In Focus

In response to National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) head Peter Knight's rebuff to my letter regarding the Negril breakwater project, stakeholders feel they have been treated like a collective adversary in this issue:

Virtually all countries in the world, outside of the socialist regimes, view entrepreneurship as a source of wealth and job creation.

After reflecting on the past year, and contemplating the year ahead, I began to set my personal goals for 2015. Then I thought about the kind of Jamaica I would like to see this year.

There is a strong case for crisis intervention in West Indies cricket. When the crisis leading to the termination of the tour of India broke some of us wondered if it was not time for the region's trade unions to play a role in helping to settle cricket disputes which are labour-management disputes.

Gleaner columnist Martin Henry is right to express concern about Jamaica's inability to effectively prepare our youth to adequately qualify for the job market, which has led to too many of them living on the margins of society, 'hustling' for a living, or migrating to other countries when that opportunity exist.

On December 24, 2014, the president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, commented for the press on the announcement of the new One-Day International (ODI) captain with the words published in your newspaper, " I do not pick the team".

Just when the National Security Minister Peter Bunting was drawing attention to the 16 per cent reduction in murders last year, provoking Opposition criticism that he was involved in an orgy of celebration, there has been an unsettling and dramatic spike in murders in only a few days of the new year.

We have opened up the new year with youth unemployment hovering around 40 per cent.

Last year was one of difficulties, globally and nationally: The Ebola crisis; the ISIS spread, the disappearance of two airlines in Malaysian airspace; the sinking of the ferry in South Korea.