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Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Below are online responses to yesterday's letter titled 'JPS's duty to connect', by Michael Bryce, director of the OUR......

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Ever since the divestiture of JPS in 2001, everyone has benefited except the Jamaican public.First, Mirant made an obscene gross 400 per cent return on its investment in five years. According to our beloved former minister of finance...

Published:Tuesday | July 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

It is coincidental, but the timing of the High Court's striking down, as unconstitutional, of last year's interim amendment to the Bail Act was entirely propitious.That law, like legislation giving additional powers to the police to detain persons...

Published:Monday | July 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

I have always believed that the government of a country - especially one as relatively poor as ours - should never sell controlling shares of any essential service to a foreign concern (that is obviously only investing for a profit...

Published:Monday | July 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Quite sensibly, the police commissioner, Mr Owen Ellington, has distanced the constabulary from the declaration by one of his key lieutenants, Mr Fitz Bailey, that gays were the major players in organised crime, and led in the one that leeched money...

Published:Monday | July 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The sunshine of fortune and power continues to move west, rising over China as twilight descends on the United States. The fact that America stumbles badly towards its relative decline, bickering over debt ceilings...

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Last Friday, in deciding what I shall refer to as the Nation and Wright case, the Constitutional Court struck a blow for liberty and the rule of law in Jamaica by ruling that the entire Bail (Interim Provisions for Specified Offences) Act 2010, and most of the provisions in the Bail (Amendment) Act 2010, are unconstitutional and void.

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM

We all know of the exploits of Usain, Shelly-Ann, VCB, Brigitte, Melaine, Sherone, Kerron, Asafa et al at the Olympics and World Championships that have catapulted Jamaica to the very top of athletics.But how many of us know that the Jamaican flag is the ONLY flag in the world that doesn't share any of the colours of the American flag?

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM

If last week's statement by Mr Audley Shaw on the status of Jamaica's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was aimed at convincing people that things are on track and heading towards a fine outcome, we would say to the minister that his effort fell well short of the mark.

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM

As gas prices and electricity bills keep on climbing, consumers who had got some relief through reduced domestic food prices are having to cope with rising inflation. On my last trip to 'Curry' a week ago, bargain prices had disappeared, especially for vegetables and some fruits, reflecting the seasonal fall in supplies.

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The first time I went to Germany and saw BMW and Mercedes-Benz taxis, it was a real eye-opener. I don't mean the top-end, private chauffeur market. We're talking route taxi. I once took a BMW taxi from Cologne to Bonn to pick up a visa for Ghana.

Published:Saturday | July 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The IAAF World Youth Championships has just concluded in France. I congratulate our athletes for winning nine medals, including four gold. Half of a loaf is better than no bread, and they got more than half of the pie.

Published:Saturday | July 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Persons have been crying out for the Government to shut down the scrap-metal industry. Yes, shut it down, because persons can see their possessions, like the grilles of their homes or motor vehicles, being stolen.

Published:Saturday | July 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Psychiatry students were in their emotional extremes class. "Let's set some parameters," the professor said. "What's the opposite of joy?" he asked one student.

Published:Saturday | July 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

This Government generally speaks against the crash-programme work that was practised in the '70s by the Michael Manley administration. I have noticed a general trend in patching roads these days that is similar to the crash programmes practised back in the day.

Published:Saturday | July 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

For scrap-metal thieves, nothing appears to be out of bounds. Not even the dead. The country has been wrestling with this problem for many years and it seems that we are now facing an epidemic.

Published:Friday | July 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The post-mortem of Jamaica's disastrous showing at the IFNA World Championships will do no good if we don't face the hard issues which must be addressed.This was arguably the most prepared netball team to have left...

Published:Friday | July 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

It has been announced that the Government proposes to reduce the Common External Tariff (CET) on certain imports to 20 per cent....

Published:Friday | July 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

We welcome Mrs Marisa Dalrymple Philibert to the speaker's chair in the House of Representatives and note, unfortunately, that she is only the second woman to have had the job.Mrs Dalrymple Philibert, however, will be aware that our judgement of her...

Published:Friday | July 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Over the years, we at Family Life Ministries (FLM) have prevented many potential murder-suicides by helping hurting and angry clients find appropriate ways to express anger, which is very often a precursor to acts of violence and abuse.

Published:Friday | July 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

We note Police Commissioner Owen Ellington's detailed review, and robust defence, of the constabulary's handling of the Khajeel Mais murder case, including its decision not to publicly declare as a 'person of interest' the owner of the BMW X6 SUV from...

Published:Thursday | July 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Mr Desmond McKenzie is quite a fellow. He is chairman of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), the local government authority for the Jamaican capital and its suburban regions, but is more commonly referred to by his other title...

Published:Thursday | July 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE INDUSTRIAL-relations landscape took on a pleasantly scenic view last week when in a rare display of unity and goodwill, powerful trade-union leaders dispensed with years of differences and, in so doing, brought...

Published:Thursday | July 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THIS WEEK, negotiations continue concerning whether REDjet, a low budget airline, should be allowed to fly to Trinidad and Jamaica....

Published:Thursday | July 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE COUNTDOWN to the general elections of 1962 commenced on Sunday, April 1 with giant meetings held by the Peoples National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) at strategic points all over the island....

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