Last week, the appointment of Dr Carl McKay Williams as the 28th commissioner of police was a major news item and was The Gleaner's lead story on Tuesday.
The nation is going into the second week of another academic year, but there is no end in sight of a ceasefire from the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), which looks like Beirut of old and the ISIS group of more recent vintage.
Beyond the news and those outrageously delightful cartoons in which Jolly Roger Clarke so regularly starred, bowl of rice and oxtail in hand, I didn't know the man very well or interacted with him as I have with many other members of Government and Opposition.
Thank you, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), for completing the first part of the highway system which bypasses Mount Rosser. We will be forever in your debt. Actually literally, it will take 50 years for the financial obligations to be fulfilled, after which the road will be turned over to the Jamaican people.
This writer concurs with The Gleaner's August 6 editorial, which stated that it would have preferred a new specialised law-enforcement agency created, instead of merging existing agencies to form the new Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force (MOCA), and we both give the authorities kudos for the intent.
I have spent a wonderful year as interim principal at Tarrant High School. I had been asked at the end of August, 2013 to go to the school for a term until a new principal was put in place. That term became a year. What a fulfilling year it has been!
Many small island developing states are thought to have economic strength because they enjoy middle-income status, and are therefore considered well positioned to achieve their development goals. However, the reality is often the opposite.
The 548-page neo-liberal bible, The Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015, was released last Tuesday, but the purists must be scandalised that heresies have crept into this latest version of the holy writ.
I read an article that appeared in the Sunday Gleaner on August 31, 2014, written by Dr Yvonnette Marshall, the executive director of the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ). I felt compelled to respond because the article was intellectually and morally dishonest.
Roger Clarke was the Miss Lou of Jamaican politics: Dearly beloved by large numbers of Jamaicans, young and old, for his warmth, wit, good-naturedness, affability, Jamaicanness, down-to-earthiness and even his chubbiness.
What makes persons not resident in Jamaica believe that we can't police ourselves and run a justice system that guarantees the protection of the rights of the average poor black man at least as well as, if not better than, in...
Jamaica's place on the international scene has been due largely to the successes of our sportsmen and sportswomen. From the days of George Headley, Herb McKenley and Arthur Wint to today's stars such as Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Chris Gayle, Jamaica has ruled the roost in sporting prowess.
I cannot help but notice that there has not been much public discussion on high transport costs facing rural Jamaica parents/commuters and the recent JUTC fare increases.
The Ministry of Justice has rightfully placed before Parliament a bill titled the Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 2014 with the objective being, among other things, automatic expungement and the introduction of rehabilitation periods for young offenders
