Commentary

It's possible that Ian 'Booklist' Boyne believes that to keep his day job as a Government of Jamaica (GOJ) propagandist, he must defend the GOJ regardless of inconveniences like fact or logic.If that's the case (and I'm prepared to be corrected), I've...

It would be fair to say that when it came to managing the affairs of state, Muammar Gaddafi has done it his way. Always surrounded by a phalanx of stunning female bodyguards...

Jamaica having raised US$400 million in the capital markets within the last month, and by all indications will be recording single-digit inflation for the fiscal year 2010-2011, it seems all is well...

The Golding administration will find some comfort in the fact that it was not roughed up, as it was last year, in America's latest report on the behaviour of its partners.But if the Government listens closely, it...

I got an instructive email from Vybz Kartel last Wednesday in response to my letter to the editor published that same day ('More on Kartel and bleaching').

The Government and people of Jamaica are indebted to the Inter-Secondary Schools' Sports Association (ISSA) for the service it has provided Jamaica in creating the cradle to foster the development of the sporting talent of our youth at the...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has been hearing more about the corruption that exists at the Island Traffic Authority (ITA). It's a well-worn story. Scandalous details revealed in Auditor General (AG) Pamela Monroe Ellis' annual report has promoted calls for a total revamping of the licensing system.

Both our two main political parties are going to come out of the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry smelling like rotten fish, and I hope the televising of the proceedings is causing more and more Jamaicans to hold their noses...

Feedback to writers, Re Din Duggan, 'Jamaican Revolution', Wednesday, Mar 2Rant of ridiculeI feel compelled to respond to Din Duggan's commentary.

PUBLIC OFFICIALS should step aside when serious charges have been laid against them and the case is before the courts, in order to prevent the office from being brought into disrepute, and because the office holder would ...

WE MUST move on. We must do better. We must be positive. The spiritual battle between despair and hope requires that as Christians, we do not give up hope on any person, on any nation, on the world at large...

With the increasing carnage on the road these days, the National Road Safety Council should take a serious look at the placement of those caution signs that alert drivers to risky or unsafe conditions ahead...