Published:Thursday | June 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMContributor
For me, the formula is simple. If you are seeking rights or privileges, you ought to take the responsibilities that come with them. That is the essence of maturity and adulthood.Last week, we got a double whammy from the Ministry of Housing,...
I was disappointed with 'CVM at Sunrise's' June 3 discussion on age-appropriate sex.The topic was something like 'Older men with underage girls', although it was acknowledged that the issue was wider since many 50+ lechers take advantage of very...
The present public-sector wage negotiations are being played out true to form. It could have gone no other way, and worse is yet to come. There is going to be a settlement, finally, on terms agreed on by the Government and the public-sector unions...
We entered the hurricane season on June 1 with most of the usual predictors forecasting a quiet season this year. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the well-named NOAA, says it will be a quieter-than-normal season. And the...
The high-flying Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) official and renowned lawyer, Ian Ramsey, once famously said of Edward Seaga that "only his mother could love him". But he was wrong. I love Eddie Seaga.I didn't always. In fact, I bitterly opposed him and...
It is the intention of the Islamic Council of Jamaica (ICOJ) to invite the Government of Jamaica to consider going a step further in making further changes in the matrimonial law to allow limited polygamy, subject to very strict guidelines.The...
"In my nine years in this organisation, there has never been a town hall meeting, a candid and direct dialogue with the secretary general," said a staff member, to our surprise, during just such a forum we organised during my first full week as...
The unacceptable reality is that, today, millions of children around the world, some as young as five, are still working for their survival and that of their families. Yet progress has been made and should...
It is rather frightening that we continue to allow successive governments and public entities to squander scarce financial resources in a country as ours where debt to gross domestic product is one of the highest globally, hundreds of thousands of...
Recently, I was told that a church leader was on public television claiming that, for him, a miracle was 'a piece of cake', and to support his assertion, he said he has blown on a person's credit card, which was 'maxed out', and the debt disappeared...
We Jamaicans are a complicated people prone to bewildering vacillations on moral matters. We demonstrated this clearly in two very different scenarios recently. The first was Jodi Stewart-Henriques' online tantrum on Usain Bolt's supposed...
Some things in the published comments attributed to Education Minister Ronald Thwaites up to Tuesday, June 9, regarding plans to amend how and where students are placed based on this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), are not adding up.The...
The first time I went to Relay for Life, I bawled my eyes out. Twice.My first bout of tears was brought on by tiny sandbags with candles in them lining the track of the Police Officers' Club. Stapled to them were pictures of a little girl who couldn...
It is said that 'belief kills and belief cures'. This highlights the impact that beliefs, even religious ones, have on our health, and this can be positive or negative. There are many religious practices that can have positive effects on, not just...
Which sporting association, including FIFA, suffers as chronically from maladministration as the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)?Pundits expressed shock when Sepp Blatter, whose name alone conjures images of urological accidents, was re-elected...
Despite the corruption tsunami currently rocking the administrative hierarchy of world football, the show must and will go on.The first high-profile FIFA tournament since the spiralling turmoil began kicks off later this week in Chile.Jamaica's...
According to information provided by the National Centre for Health, the most common health problems in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century were infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, influenza, polio, and other...
My fascination with the quote "money is the root of all evil" reached new heights when I read and listened to so-called commentators on sports and society trying to minimalise and in an underhand way, justify the clinging to power of desperate men...
Just before he sat down to a traditional Bavarian meal of sausage and beer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the start of the G7 summit on Sunday, US President Barack Obama told the media that one of the meeting's priorities would be...
If I felt that my employer was shoving stuff down my throat that I don't want to eat, I would become sick, too. After all, despite being a pesco-vegetarian, I would react very strongly if any fish was being stuffed into my body against my will....
The family is the basic unit of society. Our family structure has suffered repeated blows to its stability: from our foreparents being forced to leave their families in Africa to being chattels of slave masters without control over their own destiny...
I write in response to your editorial titled 'The post-Blatter paradigm' (June 3, 2015) which referred, inter alia, to the resignation of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, having been elected for the fifth time to that post a mere four days before.I...
There is strategic value in a structured alliance among countries that have common interests, face similar challenges and share even broadly the same geographic space. The majority of countries of the world are increasingly grouping themselves into...
In a perfect world, it would have been his swansong. Two home games against arch rivals Australia, echoing the India tour only 18 months earlier, in which he and the sporting world said goodbye to Sachin Tendulkar. On recent evenings, he might have recalled the electric joy and sadness that filled Wankhede Stadium, and allowed himself a similar daydream
Now that we have finally got over the Obama-Sister P $500-million love-in, isn't it time, we, as did President Obama, ask, "What a gwaan?"This is the time of year we pat ourselves on the back for having another record winter tourism season. Even the...
