This newspaper is not enamoured with either the attitude or behaviour of the Jamaican opening batsman and former captain of the West Indies cricket team, Mr Chris Gayle....
There is a growing sentiment among tax technocrats and government officials against tax incentives, despite the enormous economic benefits these schemes generate....
The current obsession in Jamaica with the politics of political succession - with special emphasis on the chronological age of political leaders - is overshadowing a recent event that has much greater significance for how the economic and political struggles between the social classes in Jamaican society will be managed in the coming years.
'Too hot for TV.' That's how LIME TV was marketing its supposedly scorching version of Vybz Kartel's reality show, 'Teacha's Pet'. CVM TV had to be carefully lukewarm for fear of the Broadcasting Commission. Riding on Kartel's notoriety, LIME TV was quite happy to be branded as the corporate sponsor of the titillating show.
In the October 18 issue of this newspaper, the mayor of Montego Bay was reported to have told members of the Rotary Club in that city that only 45 per cent of property owners in St James were compliant with respect to property tax.
When Andrew Holness takes the oath of office today as Jamaica's ninth prime minister, he will assume a position that, by his own admission, he has long coveted. The question now is: What will Mr Holness make of the job of governing Jamaica?
As Bruce Golding races to exit Jamaica House, a number of early retrospectives have been offered. Reading and hearing them, I've sometimes felt as if the ordinary meanings of words have changed into the opposite of what they meant last week.
Cedar Grove Estates was Established more than 11 years ago with substandard road infras-tructure that has become the bane of every resident's experience. For years, the citizens' association has fought with the local authorities and lobbied successive governments for intervention with regard to our roads, but to no avail.
The latest piece of ineptitude coming out of the government-run Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has the organisation fending off speculation about its leadership. And this far exceeds snafus such as missing carpet and chairs.
I would prefer to choose an old politician who is full of novel ideas over a young one who is so drenched right through with the wine of the old-style politics of divisiveness, lack of vision, corruption, and haughtiness that ours is so steeped in.
The previous Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) prime minister (PM), Patrick Manning, had a faith healer who was his closest confidante. The present PM, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has turned into a feet heeler.
With the greatest of respect to our teachers, many of whom are very hard-working, I am urging the new prime minister not to appoint another educator as education minister. It is not just because of a desire to see a break from tradition that I make this request; it's more a desire to see some desperately needed real improvements in the education system.
Residents of Mount Horeb have been without water for more than a month, and the National Water Commission has not trucked the precious commodity to the rural St Andrew community.
While we understand the sense of urgency of the energy minister, Mr Clive Mullings, and his wish to show policy success, he must, nonetheless, curtail any tendency to oversell achievements...
Two days ago, this newspaper published a letter from a reader accusing me of being a spin doctor for the People's National Party (PNP). My many PNP friends, and anyone who has followed my columns over the last two decades, must be in stitches...
IF WE WANT to get Jamaicans to plant more local produce, we should cut down on importation, which would force people back to the fields. That's the way to go...
LAST SUNDAY, at the invitation of Pastor Dukett Duncan, I gave a lecture at the Morant Bay Baptist Church, in which I refuted claims that Bogle and his followers had murderous intentions when they left Stony Gut to go to Morant Bay courthouse...
The smart money says that Andrew Holness might call a general election by yearend, but certainly by February. It's the kind of bet that would demand great odds to be against...
BARRING ANY unforeseen circumstances the three-term member of parliament for West Central St Andrew and current minister of education - Andrew Holness - will in a very short time become leader of the 68-year-old Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and prime...
THE IDEA of 'failing schools' is a serious one, especially in a nation in which money is in short supply. Tremendous sums are spent on schools and so it is something to which we must give a great deal of thought...
Last week's announcement that Damian Obiglio was stepping down as CEO of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) was framed as a personal decision, with the obligatory phrase of his wish to pursue "other interests"...
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions.A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. - St Thomas Aquinas...
Tamika Benjamin has written a very interesting column ('Teacher deficiencies multiply math misery', October 16) on the subject of the low levels of performance in mathematics...
