I HAVE SPENT the last three weeks in South Africa. The experience has been at once exhilarating and unnerving. South Africa is an extremely beautiful country. Yet, it is the people of South Africa that astound me....
LAST MONTH, head of the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), Senior Superintendent of Police Fitz Bailey, claimed that persons in homosexual relationships are the main perpetrators in the illicit lottery scam...
OUR 50TH anniversary starts now. The plans for celebrations will be rolled out shortly and Jamaicans will get ready to party as never before. But it cannot be all float parades and beauty contests ...
IF DAVID Cameron, Britain's Tory prime minister, is right, he has a far greater problem on his hands than the several days of burning and looting across the United Kingdom suggest.But more worrying for Mr Cameron and his ruling coalition...
Dr Peter Phillips, the shadow minister of finance and the public service, will today hold his first substantive press conference since being assigned the portfolio in Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller's shuffle of her spokespersons' council two...
A peaceful vigil for a black man killed by a police bullet that turned into fiery protests in London has held the attention of the world over the last couple of days. Scenes of looters plundering businesses and homes in broad daylight projected an ugly image...
When the Government says things are great, it typically means things are good. When it says things are good, things are probably just okay. If it says things are okay, we should, perhaps, start worrying...
WHILE LISTENING recently to a radio programme my attention was drawn to an illegal development and informal 'squatter' settlement which has blemished a large section of Papine road, an area of land owned by the Government....
THE FOLLOWING is true. This isn't one of Haemorrhoid's tall tales. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Bart, a successful corporate executive, worked for decades...
Finance Minister Audley Shaw's attempted clarification on the status of the Government's agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would have left Jamaicans just as confused as before his broadcast Sunday night.For even after the minister...
ONCE AGAIN it is the time of year when Jamaica celebrates Emancipation and Independence, which occurred in 1834 and 1962, respectively. As we commemorate and celebrate, we must remember our national heroes and many who have contributed not only to ending slavery...
I WAS fast approaching seven years old when Jamaica achieved Independence.I still remember the fervour surrounding the historic event. The air had a fresh, new smell the morning after our flag was raised for the first time.
LATE IN 2008 when the administration still believed that the sub-prime meltdown would be either good for Jamaica, or that this country would be immune to the ravages of the oncoming recession, this newspaper proposed to the Government a number ...
ON FRIDAY, July 22, 2011, a throng of outraged members of the Caribbean Diaspora in New York entered a federal courthouse in Washington, DC to witness the sentencing of Karl Rodney, the publisher of Carib News....
EACH YEAR the Fergus Simpson Foundation hosts a day camp for the children of Chapelton and the surrounding environs. The camp is usually held from Monday to Friday in the first week of August. The camp was first held at the Chapelton All-Age School, but because it has grown in numbers, it is now held at Clarendon College.
IF HE thinks about it, Finance Minister Audley Shaw will concede that his latest published remarks about Jamaica's relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hardly clarified the status of the country's existing agreement with the Fund.
While the unprecedented downgrading of US long-term debt by Standard & Poor's on Friday was not entirely unexpected given the political-economic conundrum in Washington, its symbolic significance is bound to be felt when financial markets reopen after the weekend.
THE PRINCIPLE of reparations was established long ago in the 1833 Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British colonies. But there was a catch to the act - not much different in essence from the original sin of catching Africans for enslavement in the Americas.
HIGH PRICES generate anguish and frustration to most, if not all, of us. They evoke great emotion and many times suggested remedies gain momentum as frustration and fear grow not because of their actual potency, but a perception that they will work.
THE EDITOR, Sir:It is very interesting and hypocritical that so many voices are now being heard supporting the cause of the scrap-metal dealers for being put out of business.
For sure, things could be better in Jamaica on this our 49th birthday. Crime is way too high, economic independence has eluded us for too long, the journey to achieve justice and equality has been long and arduous and universal education continues to be an unattain-able dream for too many.
Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into court on Wednesday in a hospital bed (his lawyers claim he is very ill), and put into the same kind of iron cage that so many of his opponents were tried in before they were jailed or hanged...
