Commentary

It is a measure of how successful President Obama's foes have been at marginalising him, that what was meant to be a major speech on the economy ended up looking so minor.

The latest Global Competitiveness report, published last week by the World Economic Forum, must make depressing reading for Dr Christopher Tufton, recently installed as the minister for investment during Prime Minister Golding's reshuffle of his...

On Wednesday, this newspaper's editorial supported a call for an "employee-contributed unemployment insurance scheme". This is, in essence, another tax on the already inadequate wages of the majority of workers. Those who argue for this tax say it is necessary in order to replace the existing redundancy law of Jamaica...

It's now 10 years since Osama bin Laden's attacks on America, which is still feeling aftershocks from the events. But it is unclear whether the United States, and for that matter, the rest of the world, have extracted any fundamental lessons from the events of that September Tuesday and their aftermath.

It was a dark and stormy night. This might be the worst way to start a novel, but it is exactly the right way to describe what happened to us in Antigua a little more than two weeks ago...

Below is excerpted feedback to Friday's Letter of the Day, titled 'Coke makes mockery of Jamaican justice': Catch criminals here I find it very interesting that over the past three decades, the United States government has been pursuing all the major...

The stand-off this week between government and opposition members of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) over the context and texture of the draft report on their review of the Supplementary Estimates ought not to have...

On the face of it, it is a little strange. Despite a bloody gun battle in which the security forces storm a barricaded Tivoli during which more than six dozen people are killed...

Online readers react to yesterday's story, 'Probe Dudus here', as called for by Peter Bunting, national security spokesman for the People's National Party (PNP).Worn-out issueThis, by now, is a worn-out issue...

WORDS ARE not sufficient to describe the joyful emotions felt and shared with the rest of the world when Usain Bolt anchored the Jamaica relay team to its record-breaking win in the 4x100 metres on Sunday...

I read with much interest and great delight the article on 'The Reverend Ethelred Brown: he mixed religion and politics'. I concur with the writer that Rev Brown is one of our many unsung heroes. He should definitely be honoured by our Government for the role...

In a letter to the editor published yesterday, Jackie Knight of Waterhouse hauled Anthony Hylton, MP for Western St Andrew, over the coals for the deplorable roads in her neighbourhood.