I was tuned intently to my TV on July 8, not because I am a Brazil fan but simply because I am a fan of football (I have been a consistent consumer of the game since I was a child....
The Gleaner ran on July 11, 2014 an article written by the Roman Catholic deacon and sociologist Peter Espeut, wherein it appears that he attempted to educate another Gleaner contributor, Keiran King, on the fundamentals of logic, through an analysis of...
Everyone knows that I wanted an African team to win the World Cup or one with at least a large number of black players. My hope for the final was that a pretty damsel and detractors would line up and kiss my black side ...
I doubt two more offensive words exist than 'Heil Hitler'. During the rise of the Third Reich in 1930s Germany (and continuing until 1945), 'Heil Hitler' was part of the Nazi Party's official fascist salute that signified commitment to that organisation's cause...
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding fired up a torrent of comments following his sharp criticism of the United States, which he charged as having "no moral authority" to punish Jamaica for alleged human-rights violations...
Several factors contribute to the world's successful and wealthy economies of all shapes and sizes. The key success factors include committed and determined leaders, rule of law that is enforced, an efficient public service...
Maybe the crew who launched the missile that brought down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine last Thursday afternoon were trained professionals, but it seems unlikely...
When Howard Cooke entered the world in the little St James sugar-belt free village of Goodwill on November 13, 1915, World War I, the centenary of which is now being commemorated, was three months into its second year.
Ever since Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller intimated her intention to review the buggery law, the discussion has increased on the buggery law, in particular, and homosexuality in general. It is both a philosophical and theological debate that if not managed or moderated properly, runs the risk of leaving many casualties behind.
Prime Minister (PM) Portia Simpson Miller is as pleased as punch. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) jetted to Jamaica to congratulate her as she felt our economic performance under the IMF programme was "just amazing". During the dining and pleasantries which followed, PM Simpson Miller thanked Ms Lagarde profusely for what she and the IMF were doing to Jamaica.
Easily the sound bite of the week goes to Howard Mitchell, the spokesman for outgoing Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington who has been pressured to jump into retirement without offering a mumbling word of his own.
Anyone still thinking of religion in Jamaica as a quaint and benign pursuit should be shocked by our local Taliban's escalating offensive against the minority LGBT community.
I could entertain the decriminalisation of ganja, though I support no form of smoking. This week marks 30 years since the death of my dearly beloved and deeply missed mother, one of the multiple millions of lives claimed by the tobacco industry.
It is a credit to Caribbean democracy that CARICOM has responded to concerns raised by a group of 140 organisations across 12 regional territories and communicated through the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS).
So, Owen Ellington has cut and run. How else can we explain his sudden 'retirement' announced after he'd just completed a routine Monday morning meeting with senior officers without a hint of retirement being communicated?
Heart attacks and earthquakes come with more warnings, but the departure of Police Commissioner Owen Ellington occurred so fast that the entire country was left flatfooted like Tsetsi Davis after being pummelled by Sakima Mullings in the Contender boxing finale.
In his article of July 6, 2014, Dane Lewis of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, referred to the use of "uncorroborated anecdotes to create a climate of fear and to portray the pursuit of equality and rights for LGBT people as something sinister".
Owen Ellington's sudden and unceremonious departure as police commissioner has left me, like many other Jamaicans, sad, suspicious and embarrassed. We know the criminal class, as well as Jamaicans for Justice when Carolyn Gomes led that organisation...
In an article published in The Gleaner of July 1, 2014, 'Silent coup against lawyers', Gordon Robinson, himself an attorney-at-law, complains about Jamaica's "new slave masters (World Bank, IDB, IMF, etc. [sic])" assaulting freedom and democracy...
It is an embarrassment, but it was quarter a century ago, under then Prime Minister Edward Seaga, that Jamaica last recorded a stretch of year-on-year economic growth above three per cent...
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) managing director, Christine Lagarde, evaluated both the credit and debit side of Jamaica's economic performance balance sheet year to date.
The view that Police Commissioner Owen Ellington might have been pushed into retirement as a result of direct pressure from the United States and Britain might provide more confirmation to militant church leaders...
This is our country, our land, our island, despite the love, support and respect for other friendly nations. It might not be paradise, but we are a very democratic country. No citizen, including those who are getting deported...
