In recent times, both Bill Johnson and Don Anderson, who could be credited as Jamaica's most renowned and credible pollsters, have done surveys looking at likely voting intention if a general election were to be called at the times of canvasses.
The decision by President Obama to pursue diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of estrangement has been hailed as startling, but it is really quite commonsensical and natural.
The fundamental question is whether the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) would offer an improvement to the services provided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. No one can contend that this is the case.
President Barack Obama has taken the historic decision for the United States to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba after they were closed by Washington in 1961 after the Cuban revolution. By this action, President Obama has removed from this region one of the enduring Cold War features.
The introduction of a new provision that deals specifically with forced anal penetration could result in the existing law being interpreted as dealing only with consensual anal penetration.
December 10 was the United Nations' International Human Rights Day. Jamaica celebrated the day with high international recognition and commendation for religious freedom.
Despite the illusion of a worldwide deepening of democracy created by more nations holding frequent elections; expanded private freedoms in formerly repressive countries; burgeoning transparency's new best friend, social media (anyone with a Twitter account or Facebook page can pretend he/she's a journalist), press freedom has never been more vulnerable nor censorship more prevalent.
The matter of accountability by permanent secretaries is once again an issue in our Parliament and elsewhere. It is one to which I have given some thought and actually started some work on prior to demitting office as Cabinet Secretary/Head of the Public Service in May 2008.
I am in full support of The Gleaner's editorial of Sunday, December 7, 2014 that a real debate on the National Housing Trust (NHT) must take place for both the 'inarticulate majority' and the 'articulate minority'.
Perhaps the most dangerous reason advanced to support the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is that an indigenous court is needed to "reflect the moral, social and economic imperatives of its people".
I cried while listening to senior citizen Joan McCarty tell her heart-rending story of losing her grandnephew and son-in-law in that May 2010 Tivoli operation. I tried not to, but I could not help myself.
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) has laboratories in the science and technology and engineering divisions. The S&T laboratories include chemistry, microbiology and packaging, non-metallic and materials. All of these laboratories are in service.
