Commentary

My problem is not with the size of the Cabinet but how quickly and effortlessly Madam Prime Minister has gone back on her word. Or has she forgotten these words: "If I were in power I would not have such a large Cabinet, I would not give the country a breakfront."

Recently, I visited the Registrar General's Department's (RGD) Twickenham Park branch to enquire about the 'free' first copy of my child's birth certificate, which after his 18 months on earth we are yet to receive.

We are happy to note that day-night Test cricket, of which this newspaper has long been a proponent, may now be seriously reaching the agenda of the International Cricket Council...

Columnist Gordon Robinson argues that the main reason Jamaican governments have got taxation wrong is because they keep on forgetting that taxes are for the public good...

Before the dust had even settled after Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's rout of her political adversaries at the polls, great debates began raging over the prospects of this re-elected stateswoman and her Government...

We take Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller at her word that she will run a transparent, consultative and inclusive government in an effort to find the best policies to deal with Jamaica's difficult problems. Implicit in Mrs Simpson Miller's promise...

We nearly all agree that governments should not have direct control of sports in a country and should not be able to have a controlling influence on the picking of teams to represent that country.But is this as it should be? Does the idea underpinning...

When Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller sat down to consider her Cabinet choices, she was blessed with an array of talent. The prime minister also has the power to appoint ministers without portfolio...

When a judge leans over his gavel in a New York courtroom and asks me if it's true that the Jamaican Government is overrun by a drug lord, I feel acute embarrassment. When my Yankee friend asks me if it's true that "Doo-doos was the 'President' of Jamaica"...

I'm often asked to devote a column to the deteriorating standards of our modern music industry. I won't. By which I mean I won't disparage the state of our music industry...

The social network lit up during the excitement generated by the results phase of the recent general election. What caught my interest, however, was that cyberspace was peppered with angry/distraught Jamaicans expressing their wish to run away...

I respond to one aspect of the arguments advanced by Robert Collie in his article 'Use CCJ funding to improve our own courts', published Thursday, January 5.While no direct cost to maintain the Privy Council is incurred by the Government of Jamaica...