Commentary

VARIOUS TAXI associations across the island in the past week promised or mounted protests in response to a number of issues confronting operators in the transport industry...

HORSE RACING has been a popular and expensive pastime over many years and crowds still flock to Caymanas in 2011 to see them run, as they did at Knutsford Park from 1904 to 1958, or to Little Ascot at Old Harbour in 1954 to wager everything on the back...

We have now settled into Jamaica's 50th year of Independence (50th, since just as our first Independence Day marked the end of our first year of Independence, our 50th will mark the end - not the start - of our 50th year)...

In an economy largely starved of good news, this week's formal takeover by the Chinese company, COMPLANT, of three Jamaican sugar factories - Frome, Bernard Lodge and Monymusk - is welcome.But even more encouraging was the disclosure at the ceremony by...

Jamaicans, like others around the world, watched with amazement the television images of young people in Britain's cities trashing buildings, looting shops and engaging in what, from a distance, appeared to be sheer anarchy.We have been fascinated...

On this the social scientific literature is now pretty clear: sadly, if those hands belong to young men, yes. Take unemployed youth; add a recession, which further reduces job prospects; add a programme of government austerity whose weight falls...

Prime Minister David Cameron and the police chiefs in England have sparred over police tactics during last week's riots across Britain and ownership of the strategy that caused the unrest to subside. But it is the remarkable outcome of the events that has significance for Jamaica.

Mrs Elaine 'Layne' Witter, diva designer, was laid to rest on Thursday, August 4. She gave me a message to be delivered at her funeral: "I wanted to make more beautiful clothes." The restless creativity of the artist has finally been stilled. But Layne has left a legacy of classic designs that confirm her enduring reputation as one of Jamaica's grand icons of style.

On Monday, the headlines of our two dailies screamed "Tough times ahead" and "More cuts coming" in summation of the national broadcast by Finance Minister Audley Shaw the evening before. This, indeed, is grim news for many people, especially among the poorer classes in our society.

THE EDITOR, Sir: In a letter published in The Gleaner on Wednesday, August 10, Pastor Karl Archer, president of the North Jamaica Conference of SDAs, weighed in with full support for the governor general ...

During his stint in the finance ministry, before returning to his job at GraceKennedy and later becoming its CEO, Don Wehby proposed to put the Government on a system of accrual accounting...