In Focus

The United States, the much-touted home of the brave and land of the free, is edging further away from that legendary freedom, forcing religious, particularly Christian believers, to exercise bravery in standing up to its encroaching secularist...

The recent PNP internal elections produced no surprises. Karl Blythe, who challenged Portia Simpson Miller for the presidency, received 198 votes, just six shy of the 204 he received in 2006. Simpson Miller increased her votes from 1,755 to 2,471,...

I read with interest the article in your paper dated Wednesday, September 21, 2016, titled 'Pension plan revolt', about the Desnoes...

It is indeed unfortunate that Jamaica's Vision 2030 theme makes no mention of Jamaica being the place of choice where persons can retire and enjoy old age. The signs of this being possible for the substantial majority of older persons are very poor....

In Part 1 of this series, I examined the principle and practice of performance-based contracting and showed, among other things, that school improvement plans (SIPs), which are being developed and used by some schools, represent the key elements of...

What is the $1-million question? Well, give me 12 months and I will attempt to answer it. Thank God that despite another of his bad public decisions, the Reverend Al Miller has escaped a custodial sentence for his failed attempt to help a famous...

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.-Warren Buffett We spend a lot of money on education. Our public investment in education of 6.1 per cent of GDP is much better than the average 5.2 per cent of developed countries. As for enrolment at the...

"On an island overflowing with exceptional talent on both sides of the mixing board, to suggest that just one man was the most influential is perhaps absurd, but if you took a poll, Prince Buster would inevitably win by a wide margin. From Judge...

Yesterday was Caribbean Wellness Day with the theme, Love your body, treat your body right. And come next month, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education will be jointly running HYPE on the road in a tour of schools. HYPE is Health,...

Donner und blitzen! Achtung! That's the extent of the German that I know, but I now understand why rubella is called German measles because when something gets under Winfried Schaefer's skin, he gets very rash. In doing so, he may have given the...

Oil exploration in Guyana, onshore and offshore, dates back to 1917 and has intensified over the last two decades.There were many moments of frustration with each dry well or international incident over a maritime boundary. This frustration was...