Commentary

There is a serious and distressing new development in the sporting world in that because many official sporting events, especially those involving young people, are now being held on Sundays, this is discouraging many young people from attending worship.

JDIP has been touted as the "saviour to Jamaica's infrastructure". But will it save your road? Send us photos of your pothole-riddled road and ask Works Minister Mike Henry if yours will be saved, or if you'll have to wait on your hibernating parish council.

Three pieces about Muslims in the same paper on the same day (The Independent, July 25).The first is a local colour piece about how there are a lot more Middle Eastern tourists in London this summer.

If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, a movie is worth several million! My wife and I were pleased to have been invited to a private screening of the motion picture Ghett'A Life (which opens today), written, produced and directed by...

Earlier this week, Jamaica's prime minister, Mr Bruce Golding, added his voice to the recent chorus on the failings of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).The substance of the weakness of the Community, Mr Golding suggested to delegates at a conference in...

Recently, 37-year-old Gary Smith of August Town was beheaded. This was preceded by the decapitation of three persons, including a mother and daughter. The mother, Charmaine Rattray, and her 19-year-old daughter...

We are in sympathy with Mr Karl Samuda's position on the decision by his successor, Dr Christopher Tufton, to shut down the scrap metal industry and ban the export of the stuff.It smacks, as Mr Samuda says, of "surrendering to the rogue elements".

The banning of Mohamed bin Hammam for life shouldn't mean that FIFA is allowed to just close the books on the corruption scandal that has lately enveloped world football...

I have been deeply distraught over the recent beheadings in St Catherine and St Andrew. For a nation so wounded by the foulest of murders, this spate of macabre killings is unprecedented in our country...

It had not been said whether its recent agreement on the schedule for the payment of salaries to public-sector workers, outstanding for more than two years, will apply to parliamentarians.We are, however, not surprised by this lack of clarity...

I once watched a butcher kill a goat for a certain ritual. It was a horrible affair! I have since wondered what could possess one to choose such an occupation...

When i was recently invited to see a special viewing of the uniquely Jamaican film, Ghett'a Life, a portion of the email read: "...