Commentary

THE MIGHTY Sparrow is a legend. The Grenadian-born entertainer who was christened Slinger Francisco is the unrivaled King of Calypso. A big man with a powerful sound!

Crime victimisation surveys, it has been found, tend to give a more accurate, and nuanced picture of crime in a country than relying only on incidents reported to the police.

The English language is the world's most endangered species. For example, in America, it hasn't been used for centuries. Due to some of its eccentricities (e.g. the bough of a tree is pronounced 'bow' but the trough from which most animals feed...

Change the law - The call by attorney-at-law, Tamika Harris ( Sunday Gleaner, July 25) for changes in the law that makes criminals of 16-year-old boys who have consensual sex...

It is not often that I find myself cheering on a politician. However, in a recently publicised speech, Audley Shaw, the minister of finance and the public service, bemoaned the wide banking 'spread'...

Bruce, mi son, a no everybody mek fi be prime minister. Trust mi. Mi know yu naa go waan hear dat. But God a God. An mi ha fi talk truth. Yu see di prime minister work? It no easy. No, no, no. A whole heap a problem. Yu ha fi have strong back fi dat deh work. Nuff Irish mash.

The party of Norman Manley is no more. The People's National Party (PNP) is now officially the party of the lumpen. They did not even have the guts to come out and vote against a state of emergency to which they were clearly opposed. Instead they 'abstained.'

There are many people who remain aloof and commonly react by shrugging at the spectacle of placard-bearing people demonstrating or protesting about poor roads, lack of water, and other vital services in communities.

Continuous vigilance - It is a burning shame that the Jamaican legislators failed to arrive at a consensus to extend the state of emergency in that troubled island.

There is that adage about children playing with matches: if allowed, they might just burn the house down, or cause serious damage to themselves and others.That's the vision left by Jamaica's political leaders with their...

At the end of this month, and going into the first two days of August, the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will host its annual agricultural show at Denbigh, Clarendon. We wonder whether they should bother.

There are many nasty strikes on the political career of Desi Bouterse, who was this week chosen by the parliament of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) member state of Suriname to be that country's new president.