Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller can bask in her success of having the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) intervene in the impasse between Chris Gayle and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), although the final outcome of the initiative remains...
My last column, which I feared was too philosophical and abstract, got an overwhelming response. As I explained there, I am more comfortable throwing rocks at the pulpit than defending the faith...
Notice how the 'relationship experts' on United States TV never analyse their own relationships? None tell you 'relationships' are complicated; no one relationship can replicate another ('every hoe have it stick a bush'); no two people are identical...
There has been widespread condemnation of the alleged forged statement that was presented to the court in the well-publicised case of The Crown vs Eldon Calvert for murder...
No matter where in the world politicians are, they all seem to speak the same language - one in which their political aspirations sometimes supersede common sense and the common good.I have high regard for United States President Barack Obama...
Just a few weeks ago, United States President Barack Obama appeared to be coasting to an easy election victory later this year. The all-important economic indicators - growth, employment, incomes, spending - were rising...
Last Wednesday's death of Carl Rattray, 82, marked the passing of another of the heroic figures who made a significant contribution to Jamaica and the passing of whom leaves our country poorer.Sharp of intellect but quiet of demeanour...
Locally and globally, many tears have been shed and much pain felt because people have been deceived out of their life savings, and even Christians have suffered even greater loss...
He is bright-eyed, articulate, intelligent and well-meaning. But Arnaldo Brown faces potentially grave danger. The first-timer seems on the cusp of discovering pork - of the political kind...
Building a skyscraper is the ultimate expression of economic confidence, and more than half of the 124 skyscrapers currently under construction in the world are being built in China.
A few weeks ago, I was tasked with the responsibility of designing a research project aimed at investigating the extent to which particular organisational theories impacted actual outcomes.
The constabulary and its auxiliaries have allowed themselves to be persuaded by the police chief, Owen Ellington, to cool, if not permanently drop, their campaign for the removal of Terrence Williams as head of the...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I wish to use this medium to express my shock and dismay at the treatment that was meted out to the Kingston College quiz team in their Round Three match against St Mary High on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
THE EDITOR, Sir:Many, hopefully most, of us are waiting anxiously for minister Phillip Paulwell to disclaim or clarify news reports on his recent speech at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce function...
My generation was so politically incorrect that we thought political correctness meant that that if anyone asked us the name of the prime minister, we would know it.
Ever since his virtuoso five-goal performance for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen, the debate has been taken to another level. How good, really, is Lionel Messi?
On the surface, Mr Karl Samuda's argument appears compelling. "One of the challenges you are going to face as a country when you remove all of this (tax waivers to firms)," he told Parliament's tax reform committee, "[is that] it forms a disincentive...
Below is excerpted feedback to the lead story 'Cut those waivers', published in The Gleaner on Thursday, March 15, 2012.There is a reason for this push by the private sector, and the GOJ must take some time to study it carefully, and find out...
Phillip Paulwell is an honest man. At a forum in Mandeville a week ago, Jamaica's minister of science, technology, energy and mining is reported as saying, "I do not believe that Jamaica has the luxury of asserting a purist view...
JOE MATALON'S Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) continues to make the most compelling and persuasive case in Jamaica's debate on the tax reform.A centrepiece of their plan - articulated again yesterday before parliament's Tax Reform Committee...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The following is a response by Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn to the editorial dated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 'DPP must confront the crisis'.THE EDITORIAL described the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions...
RECENTLY, I had a chat with Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington on crime in Jamaica.He was very proud of the fact that no police person died in the line of duty in 2011. He places a high value on the life of his staff and he is on record...
