In Focus

The controversial policy recommendation made by Senator Ruel Reid has prompted further analysis of the demographic changes outlined in the 2011 Population and Housing Census and its implications for economic growth.

It's an annual event which track and field fans across Jamaica anticipate. Student athletes are able to represent their schools and compete for bragging rights. Others revel in the excitement which they might be experiencing for the first time. Coaches anticipate the actualisation of their hard work.

Professor Errol Morrison is in the battle of his life to complete his contract as president at the University of Technology (UTech). Having taken on the mantle in 2007, Morrison went with a stellar career in academics, peaking in one of the top three positions at the more recognised University of the West Indies (UWI).

Congratulations to the JLP and chief hatchet man, Desmond McKenzie. Velma Hylton has withdrawn from the Tivoli enquiry. Rumourmongering and rabble-rousing have again won the day. Yay!

We are so intoxicated about the prospects of escaping our perennial poverty through the booming US$140-billion global ganja business that we couldn't care less about any scientific evidence which might exist about its potential harm.

For centuries, the Irish have been the butt of jokes, some more cruel than others - none kind - whose punchline is stereotypical Irish dim-wittedness.

Yes! It is true. Some of us are now paying more for gasolene per week than what it cost me to purchase an Edgewater three-bedroom house in 1972.

What if ganja were to be made a legal product in Jamaica like sister drugs; tobacco and alcohol? Government could save around $5.54 billion per year in enforcement costs.

Kay Bailey of the conservative religious grouping, Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, served up a remarkably confused column (Sunday Gleaner, March 9, 2014) ranging from atheist morality all...

I wish to respond to the article of Friday, February 28, 2014 captioned 'Contracts commission questions UWI's expertise on mangroves'.

In an editorial on Thursday, March 6, this newspaper reflected the expressed concern by University of the West Indies professor, Anthony Chen, that comments by opinion shapers could lead to xenophobia and attacks on Chinese in this country.

Over time, I've tried to educate readers regarding the folly of needing external validation, of trying to remake yourselves based on somebody else, or pattern your thoughts to align with those residing in weighty tomes.