In Focus

The origin of football is an interesting story. Many decades ago, the game was played with an 'inflated pig's bladder' as a ball. There were no rules, no marked field of play. Everyone ran around kicking the ball.

As we prepare for back-to-school, I hope we had been following those interesting and inspiring stories of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) distinctions being carried by this newspaper. I hope some of those stories were shared with those young people who don't read newspapers.

Spookie, alias of Stanlie Parkins, did it for me decades ago. The 87-year-old St Andrew High School for Girls will not do it for its students. The school's handbook, with its commandments from Mount St Andrew, forbids it. All students must sit the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) only in the final year, grade 11. And that is that.

The historic 12-medal haul by our athletes at the recently concluded Olympic Games has set tongues wagging about when exactly Jamaica began pulling in multiple medals at these Games.

When a lawyer can honestly tell me that he rejects cases or tells his client to plead guilty when he knows that he is, he can talk to me about corruption.In the umpteen cases where an attorney is discovered to have defrauded his clients...

"So justice is far from us and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness, for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes...

The laws of a country reflect its character and direction and the issues confronted requiring legislative solution....

The selection of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as the running mate of Mitt Romney has intensified, and made more bare, the ideological divide in the United States presidential elections.

It was a rare moment in United States politics.

Is there a link between economic power and Olympic medals? Is a form of multi-polarity in sports emerging as political multipolarity sets in?

What are we leaving behind as the legacy projects of Jamaica 50 celebrations? Hindsight is 20/20, and in looking back, there are some things I would have liked to see done as part of the legacy of Jamaica 50 celebrations.

Sometime last year, before the general election campaign got into high gear, I was privileged to attend the launch of the People's National Party's (PNP) Progressive Agenda.