In Focus

The Jamaican macroeconomic environment continues to improve quite impressively. All in all, the policy shapers and managers are doing mostly the right things. Consequently, the conditions for doing business are improving. Other sources also confirm...

Just over a week ago, the president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association (JMDA), Dr Alfred Dawes, and the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Harvey, were involved in a public discourse over the proposal by the Ministry of...

DR JEFFREY Meeks, Kingston orthodontist and president of the Jamaican Dental Association (JDA), has singled out for criticism the dental programme at the University of Technology (UTech) School of Oral Health Sciences, where our primary mission is...

I am going to remind my friend, Comrade Dr Fenton Ferguson, that despite the propaganda of the yes-men who call me often to say what a perfect job he is doing, that the first word in the name of...

Discussions surrounding the establishment of a regional final court have meandered for almost 50 years. Ironically, it was then prime minister and de facto JLP leader, Hugh Shearer, who first formally proposed the idea at the 6th CARICOM Heads of...

President Barack Obama visited last month, and like his supporters and antagonists in Congress, he has some ideas about the human-rights violations in Jamaica, as well as the way we have treated gays and how the police have allegedly maltreated...

This is the second of a two-part commentary by attorney-at law Donovan Jackson. Eminent jurists Justice Patrick Robinson (recently elected to serve as a judge in the International Court of Justice for a nine-year period beginning in February 2015)...

Even as the minister of water, land, environment and climate change, Robert Pickersgill, was dotting the 'i's and crossing the Ts for his contribution to the Sectoral Debate last week, RJR was reporting online, 'Caribbean reefs in serious decline.'"...

In recent months, there have been repeated cries for growth to be added to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity agenda. The IMF agreement requires creating as much revenue as possible (taxes, etc), spending as little as possible and using...

Human sperm count has been dropping precipitously over the last several years. Our beloved ganja, now decriminalised here for up to 2oz and legalised in a couple of US states, is supposed to be not only reducing sperm count, but also the quantity of...

The jury is still out as to why, for sure, Tiger Woods, the one-time wunderkind of golf, is now ranked 60-odd in the world. His fall from grace and leader boards primarily began after the revelation of his havinga series of mistresses, which...

Now we can breathe a sigh of relief. Well, actually no, because now tens of thousands of casual users of marijuana and almost 30,000 Rastafarians are going to light up and bun down Rome. With a stroke of his pen, the justice minister, Mark Golding,...