In Focus

Timed to coincide with the commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the birth of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante, emigrant journalist Ewart Walters had his upcoming book We come from Jamaica - The National Movement, 1937-1962, 2014, previewed as the lead story of the Sunday Observer on March 2.

It is Gotham City and the dark knight rises, in the final in a trilogy starring the elusive and all-powerful Batman. He is a strange hero; no superpowers and no logical reason to be in the same category as Superman or Flash.

In his 2014 Budget presentation, Audley 'Are You' Shaw promised our problems would disappear as soon as we stop the dollar's slide.

It is the good contractor general (CG), Dirk Harrison, who should a tek wey himself from the leprous mayor of May Pen, Scean Barnswell. And despite the overwhelming, and, therefore, frightening support for the CG in his daggering of Mayor Barnswell, the mayor of Black River, Everton Fisher, is quite right: Dirk should sheathe his dagger and "say sorry".

As a 20 per cent stakeholder in the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS), the US$3-million loss suffered up to September last year must be more than bothersome to the Government. In 2012, the company raked in US$864.7 million in revenue between January and September.

Did the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) really think it could get away with its blatantly, transparently and unmistakably daring act of illegality?

In the last decade, tertiary institutions have attempted to design different methods to meet the demands of globalisation as it relates to teaching and learning.

In 2005, Dr Wykeham McNeill, acting as the member of parliament for Western Westmoreland, established a Beach Restoration Committee.

The controversy over the Energy World International saga and Phillip Paulwell's role in it highlight the importance of a free, robust and vigilant press.

Dennis Chung wrote an article titled 'Social behaviour - the missing link for Jamaica's development' on Friday, April 25, 2014. I endorse the perspective that he shared.

Perhaps because of the uncertainty of the 381MW project and the dismissive and accusative middle finger pointed by the IDP on the procedure leading to its selection, we did not pay full attention to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's Budget presentation.