Commentary

IN A SHORT time, the Sunshine Girls will be leaving for the world championships of netball. They travel without one of our best and most inspirational players. From all reports, the netball administrators had done all that they should in order to avoid...

This newspaper gave serious thought to the matter before concluding that it was in the public interest, and to the national good, to publish information from communications between the United States Embassy in Kingston and the State Department, made...

"My fellow Jamaicans, I have spent the last several days in deep contemplation about the issues that have caused so much anxiety throughout the society ...

The drivers for change today are more numerous than what existed in past decades. Alvin Toffler, a former editor of Fortune Magazine, made the famous comment that there is only one constant today, and that is change...

Apparently, on receiving word that the (now) former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been arrested for rape, French President Nicolas Sarkozy shrugged and said, "Well, we did warn him."A 'serial seducer' with a history of sometimes...

People say that hindsight provides the clarity of 20/20 vision. The term is used to explain that it is easy to analyse and understand situations after they occur. It is often used as a defence against criticisms...

We expect that when a government regulatory agency speaks, it will be clear and precise, providing utilities with explicit directions and consumers with information that is easily understood and specific. That, unfortunately, we can't claim...

Before the shocking news of his arrest last weekend, Dominique Strauss-Kahn had gained recognition in global financial circles for his activism in helping to chart the course that brought the world from the brink of financial collapse three years...

A journalist for whom I have tremendous respect, The Gleaner's Byron Buckley, posed to me a few days ago three rather thought-filled questions, for which he said he needed my responses.

How do you make a hot rabbit stew? First, you pull him off a plane, then you put him in handcuffs and frog-march him to court, next you refuse him bail and finally throw him in jail in the notorious Riker's Island prison.

THE EDITOR, Sir:I could not help noticing the letter by Norman Thompson who proceeded to enlighten us on the various meanings of the word 'don' and to suggest that the uproar over Professor Beckles' recent comments about Chris Gayle were but a storm in...