In Focus

Christmas and end of year are here again. A good time to consider resocialisation - if we are not too caught up with flossing and blinging out and tormenting our neighbours with the blast of Christmas parties, although things may be quieter and more reflective this year, at least in western Jamaica.

Many years ago, when I was young and handsome, a friend inveigled me into taking a small role in a film he was making - a proper film, with a real budget and a commercial release, though, mercifully, it never got much attention.

On Trevor Munroe's morning programme this past Monday, in our discussion of the People's National Party's (PNP) symbolic failures in selling the 'pricey cabinet' and 'pricey vehicle' moves to the public, we hit on an intriguing possibility. Perhaps the public's disgust over ostentatious perks of office, and extravagant government expenditures on rent for buildings, etc. may be the first signs that popular sentiment is now shifting, that we are entering a post-bling era.

Yesterday, December 15, was to have been the final day for Argentina to pay more than US$1.3 billion to 'vulture funds'. Thomas Griesa, 81, a United States (US) federal judge for the state of New York, who had made several previous rulings on the matter, in a November 21 ruling had ordered the country to pay immediately and in full everything it owes to the plaintiff funds.

Language lies at the heart of the Christian tradition. Within this tradition, all humans originally spoke a single language. Once, however, they chose to defy God and build the tower of Babel, they were punished by each one beginning to speak a different language. They were cursed by language.

She is an ill-tempered bitch which always wants to have her own way around the house and when she is crossed, she lashes out, with primordial anger.

With the recent resurgence of concern in Jamaica regarding the prevalence of sexual violence, officials have attempted to address the warranted concerns of the public

As I read the article titled 'Another side to schoolboy recruiting' by Peter Brooks of St George's College (StGC) (Sunday Gleaner, December 2, 2012) supporting, generally, the business of student athlete recruiting (buying, in Jamaican parlance),

The following is a submission by the Jamaica Civil Society Coalition (JCSC).

IF THE University of Technology (UTech) students were privy to a Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) class while in high school, they, perhaps, would not have been involved in inciting violence against a colleague allegedly caught in a homosexual liaison on campus.

In reading Lord Justice Leveson's 45-page summary of his 2,000-page report on the phone-hacking scandal and other misdeeds of the British press, published last week, as well as reflecting on the American media's coverage of the recent Road to the White...