Commentary

The images were stark. Protesters in a South African township burned tyres and overturned cars and attacked government buildings. When the police arrived and tried to restore...

Bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea and snuggled between Tunisia and Egypt at the coastline, Libya was obviously next in line for a social revolution...

If we are to go by China's burgeoning list of billionaires, then Chairman Mao Zedong would have been correct when in 1965, he accused "capitalist roaders" as being bent on eventually restoring capitalism in China. Deng Xiaoping, his successor, was among the capitalist roaders whom he saw as reactionary forces in the Communist Party of China.

There are mixed views about the fact-finding commission of enquiry into the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair. Some see great merit in the proceedings, and some see it as an exercise in sophistry by some individuals. Whatever the view, what is becoming increasingly apparent is that it is really a discussion about Jamaica's national security...

This is an open letter to Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry. We are writing as a group of concerned citizens residing in the eastern end of the parish of St Thomas. Most of us returned here since the early 1990s.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding came on national television and told us Jamaicans that he was fully aware of the fact that at least five of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members of parliament were holding their seats illegally since 2007, having won their seats while holding foreign citizenship.

"We ladies go see the gynaecologist. The doctor who knows us inside out, so to speak. No matter what you guys think, it's no fun being poked, prodded, and pinched by a doctor or nurse plus a 'witness', while you shiver under a paper smock on a cold steel table. The metal contraptions they use are enough to give you nightmares ... . This is all to the good of our overall health, so we do it."

My wife, Velia, was born on March 14, and for the last 10 years our celebration of her birthday has been overshadowed by what took place on March 14, 2001.

Below is feedback from our online readers about the resignation of Everald Warmington and the dual-citizenship saga.Mr Golding is admitting that he flouted the law and thumbed his nose at us all.

THERE IS plenty of fodder for sceptics who believe that Gordon House is a playground of political opportunism, with the electorate merely a means to an end...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the government's top legal adviser, Ms Dorothy Lightbourne, have made much of their fealty to, and respect for, the Jamaican constitution, including the rights, protections and privileges it affords the country's...

Leading psychiatrist Fred Hickling and psychologist Vanessa Paisley recently concluded that 40 per cent of our population suffer from some form of personality disorder.