Commentary

Fortuitously, the People's National Party (PNP) launched its election manifesto on the eve of tonight's debate on the economy between its shadow finance minister, Dr Peter Phillips, and Mr Audley Shaw, who has had the job in the Jamaica Labour Party...

I HATE to distract you from the din of vuvuzelas, advertisements, mass rallies and bell-ringing which are features of campaign 2011....

A debate supposedly focusing on youth socioeconomic issues took place last Saturday night.It's only been four days, but I'm ashamed to admit that I feel a bit like Senator Dwight Nelson - I can't recall much from the performance...

Empty inanities disguised as campaign claims only expose leaders' lack of vision.I know. I said I wouldn't comment on the campaign. But I can't stomach the deluge of irrelevant...

Not surprisingly, the partisans have interpreted the People's National Party's (PNP) Dr Dayton Campbell's remark in Saturday night's political debate as a retreat from that party's criticism...

A big issue in the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) controversy is the charge of a lack of transparency with respect to the criteria by which roads were selected for inclusion in the programme...

The people who will vie for parliamentary seats in the December 29 general election must, by law, barring a major disaster or upheaval, be nominated today.Civil society, and the public, more broadly, no longer have an opportunity to influence...

Just when it seemed that things couldn't get worse, it appears that they have.

This is the final of a two-part series on the December 29 election.

In reference to the article published in The Sunday Gleaner on December 4, 2011, titled 'Discontinue grade-four math test', I somehow feel propelled to respond to the issues presented.

Last week, I introduced some people to the concept of 'lateral thinking', and several of them wanted some more examples. This is one. Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer's beautiful daughter.

For the past couple of weeks, I have started taking my morning walk along a section of the Ocho Rios Bypass, and I am quite amazed at the amount of garbage (plastic and glass bottles, Styrofoam lunch boxes, juice boxes, paper bags, tree branches, overturned garbage cans, the contents of which are spilled all over the sidewalk) which has been allowed to collect along the kerb.