In Focus

If ignorance is bliss, there are three of our politicians who must be the happiest persons in the world. Combined, their initials are, like the popular antihistamine, DPH. Call it garbage or trash talk, but the affairs regarding the National Solid...

What would have possessed Speaker Pearnel Charles to don a wig to preside at Parliament on Tuesday? Could it be that his usual salt-and-pepper coiffure is no longer chic enough for his new office?The transformation is of the order of a Damascus Road...

WITHIN OUR post-secondary and tertiary education, and training system, many students are pursuing programmes and courses, yet they are uncertain as to what their next steps in life should be. In other cases, there are graduates who cannot find jobs...

The number 1.5 continues to transfix the nation. It was the same before the election and it is even more so now that we have passed the April 1 threshold. This is one promise that Jamaicans are not prepared to be taken for a fool on.No pair knows...

I will leave the 'Man a Yard' and others to work out the details of the $1.5-million tax deal. So hopefully after they retreat, it is expected that there will be no surrender except to good reasoning.True, I am truly embarrassed that either the...

The issue of equal pay for women players is now the hottest topic in tennis circles. It started with the chief executive of Indian Wells, Raymond Moore, saying the Women's Tennis Association was a "lucky organisation" that "rides on the coat-tails"...

It is just as well that Good Friday in Jamaica this year was more about that football match at the National Stadium than the commemoration of the death of Christ on the Cross.Sure, some Christians went to church, and many will be in church today for...

First Person: We thought we were too big to fail.Second Person: I thought that was just American banks.First: No, no, it was us. At first, we were going to make it a December to remember.Second: Now it has turned out to be a February to forget.First...

Jamaica should thank the ECJ and the EOJ for their role in cleaning up the electoral system and in delivering a world-class general election.Things weren't always this way. In their chapter, 'Garrison Politics and Criminality in Jamaica - Does the...

A constant feature of our elections has been the controversy over the validity, or otherwise, of the ballots cast. Such occurs in the final count done by functionaries of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) and the recount done by the resident...

When teachers hear the saying, "If the student hasn't learnt, the teacher hasn't taught," there tends to be an instant pushback and a defensive response to the implications of that statement. This implies, for some, that "I have not prepared my...