Commentary

MANY OF us were in black last Friday as a sign of protest at the way we were being treated by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS). Some were demanding that the Government 'do something' about the amount they were being charged for electricity...

RECENTLY, THERE was a televised news item in which a spokesperson for the transport operators read from the transport inspectors' contract in which their performance criteria are outlined...

Everywhere I turned on the Internet last week, I was bombarded with stories about Kim Kardashian's upcoming wedding...

The spectacular furore, mainly by the Church, regarding a public service announcement (PSA) featuring Christine Straw encouraging the embrace of homosexual family members could easily have been set in 15th-century Spain.History buffs should recall that...

If the People's National Party (PNP) wants to be self-congratulatory, it can claim that Jamaicans have all along agreed with it, no matter how they voted last time. For after nearly four years of soul-searching, public and private consultations, internal...

With a stream of data from the industrial countries pointing to an increasing likelihood of recession, and a global economic slowdown now in the cards, the world is looking for leadership...

There are many ways, the saying goes, to skin a cat. But the process is unlikely to be efficient with a blunt axe, wildly wielded in a crowded room.

Our annual celebration of first Emancipation and then Independence has come and gone.

I can never forget the sound of that car crashing on Trafalgar Road early in the morning of July 26. In the few minutes it took me to get to the scene, two young men had their lives snatched away from them.

Kudos to the staff of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency. In all my years of going to a government institution, I have never received such efficient and pleasant service.

The Government owns, through the Development Bank of Jamaica, 20 per cent of the shares of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) and, as a result, sits on the highest decision-making body of that organisation. Therefore, for every dollar JPS makes as profit, one-fifth of that amount goes to the Government.

In November 2010, I visited the York Park Fire Station and was shocked at its condition, particularly the old trucks and derelict equipment I observed lying around the compound, both at the front and back.