Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMGordon Robinson
Guess who wrote this:"I am encouraged to engage Dr Patrick White in a debate on atheism because of his respectful, courteous and measured response to my recent piece on morality. We don't have to be rude and abrasive when we disagree, and Dr White's...
I am not one who readily suggests writing off of debts, for anyone. I was not brought up that way.But I can see that circumstances can dictate that, in a few instances, this is a measure of last resort. That is why there are bankruptcy laws. This...
Published:Friday | April 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
US President Barack Obama should spend the rest of his term in office waging war on international poverty with drone-like precision. It would seal his Wilsonianism and establish a legacy of not just peace, but development.Barack Obama has had the...
Published:Friday | April 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMPatrick White
Times must really be rough for Ian Boyne and his fellow Christian apologists. They cannot explain why more than 2,000 years of prayer and piety have failed to produce even a single identifiable benefit.They cannot even explain why secular nations,...
Stinky is my adorable feline friend. He acquired his name because of the olfactory assault on my nostrils when he was found abandoned in deplorable conditions (so much for animal rights). He has since become one of the family. The Rev Ian Boyne's...
Published:Friday | April 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMMartin Henry
Nuff tings ah gwaan bout yah, Mr President. Pity yuh did'n stay longer to see how wi run tings pon di Rock Jamdung.You're a quick study picking up snatches of Jamiekan very fast and using them impressively well. The youth massive, steeped in...
The local government elections are due shortly and the Government has passed the halfway mark in its term.It is, therefore, timely that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) update the country on our steps in preparation for an election, whichever one the...
Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMDr Paul Golding
On Wednesday, April 15, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published the 2015 edition of the Global Information Technology Report (GITR), which features the latest iteration of the Networked Readiness Index....
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMGordon Robinson
Finally, the rumour that National Heroine Nanny never existed is laid to rest. Current political heroine, Portia Simpson Miller, settled the issue when, in response to heckling from an unruly set of gays in New York, asserted that the blood of...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMOrville Taylor
Well, unless your hypocrisy is bigger than the occasion itself, the arrival of American President Barack Obama last Wednesday and his meeting with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Thursday are historic. True, it was nothing in comparison with...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMKent Gammon
The final audit report of the National Solid Waste Management Authority 2013-2014 mirrors the governance of corruption.The irregular collection of garbage in the Corporate Area, in particular, is not only nasty...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMJames Walsh
The Government of Jamaica recently indicated that it intended to end the public-sector wage freeze after five years. This news was understandably greeted with great relief. Public-sector bargaining units responded with claims reportedly ranging from...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
A telling and poignant indication of Jamaica's vastly diminished geostrategic significance was demonstrated when the one American journalist who was given the opportunity to question President Obama after his bilateral talks with the Jamaican...
Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMMartin Henry
National Heroes Circle crab and corn vendors and the rest of us are stumbling back to a semblance of normality. Particularly in the capital city, and especially along the routes and in destination areas for the Obama visit.World Boss left for Panama...
Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMAnthony Hill
The Summit of the Americas meeting immediately following President Obama's official visit offers the opportunity for some thoughts on critical issues facing Jamaica now and the not-so-far future.The agendas and briefing papers have already been...
Published:Friday | April 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
I am encouraged to engage Dr Patrick White in a debate on atheism because of his respectful, courteous and measured response to my recent piece on morality. We don't have to be rude and abrasive when we disagree, and Dr White's article in The Gleaner...
Start at home, finish abroad.That's a rule of thumb for American presidents. They come to office with a mandate and a Congress which, if not sympathetic or even partisan, is at least reluctant to oppose the electorate's approval of the new leader....
The Budget Debate for 2015 having been concluded, analysts have been giving their reactions to the content and form of the presentations. In the main, the discourses can best be described as pedestrian. In most cases, nothing disruptive to make us...
Published:Friday | April 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMOrville Taylor
It can't be that he got a mouthful of Lewinski. It can't be that he snorted coke. It cannot possibly be that he sent thousands of troops to die in search of weapons of mass distraction. It cannot be that he smiled in the faces of Caribbean banana-...
Published:Friday | April 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMEsther Tyson
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; /Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned- William Butler Yeats. These lines aptly describe the violence and abuse being...
The recent judicial decision on the constitutional matter involving Andrew Holness and two opposition senators, Arthur Williams and Dr Christopher Tufton, omitted to thoroughly examine the role of the Senate.The media and the court largely...
Let's take a dispassionate look at two contending theories.1. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of...
The following article was submitted by the Public Theology Forum, an ecumenical group of ministers and theologians.When Lent, the 40-day period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, was first observed in the 4th Century, its focus was on self-...
Published:Friday | March 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMLeachim Semaj
Professor Carolyn Cooper's column of March 22, 2015 ('Mi no want no woman look mi!') has forced me to address some issues that I have been observing in our society. My hope is to arrive at some solutions to the not-so-quiet desperation that has...
Published:Thursday | March 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMClaude Clarke
Nineteen eighty-seven, the year before Hurricane Gilbert struck, Jamaica recorded its highest economic growth rate since the decade of the 1960s. The Planning Institute of Jamaica said the economy expanded by 8.0%. The Bank of Jamaica governor...
