In Focus

It is a truism that the most important resource of any country are its people.

My friend Ian Boyne has written two columns lately, in which he has essentially argued the case that human rights and human dignity are ultimately grounded in Christian precepts.For Ian, human outrage at the killing of Vanessa Kirkland, as opposed to...

IT IS the single most important event in the lives of the majority of so-called Jamaican Christians, but so much of it is simply imagination. Perhaps it is good that we typically celebrate Easter as a big holiday with lots of bun and cheese and a major fair tomorrow.

DEAR GOD, please let Pearnel Charles be prophet and not loss.Mr Charles has been accorded wagga-wagga press coverage on a variety of issues over the past couple of weeks. A thoroughly Jamaican term, which the wily old grass-roots politician who was born in the back bushes of Macedonia, St Ann, in another generation, will thoroughly understand and probably use himself. Public figure, public utterances, fair grist for the mill.

OVER THE last 12 months, Jamaicans have seen the price of electricity increase by approximately 20 per cent.

WHAT SHOULD we expect of the governing People's National Party (PNP's) control of local government?

THE GRADE Six Achievement Test (GSAT) is held once annually for students from the primary-education system as a selection procedure to determine to which secondary schools students from the grade-six primary level should be assigned to continue their education. The exam is to ensure students are assigned according to academic merit, not wealth, nor any other form of influence.

'Christians have a ready and easy answer:

ANDREW HOLNESS' dream for Jamaica becoming the Singapore of the Western Hemisphere is a pipe dream.

Hubert DevonishContributorProfessor Errol Miller, the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), made a startling declaration in a national broadcast on television two days prior to the December 29, 2011 general election in Jamaica.

Weeks ago (February 19; 'Where's this 'growth' to come from?'), I predicted: "The US isn't decisively emerging from its recent recession any time soon. In fact, I guarantee you it'll be sinking into a new, deeper recession within the next 12 months ... . Rapid inflation is on the way both in the US and in Jamaica.

The quote is probably apocryphal, but if Mahatma didn't say it, he should have. Now we have something close to a global civilisation: most of the world's people work in similar economies, use the same machines, and live about as long. They even know most of the same things and have the same ambitions.