Notwithstanding Mr Everald Warmington's seeming proclivity for spewing invectives at those with whom he is at odds, we presume as sincere his apology to the contractor general, Mr Greg Christie, the most recent...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by online readers to yesterday's lead story 'Betrayed - Simpson Miller says Golding caught in a web of lies, must quit'....
Mark Shields, the ex-Scotland Yard officer, who served as a deputy commissioner of police in Jamaica, is right about the failure, so far, to enact legislation allowing for the extraction and use of DNA material in criminal...
I sincerely and deeply empathise with the people of Tredegar Park in St Catherine. Rampaging gun-toting butchers massacred two families (adults and children) before deciding to firebomb a home in the community...
A committee, chaired by Barbados foreign minister Maxine McLean, has been given the job of searching for a new secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to replace the retiring Edwin Carrington....
Last year, the consensus among leading economists, including the chief advisers to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was that without massive public spending by the United States and other major economies, the world...
The disclosure earlier this week that Ponzi schemes are on the rise again in Jamaica should come as no surprise to anyone. These fraudulent schemes flourished during the last decade with the schemers promising investors high-yield returns, essentially by using new investors' money.
There are people who find that measuring a country by its Gross Domestic Product or overall official economic output is grossly unfair. They argue that if money can't buy you love, it definitely can't buy you happiness.
Finance Minister Audley Shaw and his central bank governor, Brian Wynter, perhaps need to have a quiet word, or two, so as to arrive at a consensus and a clear policy on the spread on rates between the Bank of Jamaica's instruments and what commercial...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by online readers to yesterday's lead story 'Olint boss indicted'.Don't believe everything you hear Many people always believe what they hear in the media - without even checking credibility...
Some people are criticising the contractor general, Greg Christie, for being "overzealous", presumably because he is enthusiastically investigating the awarding of government contracts, and - wonder of wonders - he is finding impropriety...
We agree with Mr Audley Shaw, the finance minister, that the crash, two years ago, of the UFOs - those unregulated financial organisations that 'guaranteed' stratospheric returns - provided ample evidence of the need to continually educate the public...
Back-to-school time seems to come earlier each year. The sales signs were up in the stores from early July, and the next two weeks will see the last-minute pounding of the pavements as parents rush to squeeze...
Ms Nadine Molloy was on Tuesday installed as the president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) and immediately set out upon a route that seems likely to lead to confirmation of our worst fear: that she will be like every other recent leader...
There is a clear lack of critical, co-ordinated thought accompanying the political responses to the crises in the food-production vs consumption/export sectors.
It is bad enough when private individuals ignore the sanctity of contracts and attempt, arbitrarily, to abrogate their responsibilities under binding agreements.It is worse, we believe, when states engage in such behaviour.
A German pop star tearfully apologised in court Monday for keeping her HIV-positive status a secret from three lovers as she went on trial for allegedly infecting one of them. She is charged with causing grievous bodily harm and attempted aggravated assault...
Today is Marcus Mosiah Garvey's birthday anniversary, but recent events in the land of his birth make a mockery of any celebrations for the hero whose life was committed to equal rights and justice. Is it only I who have...
It is good that Ronnie Thwaites, the parliamentarian, has rebuked criminals and made it clear that he does not want them to be part of the polemical process in his Central Kingston constituency and, more broadly, the Opposition People's National Party...
Andrew Holness, the education minister, is right to urge parents to begin to save for their children's university education, given the Government's plan to "rebalance" its education spend in favour of early-childhood...
Below are edited comments posted by online readers reacting to the news story that Education Minister Andrew Holness was encouraging parents to start saving early for their children's tertiary education....
WE HAVE finally been able to place our finger on the biggest problem facing agriculture in Jamaica, it having been confirmed by Glendon Harris, the president of record of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS)...
Reinstate tough cops - Why is it that so many people have to die in Jamaica and the killers never be found? This is crazy, or is it that the law enforcement is too afraid and not willing to take the risk to go and find these emotionless...
