"The Pope and Britney Spears both did it. Peter MacKay refused to. Zinedine Zidane's involved a head butt, Michael Richards' a bad word, Mark Foley's a congressional page. There was no shortage of people making...
After his fumbles with the Budget during the last fiscal year and the embarrassment of the bungled tax package last December, we had expected that Audley Shaw would by now have a firm grasp of the finance...
Let us give credit where it is due. The magnificent performances of our athletes over the past three decades is a direct by-product of the annual Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships.
Our nurses should be treated properly. It is totally unacceptable that the Government is reneging on a signed agreement to pay nurses salary increases that were due from 2007...
The Budget debate this year is likely to be an acrimonious affair charged as it is with the controversial International Monetary Fund stipulations to be played out as events unfold.The reduced Budget laid on the table by Finance...
The controversy over Jamaica's continued refusal to extradite Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, or to have the matter adjudicated upon by the courts, grows, as Alice (in Wonderland) would say, "curiouser and curiouser".
IN EARLY February 2010, a woman with most of the markers of being a part of the social ballast of the society, that is, middle-aged, middle-class, meaning loosely, neither rich nor poor, and possibly charged...
It's quiet at the National Stadium now. Sponsors, athletes with their throbbing muscles, spectators, coaches, officials and the media have all gone, but the memories of a fantastic show will linger for much longer.
We suspect that among the first things that Mr Herbert Nelson, the principal of Kingston College, did on Monday morning was to summon one of the members of the school's athletics team for a good ticking off.
Perhaps it is time to bring a bit more realism to the long-running debate over what to do about the huge pile-up of cases in the Jamaican courts - more than 400,000, this newspaper has reported - and acknowledge that as things now...
The Editor, Sir:Please publish the following as an open letter to the prime minister.Dear Prime Minister,In the maelstrom that the topical extradition matter has become, there has been an unprincipled (some would say sinister) effort to have me, as the...
Based on reports carried in the press, it would appear that the Casino Gaming Act, which was recently passed by Parliament, did not spark strong debate or the kind of consideration of the downside risks of casino gaming that...
It was Mahatma Gandhi who said "to believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest". In election after election in post-Independence Jamaica our leaders have invited us to trust what they professed to have been their beliefs; but they have failed in almost every instance to live up to them
Experiencing the agony of other people calling you names is one thing, but when the name-calling comes from your parents it can be more than traumatic.
Trucking water has become a booming business in recent times as people try to grapple with the reality of dry taps all across the southern belt of the island. Rural folks are long accustomed to drought; however, water scarcity in urban areas has never been this severe.
My three-year-old son puts his hands over his eyes and sings with glee, "Daddy you can't see me!". To block out the incessant and 'annoying' noise of her baby brother, my seven-year-old daughter says. "Shut up Kareem, lalalalalalala, I can't hear you. You are soooooo annoying." I think I have the Government living at my house.
The Editor, Sir: I am a frustrated mother. I have three children; with one going to Wolmer's Boys and the other two at a prominent primary school in Kingston. I observed that my son going to primary school was not doing too well in grade one, so I had him repeat that grade. I visited the school regularly and was told that he was improving.
WE ARE disappointed, but not overly surprised, by the reported snail's paced take-up of loans under the Government's Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP).Most of $200 million the administration earmarked for the project...
The world watched the machinations of the US political system as President Obama and the Democratic Party tried to get the health-care reform legislation passed through Congress and Senate.
