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...
Published:Friday | June 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
We are now into the difficult part of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement. It’s time to take the bitter medicine, public workers and your families. The IMF dictates that the wage bill can’t pass 9% of GDP, or the deal’...
Parenting is such a crucial and impactful job, but it's one for which there are no mandatory qualifications. Yet lives can - and are - literally destroyed if the job is bungled.An important study by the US National Academy of Sciences shows that "...
Published:Friday | May 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
I love all of this focus - this intense focus - on our children in crisis. The national outrage over the abuse and exploitation of our children has forced the Government to push for tougher legislation and has concentrated the minds of our citizens...
A major 201-page US Religious Landmark study was released by the authoritative Pew Research Center last Tuesday showing that Christians have been declining sharply as a percentage of the American population, while the number of atheists, agnostics...
Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
The county has finally been gripped with a sense of crisis over child sexual abuse and man-child relationships, which has for too long been a common feature of Jamaican life. Covered up, taken for granted, and ignored. Until our children started...
Published:Friday | April 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
Two Saturdays ago, the prime minister was in church and she had a message for the nation through the Jamaica Baptist Women's Federation: "Send your children to church even if you don't go. We have to go back to a kinder Jamaica, a gentler society....
Published:Friday | April 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
US President Barack Obama should spend the rest of his term in office waging war on international poverty with drone-like precision. It would seal his Wilsonianism and establish a legacy of not just peace, but development.Barack Obama has had the...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
A telling and poignant indication of Jamaica's vastly diminished geostrategic significance was demonstrated when the one American journalist who was given the opportunity to question President Obama after his bilateral talks with the Jamaican...
Published:Friday | April 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
I am encouraged to engage Dr Patrick White in a debate on atheism because of his respectful, courteous and measured response to my recent piece on morality. We don't have to be rude and abrasive when we disagree, and Dr White's article in The Gleaner...
Published:Friday | March 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMIan Boyne
Finance Minister Peter Phillips stamped his class last Wednesday as he closed the 2015-2016 Budget Debate in style, debunking myths and dispelling fairy tales.Pulling a devastating quote from Opposition Finance Spokesman Audley Shaw that the Jamaica...
