In Focus

GSAT! Stop the press!Congratulations to all GSAT students who just passed to the high school of their choice, especially to those scoring perfect hundreds in one or more subjects.Special shout-out to my son, Ethan, a student of Sts Peter and Paul,...

I am conflicted over this Government-public sector worker wage dispute. I could never have imagined that the Government would have dared to seriously suggest a 10% wage increase to public-sector workers over two years - after five straight years of...

From the way we carried on, you'd have thought it was Tessanne Chin inside the blue-and-white Boeing. President Obama's two-day visit in April, for him an expediency, was for us a brush with divinity.Reflecting the mood, this newspaper became a...

I was disappointed with 'CVM at Sunrise's' June 3 discussion on age-appropriate sex.The topic was something like 'Older men with underage girls', although it was acknowledged that the issue was wider since many 50+ lechers take advantage of very...

We entered the hurricane season on June 1 with most of the usual predictors forecasting a quiet season this year. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the well-named NOAA, says it will be a quieter-than-normal season. And the...

It is the intention of the Islamic Council of Jamaica (ICOJ) to invite the Government of Jamaica to consider going a step further in making further changes in the matrimonial law to allow limited polygamy, subject to very strict guidelines.The...

Last Tuesday, my column ('Bloodsuckers') highlighted the latest example of taxpayer sacrifice on the altar of revenue cash flow, namely the 'new' 3% 'withholding tax'.Like any good lawyer, using 700 words where 70 would do, I eventually got around...

The family is the basic unit of society. Our family structure has suffered repeated blows to its stability: from our foreparents being forced to leave their families in Africa to being chattels of slave masters without control over their own destiny...

There is strategic value in a structured alliance among countries that have common interests, face similar challenges and share even broadly the same geographic space. The majority of countries of the world are increasingly grouping themselves into...

Now that we have finally got over the Obama-Sister P $500-million love-in, isn't it time, we, as did President Obama, ask, "What a gwaan?"This is the time of year we pat ourselves on the back for having another record winter tourism season. Even the...

"FIFA fo fum! I smell the blood of a Trini Man." It is another epic fairy tale but it is literally going to be a Grimm brothers' story that doesn't look like it is going to have a happy ending. Like a long African river, our beloved football icon of...

It's time to find out if Cliff Williams, despite the ravages of anno domini, remains educable. It doesn't appear so from his May 10 article ('Gordon Robinson galloping above his handicap') in which he rambled; failed to address the issues; and, in a...