THIS WEEK'S game of will and brinksmanship between the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the opposition People's National Party (PNP) over the price of petrol was another lurid example of how the two gangs that have alternated as Jamaica's...
Below are excerpted comments from our online readers in reaction to yesterday's story, 'Battered by the law', which addressed domestic abuse perpetrated by members of the security forces.Leave relationships People with such antisocial...
The Bilingual Education Project (2004-2008) was a Ministry of Education-approved project to implement, from grades one to four, an education project which was intended to use both Jamaican and English fully ...
The euphoria of Champs is over. And in the harsh light of day I have been thinking about the growing trend of sponsorship of schools and athletes by big-name sports-goods entities...
"My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours, they are my own." That was the singer, Jewel, circa 1998."I'm going to change the world, feed countless numbers of hungry, starving, destitute people.
The physical and emotional abuse of residents of The Golden Age Home at Vineyard Town, recently highlighted by this newspaper, though shocking, will hardly have surprised many people.
This is the first instalment in a two-part series.The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms is about to become law without any specific provision for freedom from discrimination on the grounds of language.
In Wonderland, the March Hare (Bruceontheloose) was forced to perform at his own circus.was forced to perform at his own circus. So he spun a yarn. Trying to be Adrian Monk but bungling the impression, he began: "Hare's what might've happened. Perhaps."
Whoever principal Ruel Reid accords praise for Jamaica College's (JC) victory at the recent Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships, he deserves accolades himself - for standing for principle.Mr Reid was criticised for his policy of demanding minimum...
Step aside, Downer Recent questions swirling around the role of retired Justice Henderson Downer as it relates to the FINSAC commission of enquiry cannot be taken lightly.
The cynics will, perhaps, snicker at this. But more than most others in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jamaicans support law and order. A recent survey of people's attitudes to democracy in the hemisphere found that 70 per cent of Jamaicans believe that the law....
The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms is one of the most important pieces of legislation to be passed since our Independence from Britain in 1962. Its passage has come at a time when, as a nation...
Weather-wise, it's always hit-and-miss this time of year in the United Kingdom. I flew from Johannesburg as the South African summer settled into its autumn, and landed in the cold and dark dew of late winter.
Jamaicans have a love-hate relationship with the police. The extreme sacrifices that most policemen and policewomen make; the study and career advancement; the arduous and long hours that they work; the sometimes dangerous assignmen...
Below is an excerpted address by Shirley Richards, attorney-at-law and immediate past president of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, to the Lions Club of Kingston last Wednesday.
Two Saturdays ago, India, after a 28-year drought, won the ICC Cricket World Cup, and in the process, became the first host country to do so in a display of calm confidence, mirroring its steady rise as a global...
The George commission enquiring into the handling of the extradition request for former west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, and the subsequent engagement of United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will soon be coming to an end and a report published.
According to Wireless Intelligence figures, in El Salvador, the combination of the America Movil (Claro) and Digicel business will create a new market leader with 3.64 million subscribers, overtaking current No.1 Millicom, which has 2.73 million.
Finally, an entity in Jamaica with power and influence, namely, The Gleaner, in its April 3 edition, has stated, unequivocally, what I think most Jamaicans have known all along: that both our political parties have failed Jamaica.
