Published:Thursday | January 12, 2017 | 1:36 PMEwin James
Opponents of capital punishment often put forward the proposition that it doesn't deter murder. That proposition is unprovable. But more than that, it disregards the reason for capital punishment persisting throughout history: the need for...
Published:Monday | December 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMEwin James
Soon Jamaica will have a new commissioner of police who could be a woman for a woman is the interim police chief. Speculation aside, I'm almost certain that whoever he/she be, things will remain as they have been under the outgoing commissioner, Dr...
Published:Thursday | October 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMEwin James
Maybe no election in our lifetime will have been as important as the one just two weeks away. What happens on November 8 will have weighty implications for America and the world.Well before the beginning of the 21st century, America began drifting...
Published:Friday | March 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMEwin James
No doubt President Barack Obama wants history to remember him as the first American president to visit Cuba since the revolution. Nothing is wrong with that, but he should consider what his visit in March will mean...
Published:Tuesday | February 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMEwin James
It's frightening but possible: America could soon have a kook for president, for the society is so politically correct and so dependent that Senator Bernie Sanders could be elected to the White House.That he is a kook no one can dispute. He is a...
Published:Sunday | November 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMEwin James
As a boy in the 1970s, I once became scared that soon I wouldn't have enough food to eat and place to walk on earth, for the United Nations and some liberals had forecast that with rapid population increase, we would soon run out of food and space....
Published:Tuesday | October 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMEwin James
Since Independence, the PNP has formed the government of Jamaica more often than the JLP, but the latter has managed the economy more successfully. Now, with an election in the offing, the PNP could be returned to power and the JLP once again be...
