Published:Thursday | March 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
Boys and Girls' Championships passed this weekend with its usual fanfare of 'world's biggest high-school track and field meet' tag line, old boys and school faithful beating chests, slapping backs and high-fiving with eyes on the 'transfer market'...
Published:Thursday | March 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMGordon Robinson
Racism is an insidious evil. It's born of experience, then nurtured by undereducation, insecurity and isolation. It can infiltrate any society and metastasise without the existence of a single racist. Like everything else in this mundane existence,...
Published:Thursday | March 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMMartin Henry
Not being able to achieve peace on earth or to get people to beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, the United Nations has turned its hand to something else, designating March 20 as an annual International Day of...
Published:Friday | March 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
Finance Minister Peter Phillips stamped his class last Wednesday as he closed the 2015-2016 Budget Debate in style, debunking myths and dispelling fairy tales.Pulling a devastating quote from Opposition Finance Spokesman Audley Shaw that the Jamaica...
Now that the dust has settled in 'Greenland', the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) can catch its benzene-spiked breath and look through the smokescreen created by its leader. Andrew Holness had petulantly, like the child that takes up his football because...
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness delivered a largely statesmanlike budget presentation last Thursday, touching on some fundamental challenges to national development.There were some memorable quotes: "We have been so disappointed, frustrated and...
Once more the child homicide odometer is ticking and more of our most valuable assets have been killed. The death of 14-year-old Joel Lovelace, reportedly from gunshots fired by the police, is very painful, especially as this child seemed to have...
Ten days on and Jamaicans are still reeling from the impact of the most recent Riverton City dump fire, costing our economy approximately $300 million. With nearly 1,000 visits to public hospitals and others to private doctors for treatment of smoke...
In what one might describe as an unexpected phenomenon, both sides of Gordon House recently unanimously passed legislation aimed at accommodating geriatric members of Parliament. Formally known as the 'Over Sixties' bill and more colloquially...
Now that wi bun har out, let us see who will be stupid enough to take Jennifer Edwards' job as executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA).That jackass will be joining the...
The horrific effects of the latest Riverton fire have been well heralded, and, as usual, the various solutions are rehashed, the debate goes on and will probably dissipate with the exasperating smoke when we finally extinguish this seemingly...
The passing of Glen Archer, super Spelling Bee coach, at 61, has left many deep regrets behind -and some important questions.Glen was deeply committed to his vocation, his mission, and his ministry. So much so that he was prepared to skip offered...
I'm in Alberta, the province that produces most of Canada's oil, and there's only one question on everybody's lips: How long will the oil price stay down? It has fallen by more than half in the past nine months - West Texas Intermediate was US$48...
Published:Friday | March 13, 2015 | 5:34 PMKarlene Morgan
We write in response to an article by the Rev Garnett Roper published in The Sunday Gleaner of March 8, 2015. In that article, Rev Roper argues that the National Housing Trust (NHT) was set up to solve the nation's housing problem, and based on its...
Sure, things are not hunky-dory. But could the JLP have done better? Slightly better? Given the fact that the role of the IMF was to get us to live within our means, meaning reducing the average standard of living by at least 20 per cent (my...
Peter Phillips has taken his gamble on this $7-a-litre gas tax, expressing faith that the continued fall in global oil prices will minimise the impact on consumers and the economy, and knowing it is one of the most...
Every domino player knows that the worst domino crime is to cut and bring back. Obviously, no domino players exist at the finance ministry where the 2015-16 Budget was prepared, nor in the Cabinet where it was approved for...
"The most important thing that we can ever be in life is not to be prime minister or Usain Bolt or Shelly-Ann [Fraser-Pryce] or anybody else, but it is to be a good parent."- Ronald ThwaitesThe debate now engulfing the public sphere, catalysed by...
Last week, Jamaica was once again racked by the horrific deaths of three more children. Technically, two, because the 18-year-old, who was killed in the intentionally set fire in Hopeful Village, qualifies as an adult despite his being in high...
The increased allocation of $7.4 million that the Government has targeted to spend on the Praedial Larceny Prevention Programme in the 2015-1016 fiscal year has been misread in some quarters as a serious attempt by the State to finally tackle farm...
Last week, Jamaica Broilers and Caribbean Broilers slaughtered tens of thousands of young chicks without one hint of protest from anyone. There was no talk-show discussion on it. This newspaper totally ignored it.If humans are part of one...
Even when the regular tribalists come on air and try to push my red, green or orange buttons, I only appear to get flustered. However, Wednesday last, the bitter taste of swallowed tears and the lump inside my throat fought against the words and I...
Right up there with "We want justice!" is the cry of the people, "We want houses!" Much of the public anger directed against the National Housing Trust (NHT) over the cloudy purchase of the Outameni property, or parts thereof, has been sparked by the...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) was established in 1976 to address the housing shortage that resulted from a growing population and the inadequate annual output of houses by the public and private sectors. The Trust emerged out of the need for a...
St Lucian Prime Minister (PM) Dr Kenny Anthony in a lecture on Caribbean integration at the University of the West Indies' Trinidad campus recently concluded, as so many have before him, that the Caribbean Community has been "stalled at a crossroads...
