Commentary

Jamaican consumers face a tough period ahead with cost-of-living pressures intensifying - electricity bills, gasolene, and basic imported food items are all on the rise.

Sunday night in Cockburn Town, Grand Turk, my mind in a ferment after one longish hop from Antigua to Miami and two shortish hops from Miami to Providenciales and then on to Grand Turk, the second in an old and noisy propeller plane that stopped first...

THE EDITOR, Sir:A recent report in the Jamaican media of the sexual and verbal abuse of a Jamaican woman at the hands of a Barbados immigration officer, on her first visit out of the island, and apparently...

For the first time in the almost half a century we have been an independent country, the Lower House of our Parliament has amended an 'entrenched' section of the Jamaican Constitution - and an important one too: Chapter III - the Charter of Fundamental...

Last Friday saw the first nationwide protests against the Baath regime in Syria.Since then, between 10 and 37 protesters, according to media reports, have been killed. If these protests develop into a full-scale revolt, the regime's response may dwarf...

We make no comment about the Moriarity Report that was published in Ireland this week and made adverse findings about how Mr Denis O'Brien, the owner of the Jamaica-based telecoms company, Digicel, acquired a mobile telephone licence in Ireland a decade...

RECENTLY, ERON Henry, Baptist minister, launched his first novel, Reverend Mother, at his alma mater, United Theological College of the West Indies (UTCWI).

LIKE MOST Jamaicans, this newspaper need not have been reminded, as we all were by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, that the constitutional rights of our citizens neither begin nor end at the Kingston suburb of Liguanea.Of course, Mr Golding has now...

AS AN educator, I am always thinking about improving the classroom experience for our students. As such, I think about myself as a student. I was always struggling with 'paying attention'.....

Mr Barack Obama, America's president, it is often remarked, is a student of United States (US) presidential history - but apparently, not if the presidency is recent.Or, if that is not the case, Mr Obama has either not learnt, or has chosen to ignore,...

"The authority of the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to take any decision or action that he considers necessary or useful to the party is an authority that has never, certainly not in my long time in the party...

WE FIND insightful the view of Stanford University Professor Donald Harris that "historically we have had a big problem of implementation in Jamaica".