Bruce's Watergate? It is amazing how history is routinely repeated and equally amazing how arrogance and carelessness allow us to repeat the same mistakes made by others.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding may have made a marginal step towards repairing Jamaica's credibility over his Government's handling of America's request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." (Ecclesiastes 10:7) Heartiest congratulations to Audrey Marks on being appointed Jamaica's ambassador to the United States (US).
I knew a Hindu who practised more Christian principles than most professed Christians. Many Christians would consider him incapable of going to 'heaven' simply because he was born into Hinduism and, although exposed to Christianity...
By this newspaper's count, at least 409 people were murdered in Jamaica during the first 90 days of 2010. That translates to more than four persons being killed every day of the year between January and the end of March. And we suspect that we have undercounted.
Like most Jamaicans, when I read the newspaper headline last Wednesday, 'Drier days ahead', my instinctive reaction was, 'This must be false prophecy on the part of our weather forecasters'. Facing the prospect of even more severe inconvenience from water lock-offs, such a brief state of denial is a natural human reaction.
I had a revealing conversation with a middle-aged man in front of the Emancipation Park monument soon after it was unveiled. When I told him that I objected to the nakedness of the figures, he perplexedly asked, "Den a no so wi did stay inna slavery?" I managed to convince him that enslaved African-Jamaicans didn't 'walk street' in their birthday suit. They actually wore clothes.
The drought conditions affecting the capital city have had an interesting impact on people who live in those multi-unit locations known as strata corporations. Persons who had not previously acknowledged their neighbour's existence even in passing are suddenly united in the desperate search for water.
The performance of our youth at the 100th staging of the ISSA Boys and Girls' Champion-ships and in the finals of the 41st Schools' Challenge Quiz gives me hope for our nation. My hope lies not only in the excellence of the performance of our students, but in the attitude that they portrayed in the competitions - that of good sportsmanship and cama-raderie, of selfless giving and mutual respect.
As Christians around the world celebrate Holy Week with reflections on the life of Christ, his crucifixion and resurrection, we welcome the news that the international community has pledged US$5 billion to help rebuild...
"The Pope and Britney Spears both did it. Peter MacKay refused to. Zinedine Zidane's involved a head butt, Michael Richards' a bad word, Mark Foley's a congressional page. There was no shortage of people making...
After his fumbles with the Budget during the last fiscal year and the embarrassment of the bungled tax package last December, we had expected that Audley Shaw would by now have a firm grasp of the finance...
Let us give credit where it is due. The magnificent performances of our athletes over the past three decades is a direct by-product of the annual Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships.
Our nurses should be treated properly. It is totally unacceptable that the Government is reneging on a signed agreement to pay nurses salary increases that were due from 2007...
The Budget debate this year is likely to be an acrimonious affair charged as it is with the controversial International Monetary Fund stipulations to be played out as events unfold.The reduced Budget laid on the table by Finance...
The controversy over Jamaica's continued refusal to extradite Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, or to have the matter adjudicated upon by the courts, grows, as Alice (in Wonderland) would say, "curiouser and curiouser".
IN EARLY February 2010, a woman with most of the markers of being a part of the social ballast of the society, that is, middle-aged, middle-class, meaning loosely, neither rich nor poor, and possibly charged...
It's quiet at the National Stadium now. Sponsors, athletes with their throbbing muscles, spectators, coaches, officials and the media have all gone, but the memories of a fantastic show will linger for much longer.
We suspect that among the first things that Mr Herbert Nelson, the principal of Kingston College, did on Monday morning was to summon one of the members of the school's athletics team for a good ticking off.
Perhaps it is time to bring a bit more realism to the long-running debate over what to do about the huge pile-up of cases in the Jamaican courts - more than 400,000, this newspaper has reported - and acknowledge that as things now...
The Editor, Sir:Please publish the following as an open letter to the prime minister.Dear Prime Minister,In the maelstrom that the topical extradition matter has become, there has been an unprincipled (some would say sinister) effort to have me, as the...
