Commentary

Last week, two fascinating books were launched in Kingston.

Warm weather destinations have been given a boost by the severe winter in North America and Europe that could be prolonged, based on current forecasts.

Caribbean people have a way with words. We use them, like Derek Walcott and Vidia Naipaul, to win Nobel prizes. We give them new meanings. We distort and twist them. We can throw them with greater pace and stinging accuracy than Vivian Richards running out the Australian batsmen in the 1975 World Cup. Most of all, we can invent them.

About a month ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill setting out the framework for the establishment and policing of credit bureaux in Jamaica.That piece of legislation will soon be debated by the Senate...

In earlier times, a court day in Jamaica was quite a spectacle.The arguments and debates provided fascinating entertainment, and people would come from north, east, south and west to witness...

The United States is a democracy run by an aristocracy. Remember that, and the country's politics starts to make a bit more sense. Of course, Americans will insist, they overthrew a monarchy.

On October 15 last year, I wrote the article 'Let 'Dudus' have his day in court', in which I argued that for the good of the country and also for the good of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, it was advisable to allow...

There was a time not so long ago when the progress of a Jamaican was measured by the three Vs.If one had a Volvo motor car, a VCR machine and a visa, preferably one issued by the Americans, he was adjudged to be sitting on top of the heap.

Some years ago a colleague introduced me to the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).I subsequently attended a conference in Orlando in 2002 where I presented a paper on the 'Evolution of the Jamaican Education System'...

Put Jamaica first - I am really encouraged to see The Gleaner editorial of February 28 on the 'Dudus' issue, and for what I consider to be an accurate representation of the malady affecting Jamaica...

I've spent a lifetime scorning ceremony.The last graduation ceremony I attended was upon leaving fifth form. I 'graduated' one Friday evening and then returned to sixth form the following Monday at the same school.