Commentary

We expect that in short order the Golding administration will rescind its naming of the consortium led by Exmar MV as the preferred bidder for establishing an offshore storage and regasification facility for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Jamaica. Its impulse will be to retender the project - on which we suggest caution - a matter to which we will return.

The island's infrastructure, including roads and bridges, has come in for much scrutiny in recent times in the face of the $36-billion cross-country Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) initiated by the Government and funded by the Chinese.

For the residents of Lower/Upper York and the Seaforth communities, life has indeed been made uncomfortable by a network of deplorable and unpardonable roads which begin from the roundabout at Cottage Pen through York, up to Seaforth.

I remember when I first heard the term 'forefathers' used. I was at elementary school in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, preparing for what was then the College Exhibition (later Common Entrance) Examination when our teacher ventured into the complexities of civics and said that our forefathers came from many lands far away, such as Africa, India and China.

When is a gift a bribe? When is a 'show of appreciation' a kickback? These are matters about which there are international standards, and indeed about which there are some regulations in Jamaica; I think it would be true to say that in Jamaica they are...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, his information minister insists, paid for his recent bird-shooting holiday in Paraguay, not businessman Y.P Seaton. Indeed, Mr Daryl Vaz actually brought to Wednesday's briefing of journalists a negotiated cheque...

ON SUNDAY The Gleaner's cartoonist Las May, stereotypically and seasonally portrayed the missing dad and the dead-beat dad on Fathers' Day....

APPARENTLY 'TIS the season for inquiries, so we are well into the FINSAC probe with the accompanying 'noises' reaching deafening decibels in the various attempts to have diverse agendas promoted and/or discredited.

Jack Warner walked the plank before he was pushed. His departure may not remove the stench that still hangs over world football, but it provides an opportunity for cleaning up what Edward Seaga, the former Jamaican prime minister...

It's beyond satire. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, telling The New York Times what he had learned during his long tenure under Presidents Bush and Obama, explained, "I will always be an advocate in terms of wars ...

Howard Hamilton's rant in last Friday's Gleaner was illogical and intemperate.In it, he lamented that the leadership of horse racing's "stakeholders" had wimped out on a decision to refuse to nominate horses for Caymanas Park races...