It is alive! It is not tissue.It is a child, alive, breathing, heart beating, swimming, sucking the thumb with its little fingers, hiccupping, eyes, and lips...
Maybe it is that Prime Minister Bruce Golding and other members of his Cabinet do not share the same construct, or use the same measure, for accountability and transparency in government.Take the case of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme...
THE EDITOR, Sir:It is just over a week away, but I would like to propose to the JAAA that it immediately set up as a pay-per-view event, outside Jamaica, both 100m events at the upcoming SVL National Senior...
About 40 years ago, a very influential mover and shaker of a political party felt that importing illegal firearms to go to war with the opposing side was justified...
In my 2004 book, Globalisation and Inequality, I argued that political systems could be seen as self-regulating organisms, in which the health of all parts had to be maintained if the system, as a whole, was to function...
Today, we have been told, Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his ministers will review the report of the commission of enquiry into his administration's bungled handling of America's request for the extradition of reputed drug lord Christopher Coke...
Despite the efforts at ridicule and denigration by the partisan and jingoists, if anyone has emerged with reputation enhanced from the publication of the diplomatic cables on Jamaica by America's envoys in Kingston, it is the United States and its diplomats.
A favourite practice of those who hold defenceless positions is to engage in personal insults and obfuscatory commentary in order to disguise the bankruptcy of their arguments.
While the economic and social ties between overseas Jamaicans and their homeland have always been strong, the emergence of remittances as the largest source of foreign-exchange inflows has reinforced public understanding of the powerful economic value...
'Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the India cricket captain and inventor of the 'helicopter' shot (a full rotation of the arms before hitting the ball), is known to everyone as M.S.
CARICOM operates solely within the competencies conferred on it based on the revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. In order for CARICOM to begin to operate effectively, efficiently and for the purpose conceived in 1973, we must borrow a few pages...
Abortion and contraception are medically and morally different, and should not be confused.Conception refers to the moment at which the sperm penetrates and fertilises the ovum to form a zygote.
We have several times made the point in these columns that what is worse than formulating bad policy is the actual implementation of that policy.It is a concept that we commend to Jamaica's information minister, Mr Daryl Vaz, and more broadly to the...
Excerpted feedback from online readers to yesterday's lead story 'Weak Portia':Fresh blood, new blood neededTo be honest, neither Portia Simpson Miller nor Bruce Golding have any idea what it takes to run the country! Unless they gather fresh...
This Sunday, Power 106 FM facilitates a radiothon to raise $8 million to help rebuild the historic Mt Carey Baptist Church in St James.Mt Carey Baptist Church was destroyed in December 2010 by fire...
SEARCHING FOR an appropriate name for a community fair in St Elizabeth some time ago, Mrs Lurlene McFarlane from Nain came up with 'Ol' Time Picnic Come back Again' to capture the essence of a homecoming-style rural outing.I thought 'picnic' was a bit...
THIS NEWSPAPER is not, at this time, particularly taken with Mr Chris Zacca's decision to retain Mr Ernest Megginson as the point man on the government's liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, or the fact that he is being paid US$426,000 for the job,...
I HAD a conversation with my friends in my favorite after-work hang-out recently.During this conversation, I was again made to consider the level to which our erstwhile colonial masters have done a job on us where our acceptance of our black selves is concerned.
I got a good laugh last week. After an exhausting morning travelling on the Knutsford Express bus service from Kingston to Montego Bay, I settled in at Sangster International Airport for a grossly overpriced meal...
