Plato's famous image of governance as the honourable command of the ship of state has absolutely no currency in Jamaica today. Thanks to the self-styled 'driver', Bruce Golding, the Jamaican state is now a crashed minibus. And all of us are accident victims.
Mr Greg Christie has been neither shy nor apologetic about placing the full weight of his office behind ensuring that the Government's procurement rules are adhered to, the contracting process is free of corruption, and that taxpayers receive value for money spent, ostensibly, on their behalf. That has been of benefit to Jamaica.
The proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child', is rooted in the worldview of many cultural groups on the African continent. The Igbo and Yoruba peoples of Nigeria are reputed to have translated this belief in their communal approach to child rearing. In 1996, Hilary Clinton used this proverb to be the title of her book on the communal responsibility in the important pursuit of raising our children.
Jamaica - the people of Jamaica who put the various governments in power in a "democratic" system - needs a lawyer. We, the people, need to hire a lawyer (maybe a foreign one or a foreign firm of lawyers ) to protect Jamaica from the Government's selling out of our land and resources to foreign powers such as Spain and China.
It was about 4 o'clock on the morning of December 14, 1960. I was sound asleep having read a 'Biggles' book until midnight. My father kept shaking me and I eventually tumbled out of bed, rubbing my eyes and complaining, "What happen? Thief come? The house burning down?" It was nothing as drastic as that but something much more momentous.
The celebration of motherhood this year maintained its usual commercial edge ensuring that florists, restaurateurs and merchants filled their coffers and that Mother's Day maintained its tradition as one of the most significant days of the year.
The recent revelations in Parliament by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that he sanctioned the proposal to engage Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to negotiate with the United States State Department in the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition matter is cause for serious concern and has left the Government and people of Jamaica in a very compromising position.
Shattered dreams - To bring closure and healing to the nation's soul, I harboured the dream that the prime minister would establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to probe the nation's history of political violence.
Supporters of the People's National Party (PNP) taste blood and are moving in for the kill! The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) hacks are turning up the volume in support of their compromised leader and party.
It is unlikely to have escaped the attention of the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) that, despite the deepening anger and disaffection with the Golding administration, Jamaicans are not flocking...
The decision of the editor-in-chief of The Gleaner to publish boldly the daily crime statistics on the front has got tongues wagging.This activist role of The Gleaner has not gone down well with some people.
The readers who responded to last week's column on the Jamaica railway had one thing in common. They all shared the same deep rooted and nostalgic memories from past association with a railroad that had become a special part of their lives.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, we conclude, knowingly and deliberately, misled Jamaica about his, and his government's involvement in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.
We hope Prime Minister Bruce Golding had time for reflection during his well-needed holiday. Perhaps, this introspection will allow him to discern the dangerous, imprudent and, on the face of it, selfish game he is playing with the fortunes of the country...
Among the most deeply engrained 'habits of the heart' of any nation is the tendency of its citizens to prefer either public solutions or private solutions to problems that arise in...
An email warning is circulating about a motorcycle gang that has been targeting persons who withdraw large sums of money from commercial banks in various parts of the capital.
United Kingdom oil giant BP Plc is teaching the world lessons that hundreds of scientists and one 'Inconvenient Truth' could not.Finally, we must acknowledge the reality that if we do not respect and protect our planet...
The man who this newspaper has chosen to call Canaan Israel in an effort to protect his identity and safety has every right to feel let down by the system.Except that to say 'system' is to suggest some...
Innocent until...The modern judicial system allows an accused person to publicly declare his or her innocence in a court of law, as a means of protecting that individual's rights under the Constitution.
Recently, when part of the multi-storey house under construction in King Weston (rural St.Andrew) collapsed killing the contractor and injuring four workmen, the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) put a stop order on further ...
Should the more intense of the negotiations on the weekend in the United Kingdom result in a formal agreement, a likely coalition government formed by David Cameron's Conservatives (the Tories) and Nick Clegg's centre-left Liberal Democrats is in the...
One way to pay teachers - Here is an alternative way that the Government should seriously consider in dealing with the debts they owe the teachers: Waive the income taxes that the teachers would pay from their monthly salaries...
Barely a year after global financial markets were pulled from the brink of collapse, there have been simmering fears that a European sovereign debt crisis could plunge the world into another round of financial unrest.
Dear Reader: Your newsroom, on Sunday, April 4, started a campaign to highlight each day the nation's murder toll on the front page of your newspaper. Then, 417 people were killed in 93 days. By 127 days into the year, this number jumped to 574.
