Commentary

Crazy as it may seem, some supposedly sane people are quite prepared to risk death in order to fit the current model of what it means to be beautiful.

A beaming and confident Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica's seventh prime minister, was sworn in last Thursday to commence a second stint as prime minister.

THE EDITOR, Sir:Kudos for the article 'Use CCJ funding to improve our own courts', by Robert Collie, on January 5.

"If she wanted silk so badly, she should have gone to Victoria's Secret!" This is just one of the comments which followed the announcement that the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago had been made a senior counsel (SC) by the president of T&T,...

We sociologists are trained to analyse society and events using certain paradigms, paying attention to certain particular variables, especially race and class....

This week's conviction in London of Gary Dobson and David Norris in the celebrated Stephen Lawrence murder case of 18 years ago has lessons for Jamaica, beyond the fact that Lawrence's parents are from Jamaica and that he was buried in this island....

Portia Simpson Miller will be sworn in today as prime minister of Jamaica. She led the People's National Party (PNP) to a six percentage-point victory in popular votes over the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...

Despite our good, free, though unsolicited advice, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller will have her grand swearing-in ceremony at King's House today.Her advisers expect that up to 10,000 persons will attend the function.

Let's forget about opinion polls for now, because the results of the December 29 election have confounded them all. The People's National Party's (PNP) dramatic landslide...

We erred yesterday in not explicitly telling Andrew Holness that G2K, his party's youth wing, is badly in need of fixing if the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is to rebuild its credibility.Much has already been said about G2K's arrogance...

Pollsters are busy wiping generous amounts of egg from their faces, but we must move on with Jamaica's business.First, polling science...

The evidence suggests that there's a PNP mole in the JLP's G2K organisation.I suspect it's the person who crafted the expensive ad campaign against Portia Simpson Miller. G2K has become the PNP's secret but reliable weapon...