Commentary

A decade has passed since the United States opened Camp Gitmo at its military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It's long past time that it is closed....

This preamble is an attempt to forestall any ideations at ascribing to me any political label.In the past, whenever I criticised the People's National Party (PNP), I was labelled a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporter, and vice versa....

Save in good times, spend in bad. That was the basic advice given by John Maynard Keynes to governments. Use fiscal policy to smooth over business cycles....

It would be understandable if recent events in this country distracted Jamaican public officials, including the former prime minister, Mr P.J. Patterson, from concentrating too closely on developments in Haiti.

Some racists just don't give a damn. They know who they are; and they know why they are prejudiced against (or in favour of) certain kinds of people. Upfront racists are reasonably easy to deal with. You know where you stand with them. Or, better yet, you don't stand with them at all.

What an end to 2011 for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Jamaica! For the first time in Jamaica's history, on the occasion of our 50th year of Independence, there is a prime minister who has publicly stated that people should not be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Some JPs in Manchester are opposing the appointment of Sally Porteous as custos for the parish. As far as I can gather, their reasons are either that hers was a political appointment (to which they object) and/or that the position should be given to Calvin Lyn, as the majority of JPs are supporting him.

Allow me to to register my disgust with the attitude of some of the health-care workers of the Government in this day and age. Being asthmatic, I had an appointment at the National Chest Hospital on Tuesday, January 24. After being seen by a very courteous doctor, I proceeded to the pharmacy to collect even one of the medications prescribed to me.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer and novelist celebrated for his tales for children (including the Jungle Book, featuring Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) and the 'white man's burden' of imperialism in India.

What are your thoughts about how the Jamaica Urban Transit Company has been illegally using money taken from its employees to operate the company? ...

I am amused at the attempts of Chris Dehring, chairman of Lime Jamaica Ltd, to distance his company from the old Cable & Wireless (C&W) Jamaica monopoly. "I remember the Jamaica Telephone Company...

Everald Warmington, we note, has retabled a private member's motion in the House that would allow MPs to receive pensions at the same level of those parliamentarians who become prime ministers...