In Focus

During her presentation of the damning 47-count indictment in the FBI's criminal investigation on FIFA, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch asserted that many of the individuals who were expected to uphold the rules that keep soccer honest...

Bruce Golding's article 'Civil society's role in governance' (Sunday Gleaner, May 10, 2015) frames very clearly the participatory paradigm involving civil society that is now replacing the purely representational. Although, as he observes, the...

It is the eve of Labour Day, and a visit to the site of the offices of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) a few days earlier left me with such a hollow feeling. It felt like someone had sneaked into the back of the Cockpit Country and...

I love all of this focus - this intense focus - on our children in crisis. The national outrage over the abuse and exploitation of our children has forced the Government to push for tougher legislation and has concentrated the minds of our citizens...

In the celebrated case of Arthur Williams v Andrew Holness, the Supreme Court declared:"1 ... the request for and procurement of pre-signed and undated letters of resignation and letters of authorisation by the leader of the Opposition from persons...

A major 201-page US Religious Landmark study was released by the authoritative Pew Research Center last Tuesday showing that Christians have been declining sharply as a percentage of the American population, while the number of atheists, agnostics...

Political polarisation occurs when an individual's stance and/or vote on a particular issue is dictated solely by identification with a political party and normally occurs in societies such as ours which subscribe to a two-party political system.The...

It's official.The director of public prosecutions (DPP) is of the view that egregious nepotism by a public officer in high public office is not corruption. I kid you not.The loud, rumbling noise you hear isn't coming from Caribbean Fault seismic...

The recent news that drones are being considered for use in monitoring Jamaica's marine space is a welcome one. I have long been an advocate of the use of additional forms of technology to assist with managing Jamaica's vast exclusive economic zone...

The more things change, the more they remain the same. The last World Relays in The Bahamas threw up another controversy. Shelly-Ann Fraser's absence from the 4x100m final is a hotly debated issue, and has reminded us that we have a long way to go...

It has often been argued that governments have no role to play in the development of cultural and creative expression. Some creative practitioners believe that governments will seek to repress the artistic voice if they accept support of any kind...

I remember taking a bus on my own to Kingston from Montego Bay at 17 years old for the first time and wanting to get to the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST; now the University of Technology, Jamaica). I was on my way to an interview...