half decades, countries all over the world have sought to pursue the restructuring and introduction of competition into the electricity sector. In general, this has been prompted by the view that state ownership of utilities as well as the absence of competition, whether for privately or publicly owned utilities, invariably results in excessive costs, low service quality, poor investment decisions, and lack of innovation in delivering service to customers.

WE HOPE that Shelly Tomblin, the American corporate heavy hitter, who is a week into her job as CEO of Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), finds Jamaica a pleasant and hospitable place to live. But Ms Tomblin, were she not before, would be aware by now that hers is no cushy assignment, for which there is a honeymoon.