One reason why I am an academic, and not a lawyer, politician or policeman, is because, for us, the concept of an 'inquiry' involves the pursuit of not just information, but truth.
"But I have won three elections" was how Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's then embattled prime minister - who has since changed the constitution to engineer himself into the presidency of the country, à la Vladimir Putin - was reported by The Economist, in June 2013, to have growled at his critics.
CAYMANAS TRACK Limited (CTL) managed to sidestep industrial action by its unionised workers last Thursday night, yet another sign that the Government-run promoter of local horse racing is in deep trouble.
The Outameni saga has developed into a full-blown comedy routine. With Easton Douglas, Portia Simpson Miller and Sandrea Falconer as lead actors, punchlines keep on coming.
Can you imagine a young Jamaican youth walking along a street in Savanna-la-Mar who is accosted by police driving in a marked patrol car? Then one of the policemen attempts to collar him through the window ...
Some Christians deeply deplore the commercialisation of Christmas, and as we go further into the season, you will hear cries to 'put back Christ into Christmas'.
On Friday, November 7, 2014, The Gleaner published an article written by Mr Peter Espeut, titled 'How to lie with statistics'. Mr Espeut commented on the press release by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on the findings from the July 2014 Labour Force Survey.
Today, I tackle two of the big stories of last week, getting them to do the tango around the common theme of the operations of a free press in a democracy.
It was always too much to expect that a black president would suffice to heal America's racial wound. But in a week in which the protests at a police killing of a black man in St Louis have reached all the way here in London, one can be forgiven for wondering if anything can.
It is from this group that Family Life Ministries (FLM), now widely known across Jamaica, the Caribbean and the diaspora, was born. These persons did not sit and just complain, as many do, but they resolved to do something, and they did.
The Outameni saga has developed into a full-blown comedy routine. With Easton Douglas, Portia Simpson Miller and Sandrea Falconer as lead actors, punchlines keep on coming.
Can you imagine a young Jamaican youth walking along a street in Savanna-la-Mar who is accosted by police driving in a marked patrol car? Then one of the policemen attempts to collar him through the window ...
Some Christians deeply deplore the commercialisation of Christmas, and as we go further into the season, you will hear cries to 'put back Christ into Christmas'.
On Friday, November 7, 2014, The Gleaner published an article written by Mr Peter Espeut, titled 'How to lie with statistics'. Mr Espeut commented on the press release by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on the findings from the July 2014 Labour Force Survey.
Today, I tackle two of the big stories of last week, getting them to do the tango around the common theme of the operations of a free press in a democracy.
It was always too much to expect that a black president would suffice to heal America's racial wound. But in a week in which the protests at a police killing of a black man in St Louis have reached all the way here in London, one can be forgiven for wondering if anything can.
It is from this group that Family Life Ministries (FLM), now widely known across Jamaica, the Caribbean and the diaspora, was born. These persons did not sit and just complain, as many do, but they resolved to do something, and they did.
