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Published:Friday | December 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Renamed and extended from three to four years, the new municipal corporations are off. But off to what?Most councillors (or is that municipal corporation representatives?), mayors, and deputy mayors were sworn in last Thursday. ...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Recently, in an article in the Observer of December 1, 2016 dealing with recruiting at Jamaica College, it was mentioned that another school that recruits heavily for sports purposes is Wolmer's Boys' School.The principal of Wolmer's is the...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Cuba was one of the participants in the Cold War between the East and West, manifesting the ideological divide. The United States, the Western power, was particularly concerned with the infiltration of communism, the ideology sponsored by the Soviet...

Published:Thursday | December 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Finally, the farcical distraction (aka local government elections)is over.I'm sure JLP leaders, candidates, and voters, God bless 'em, are of the view that the JLP 'won' these elections, but the truth is that the PNP lost. In the most remarkable...

Published:Thursday | December 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

This past week, the government of Antigua and Barbuda issued a deadline of December 31 for the United States to make an acceptable offer of compensation arising from a 13-year dispute over its online gaming services or face sanctions already...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Today, the remains of one of the most influential political leaders of the 20th Century will be buried, but not his memory or the controversy which was his constant companion throughout his extraordinary life. No one can be neutral about Fidel...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2016 | 12:00 AM

So, the 'worst leader the 20th to 21st Century has ever seen' had died. Described as a big dictator in halting syllables, Fidel Castro Ruiz, presidente de Cuba from 1959 to 2008, has gone on to meet his Maker. Well, actually, he, as far as I know,...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Everything that can be said about Fidel Castro - bad and good - has already been said since he joined everybody else who has passed. Including the at least several thousands that he and the Cuban Revolution have dispatched over close to six decades...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2016 | 12:00 AM

In an article in the Observer newspaper dated December 1, 2016, and titled 'No apology', Ian Forbes defended Jamaica College's recruitment of students based on their sports ability.I commend him for acknowledging that apart from JC, many schools...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

In November 2008, Barack Hussein Obama defeated Republican, John McCain, winning 365 Electoral College votes to McCain's 173, and 53 per cent of the popular vote, to become the first African-American president of the United States. It was a defining...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

I am not your 'perfect' bank borrower/customer. I am not a robot that always pay my credit card on or before the due date, and occasionally, I do go overdrawn.Moreover, I, like, I assume, most of my fellow customers, don't live on hunky-dory street...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Arguably one of the wealthiest planters who rose to prominence during Jamaica's era of slavery and sugar, John Tharp was not born in Britain, but in the island.Of English stock, his forbears probably took part in Penn and Venables' invasion of the...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

My November 6 column proposing the abolition of local government attracted plenty of feedback, but none more interesting than from one concerned citizen, Twitter handle @RealDuttyMan.It began innocently enough between myself and another Twitterite...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

As the night of November 28 eases into the early morning of the next day, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is banking on its organisational readiness, significant embers remaining of the fire of February 25, and its hold...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Andrew Holness' adoption last week of a tripartite framework to monitoring the new standby agreement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demonstrates his holistic, integrated and broad approach to economic development.The standard neo-...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Our opposition leader had a flashback to the days when 'no gyal, no bwoy' couldn't test her, and in a moment of fury issued a stern warning that she will return to the constituency of NE St Ann and won't go alone.Of course, I imagine thatshe will be...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Tomorrow, the Jamaica Labour Party takes charge of the majority of the parish councils, now rebaptised as municipal corporations.This will be accomplished with only a third or so of eligible voters turning out and through the hard core of the party'...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMLascelles Dixon

Irrespective of the outcome of the upcoming parish council elections, the Ministry of Local Government and/or parish councils, or municipal corporations, as they have renamed themselves, in the name of public safety, must come to terms with the...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The recent explosion at an illegal gas-filling plant on Jacques Avenue in the Mountain View area has once again highlighted the unregulated nature of the petroleum industry.The illegal gas trade has been an ongoing problem for quite a number of...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The victory of Donald Trump is a victory of right-wing populism, and in this case, the Right is also aimed at returning white people, especially men, to their 'rightful place' - above everyone else.Those on the political Right believe that socio-...

Published:Friday | November 18, 2016 | 12:00 AM

In what must be the most momentous US presidential elections, rural America led a path-breaking, working-class revolt against the neo-liberal policies introduced by Ronald Reagan and maintained, not only by both George H. and George W. Bush, but...

Published:Friday | November 18, 2016 | 12:00 AM

OK, so the American government has temporarily suspended the deportation of guns to Jamaica because, I suspect, of the revelations from the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) that there have been serious accountability gaps in the issuing of...

Published:Friday | November 18, 2016 | 12:00 AM

A national research and development fund will be established by the Government of Jamaica. Public policy will be guided by scientific evidence. And the Government expects to promulgate a new national science, technology, and innovation policy by the...

Published:Friday | November 18, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Identity trumps ideology. This is one of the most significant lessons from the victory of Donald Trump in the US elections. White nationalism, nativism and ethnic solidarity matter. We are in a post-ideological age in which issues of identity -...

Published:Friday | November 18, 2016 | 12:00 AM

So the improbable happened, Donald Trump won the US presidency, and based on the Electoral College votes, he won handsomely as well.There is no doubt that he stunned almost all pundits across the globe as by and large, following normal logic, a...

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