When Jamaicans think about crime, they think about murders, rape, abduction and other usual violent acts. This is especially true for those in non-farming households and in many media reports. Yet the National Crime Victimization Survey Report (2013...
Michael Abrahams has set off another firestorm of controversy and outrage over his online Monday Gleaner column, 'The God of the Bible is not merciful', in which he listed a number of charges against God.In that column, he lambastes God for...
A leading newspaper, which shall remain nameless, reported the NE St Andrew MP's bold recommendation for housing development for inner-city renewal under the blaring headline, 'Buy them out! Chuck wants poorer Jamaicans removed from lands with rich...
In a highly publicised case in the United States, an Apostolic Christian county clerk who has consistently refused to issue marriage licences to gay couples, despite being ordered to do so by the courts, was hauled off to jail last Thursday for...
Refugees from the wars of the Middle East are pouring into the European Union (EU) at an unprecedented rate. So are economic migrants from Africa and non-EU countries in the Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, etc.), and some of them claim to be...
There has been a deafening silence around the resolution of the problem with the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) over the tour cancelled by the president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) earlier this year. There was a very glib comment that it...
I have avoided the education beat with this column, except for that one time I was, by implication, styled a mongrel leggo beast. And let's recall, if only for the record, that I was minded to agree with the man! Anyhow, the fallout from the recent...
In another 150 years, I am sure that Fenton Ferguson, Delano Seiveright, James Robertson and young Matthew Samuda will not be around. And up to this point, I doubt that any historical sociologist analysing the parish will find anything to include in...
September morning is here again. And they are back to school. Not only to books and government-provided tablets and classes and exams to fail and pass and to underpaid and often undereducated teachers. But to resume gangsterism and sexual activity...
Published:Friday | September 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMDelroy Chuck
My presentation in Parliament on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 was inaccurately interpreted as a form of gentrification, which was absurd. Indeed, I spoke mainly of depressed areas and never suggested the replacement of poor people's homes by middle-...
I honestly would like to write another column on the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, especially since Usain Bolt shoved the Gatlin challenge back down his throat along with a good dose of pride.Like every Jamaican and those who advocate...
"Only the blind would not see that elections are on the horizon," says the minister of finance, Dr Peter Phillips, last week (TVJ newscast). He must be right, for merely a week earlier he was advising a gathering of party faithful in rural Jamaica...
Last Friday, August 28, marked exactly one year since Roger Clarke, Jamaica's longest-serving agriculture minister and arguably its most colourful politician of recent vintage, died of a heart attack, ironically, after successful surgery at a...
The level of arrogance of Gordon Robinson is matched only by the exhaustive extent of his knowledge deficit in handicapping, claiming and promotion of horse racing.This debate commenced when Gordon wrote that he stopped listening to 'Out of the...
Spirits were lifted in the country this past week. That is usually the case when the topic is track athletics. I must confess that I was not as confident of the usual Bolt/Shelly-Ann successes.On the men's side, my fears stemmed from the fact that...
Published:Thursday | August 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMDamian Wilson
The Ministry of Justice welcomes the opportunity to respond to letter to the editor titled 'Getting the justice system to work', which was written by Mr Brian Sale and published on August 15, 2015.Mr Sale's letter acknowledged that there are...
The second Duke of Buckingham's life of disrepute began when, at Oxford, he became involved with a young woman who his family had to buy off. He, like his father, went off on a grand tour of Europe. In Rome, he fathered an illegitimate daughter,...
Yesterday, the 51st staging of the annual Roper Cup Competition between St George's College and Kingston College was held at Sabina Park. Keen followers of this tournament would have noticed that in addition to the traditional clash of colours...
Usain Bolt's awe-inspiring, thrilling victories in Beijing were not just a triumph of talent and training. It was a triumph of will; a triumph of spirit; a triumph of character.Best-selling celebrity Jamaican-Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell puts it...
On World Mosquito Day (August 20), the KSAC and the South East Regional Health Authority teamed up for a town square meeting in Mandela Park on chik-V and ZIKV, two new mosquito-borne diseases. A much less exciting affair than the gatherings in the...
Crime and violence should not be left to National Security Minister Peter Bunting or to the police force alone; crime fighting should be everybody's business. Crime is not only affecting the People's National Party or the Jamaica Labour Party; it is...
I write in response to an article published on Thursday, August 20, 2015 titled 'Companies Office of Jamaica aiming for world-class standards'. First, the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) has realised that in this Information Age, it is critical...
Behind the electoral observers wearing vests emblazoned with the logo of the Organization of American States (OAS) who work to ensure the free exercise of the sacred right to the vote lies more than half a century of experience, of lessons learned,...
Just as Donald Trump will, despite his gravity-defying popularity, fail to get the Republican nomination, so, too, will Hillary, despite her multiplying problems and sinking popularity, almost certainly be the Democratic nominee in next year's US...
Jobs will be lost! This is how mergers work when there are overlaps or duplication of skill sets. With their proposed merger, there will be no way around this, given that both RJR and Gleaner are primarily known, respected and trusted for their news...
