There is likely to be much written in the coming weeks about the detail contained in the long-awaited Golding Report reviewing Jamaica's relations with Caricom and Cariforum.This is because not since the Ramphal report, "Time for Action", published...
In the October 2017 by-elections in South St Andrew and South West St Andrew, the People's National Party (PNP) came out big in both instances, but in the huge wins, all they did was remind us how repugnant the reality of garrison politics has been...
We may laugh along with our leaders about our personal productivity and constant overwhelm, but those who have worked in developed countries know that top organisations take time seriously.It's no coincidence. Corporate success relies on individuals...
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Written constitutions are driven by three fundamental philosophies, namely constitutional supremacy, separation of powers, and the protection of citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms.Written constitutions exist for the purpose of circumscribing...
Financial planners tend to have firm ideas about the most important goals: You should save for retirement, pay off debt and build an emergency fund.Buying a pair of high-end sneakers or an ultra-high definition TV is probably not on that list.But...
Published:Friday | February 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Uncertainty is clouding operations at the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) where Director of Elections Orette Fisher is in court fighting a decision by the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) to send him packing.To compound the matter, Fisher is...
With eyes wide open and brilliant legal mind blazing, legal luminary Justice Brian Sykes, 10 days ago, accepted his appointment as acting chief justice. Since then, there has been a tsunami of opinion sweeping over the land from legal minds and...
Managing director of the Housing Association of Jamaica (HAJ), Gary Howell, estimates that more than 20,000 residents in St James are living in informal settlements, with some just a stone's throw away from all-inclusive hotels in the tourist...
When I accepted the role of chairman of the National Food Industry Task Force (NFITF), I expected robust discussion based on scientific facts, energetic negotiations from rock-hard positions, and even agreement to disagree when necessary. What I did...
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Our culture of vindictiveness and revenge has fuelled the homicide rate in this country, because homicidal violence is an endemic pathogen, which, like cancer cells and malignant microbes, is...
The Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation has officially launched its theme song, Run the Track, Its Bobsleigh Time, for the 2108 team.The song was written, sang and produced by Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills and Jon Notar, with additional producing credits...
Jamaica seemed destined to join the rest of the world in the advent of blockchain technologies, which have created quite a stir and generated ongoing debate among researchers, academicians, professional journals, industry practitioners, media...
Stocks struggled to stabilise Friday as investors sent prices climbing, then slumping in unsteady trading a day after the market entered its first correction in two years.The Dow rebounded 330 points by the end of the session.The up-and-down swings...
The resilient tourism sector continues to be the leading catalyst of economic development in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean Basin, bringing valuable investments to our shores, generating one in every four jobs and forging many critical sectorial...
Published:Friday | February 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMDamion Gordon
The current crisis of public insecurity that afflicts the country has caused many to revisit the perennial debate about Jamaica being a failed state. Of course, even before the recent upsurge in violent crimes, many Jamaicans had already diagnosed...
The state of public emergency imposed by the Holness administration in St James last month has staunched the bloodletting by criminals there.In the first 37 days of 2018, a dozen homicides were recorded in the parish. That's nine, or 43 per cent,...
Published:Saturday | February 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Hit by a barrage of customer complaints and expressions of concern from the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and the watchdog Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) when he took over as the new chief executive officer of Digicel Jamaica last...
Published:Saturday | February 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Poor informal communities across Jamaica tend to feature heavily as crime hotspots, but the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) says it has been doing its part to make some of these areas safer.Managing director of the HAJ, Gary Howell, named the...