Commentary

MUCH IS being made of the dramatic reduction in the incidence of murder and other violent crimes over the last few months - and rightly so! We have been the murder capital of the world for much too long. The police believe murders have drastically...

Pearnel Charles, the labour minister, tries very hard at finding employment for Jamaicans, to the point where you might wonder if he is confused as to whether he runs a labour exchange rather than heads a key economic ministry....

Sixty-two per cent (3.2 million) of the 5.2 million deaths reported in the Americas in 2004 were due to chronic diseases - mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes - exceeding...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding is finally heading in a direction that he might have gone long ago, saving his reputation some of the scars and keloids that will be difficult, if not impossible, to repair. And, more important, Mr Golding and his ministers...

IT WOULD be the most hardened cynic who would argue other than that the state of emergency imposed in May was necessary and that the country is still reaping the value of the action. For that, we need only point to the latest crime statistics...

I HAVE a brilliant business idea. As a young law student deciding on what area of law to focus I considered quite a few, eventually settling on the wildly entertaining field of corporate tax.

People and governments of the English-speaking Caribbean like to believe, and often claim, that their countries have a special and cherished relationship with the United Kingdom.Britain, too, encourages the notion.

We are glad that at long last the Urban Development Corporation has an office in Falmouth, Trelawny.We hope that it is adequately staffed.

Last week, Investment and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda conceded that the Golding administration, in its three years in office, has not had the success it promised in untangling the bureaucracy that so constrains business and enterprise in Jamaica."...

Not perhaps since the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine nearly a quarter-century ago have Europeans paid so much attention to, or been uneasy about, an environmental catastrophe in their region.

No, I don't mean eligible for marriage; for going around (in circles) with; or just for the occasional date. It's the missing men who ought to be eligible for tertiary education that I wonder about. On a visit last May to the University of Freiburg in Germany, I was vividly reminded that the business of 'male marginality' in universities is not just a local issue.

"Justice, Truth be ours forever" is a line taken from our national anthem. This is taught to our children from basic school. An anthem is one of the unique national features that bind a people together. Our anthem is also a fervent prayer that as a people we will be granted, indeed enjoy, not just justice, but truth at all times.