Commentary

Parliament's dictate took its full effect last Friday when a High Court judge, in passing sentence on a convict, superimposed the legislature's mandatory 15 years, in place of the sentence that the judge initially thought appropriate, that of 12 years'...

David Smith has promised to lead American investors to US$128 million of the cash he raked into his Olint Ponzi scheme.Even if the entire amount is recovered, it is unlikely to be enough to fully reimburse thousands of fleeced investors who received no...

With more Jamaicans coming forward to relate disturbing accounts of alleged profiling, prejudice and mistreatment at Barbados' Grantley Adams International Airport, Ms Shanique Myrie's complaint of her horrific, frightening and humiliating experience...

Not surprisingly, the gangs of Gordon House, their confederates and apologists have been smarting from this newspaper's reference to them for what they are - gangs.Their effort, perversely, is to suggest that we have picked on the innocent and that this...

However they may have got there, what is more important are the positions to which opposition senators K.D. Knight and Norman Grant have now arrived. Indeed, we commend their emerging views on defamation reform to all members of the legislature, in both Houses, on either side of the aisle.

Believe it or not, the Jamaican Constitution covertly acknowledges the fact that 'Patwa' is, indeed, a national language.

"The best thing that ever happened to me was being fired from my last job." I heard that declaration on a programme called 'The World Tomorrow', which was broadcast on RJR at 8 o'clock every weeknight in the 1970s.

Recent events have called into question the competencies of judicial functionaries in both the Attorney General's (AG) Chambers and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).

Smokers are at their last gasp, but not the cigarette industry, or Big Tobacco as it is called.

Something remarkable happened in Mexico recently.Tens of thousands of Mexicans gathered in the main squares of cities across the country to demand an end to the "war on drugs"...

I suspect that many people hope that Jamaica's new Charter of Rights, now awaiting the signature of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, will begin a new era of 'smaddification' in Jamaica's history.

WHEN THE dust has settled after the Manatt-Coke enquiry, the political parties will stop, reconnoitre, gather themselves together and slowly slip into election mode.