THE EDITOR, Sir:Each witness taking the stand in the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry holds the Bible in his/her hand and repeats the words, "I swear by Almighty God to tell the truth, the whole...
We make no judgement on the suggestion, but it could be, as the information minister, Mr Daryl Vaz, implies, that the commissioners at the Christopher Coke extradition enquiry are allowing "grandstanding and point-scoring" to prolong the affair.
We note that three senior technocrats of British engineering company Mabey & Johnson have been sent to jail for taking kickbacks from Saddam Hussein's regime, thus breaking United Nations sanctions against Iraq when they existed.
"There is much talk about sustainable development these days. Everywhere there is a broadening consensus that one of the important goals of every country is to create the sort of economy that continually expands to satisfy the needs of all its citizens."
TO ITS credit, the Golding administration quickly silenced voices from among its parliamentary group calling for the licensing of journalists in late 2009...
The Police Federation and other public-sector employees have quite legitimate points of argument over how the Golding administration imposed a freeze on their wages two years ago, particularly in the absence of time-lines by the Government for honouring...
JAMAICA AND Falmouth were at their best on Thursday last week when the Voyager of the Seas came calling.For the near 3,000 cruise-ship passengers it must have been a unique experience to see hundreds of persons waving...
ONCE AGAIN, the education system is in focus.We once more hear, with growing concern, those in authority lamenting the fact that the levels of 'passes' in local and regional examinations ...
LAST WEEK Thursday, Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas made its maiden cruise to the newly opened Falmouth Pier.This cruise liner took some 3,000 visitors to the town of Falmouth.
Published:Wednesday | February 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM
As this newspaper reported yesterday, Jamaicans should begin to brace for a food-price spiral, starting, perhaps, with wheat products.While it has not yet disclosed the level of the hike, Jamaica Flour Mills, a subsidiary of the big United States...
Published:Wednesday | February 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Below are comments from readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com in response to the story titled 'Amend airport search policy, protect children, says Blaine', published in The Gleaner on February 22.Is there a policy?The first question must be:...
Published:Wednesday | February 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Not many people would have been comfortable with reports that Christopher 'Dog Paw' Linton was transported from the Horizon Remand Centre to the Half-Way Tree Court on Monday, but did not face the court because ...
Some genius picked the year's shortest month to celebrate black history. Every February, Martin Luther King Jr is revered worldwide. Very few persons ever hear the name Bayard Rustin...
Among the lines by wags around town is that the commission of enquiry into the Christopher Coke extradition affair is causing an explosion of business for Claro, the number three player in Jamaica's mobile-phone market.Crooks and bad men, the argument...
Watching the extraordinarily rambling and repetitive speech by Colonel Moammar Gaddafi's 38-year-old second son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, on Libyan television on Sunday night, I couldn't help being struck by how ignorant the man was.According to Saif...
We salute the scholastic achievers who have made it to the top of their classes through hard work and discipline.Thanks to the dedication of their teachers and, oftentimes, financial sacrifice of their parents or guardians.
The rule of law, buttressed by an independent judiciary and an adversarial process for arriving at truth, has proved itself a good antidote to arbitrariness and a strong foundation upon which to build democracy.That is why, despite its faults about...
Something very confusing is going on here. We were all taught that revolutions were led by charismatic guys with perfect haircuts, who read the most fashionable theorists of the day (at least, said they did), then went off to round up a crowd...
For months we have sought to get a clear response from the works minister, Mr Mike Henry, whether he intended to proceed with his showpiece, the US$65-million Palisadoes road project.
To the uninitiated watching the Manatt-Dudus soap opera, some guidelines to distinguish the prevaricators from the tellers of the truth may be useful. It is during the cross-examination of witnesses by lawyers that the exchanges are more dramatic...
I fell in a pothole and it ruined my Valentine's Day. It happened four years ago. I had planned an elaborate evening of celebration with my wife. We were to do dinner at an upscale restaurant and then go elsewhere for drinks. It was supposed to be a romantic evening.
The commissioners enquiring into the Golding administration's handling of the United States' request for the extradition of reputed gangster Christopher Coke will, in time, declare on the secret memoranda signed by the former national security minister, Dr Peter Phillips.
The joint University of the West Indies-Commonwealth Secretariat Conference at Mona last week brought together prominent figures in the Caribbean integration movement to discuss urgent development issues.
