As the Manatt-Coke commission of enquiry rambles on, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is to launch A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in the Short and Medium Term on Tuesday in the same venue that the enquiry is being staged, the Jamaica Conference Centre.
The recent news items in the Jamaica media, and elsewhere, on the researches being undertaken by more than one team of Jamaican scientists into the 'cancer-fighting' or 'anti-cancer properties' of more than one...
In September 2005, then Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and Opposition Leader Bruce Golding signed a Declaration on Political Conduct in Parliament in the presence of the political ombudsman, Bishop Herro Blair.
It's the scene in the high-tension drama we have all been waiting for: The main actor will meet his expected nemesis and we will all be on the edge of our seats to see how the encounter unfolds.
In everyday life, we assume many risks, beginning from the moment we awake to the moment we go to sleep and throughout the night. The fact that we get out of bed safely without breaking a leg, or cross a busy street without getting hit by a motor car, does not mean that these risks did not exist.
Bob Nesta Marley is by far the most famous figure Jamaican music has ever produced. Mention Jamaica, and foreigners who scarcely know in which hemisphere the country is located will cry in recognition, 'Bob Marley!'
Thomas Hobbes would have just loved to be in Libya right now. But he has been dead for a while. Since 1679, in fact. Hobbes, in 1651, published Leviathan, one of the most important and influential books ever published in political philosophy.
In an interview conducted just after his final concert in December 1983, and which was published in Pulse Magazine in June 1984, Peter Tosh asserted: "I a look fe peace.
It was the Tuesday, September 1, 2009 edition of The Gleaner that significantly brought to public light the request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the United States (US) on narcotics and firearm charges.
In every religious domain, every geographical sector of the world, every culture and in every organised human endeavour, the 'maximum patriarch' has historically declared war on everyone who was privileged to be born with a vagina.
Mark Myrie, better known to all of us as Buju Banton, being found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, knowingly and...
"Driver, don't stop at all/ drop this Arizona roun' a Alba Mall/ Driver, don't even hitch/ collect da likkle food deh yah and come back quick/ Driver, just rememba di damn speed limit/ caaw if yuh run in di Feds, my friend, dat is it." - Buju...
Almost 100 years ago, E.F.L. Wood, undersecretary to the British secretary of state, after participating in a three-month tour of almost all the British isles to assess the feasibility of regional integration, reported:
Statistics released by STATIN indicating that in 2009 nearly 400,000 Jamaicans aged 15-29 were either unemployed or out of the labour force tell a tragic tale about our country's future.
Peter Phillips lost it last Tuesday evening. Badly. Stung by a charge from government Member of Parliament Gregory Mair that he was a CIA agent, Phillips, after wailing that government members had put in danger the lives of himself and his family, threatened, "Mr Speaker, let them come, because I can deal with all of them."
Farmer Joe had a lot on his mind: neither Harry nor I could get in a word edgewise. He was irate, livid. Who will ever forget Farmer Joe, with cellular phone at his ear, among his cultivation in the massive Jamaica Labour Party advertising campaign during the last general election campaign, advising Sista P: "A nuh mi seh suh?"
Hosni Mubarak has finally capitulated under massive and intense people protest and has left the Egyptian government in the hands of the armed forces. The protesters wanted democracy in place of autocratic rule. Are they about to get it?
The Government of Jamaica is to be congratulated on raising US$400 million in the eurobond market. Coming a year after a painful restructuring of domestic debt, and with concerns about heightened debt in a context of protracted economic contraction, the achievement is even more remarkable.
The national vision statement in the Vision 2030 Jamaica, National Development Plan (the Vision 2030) is to make "Jamaica the place of choice to live, work, raise families, and do business".
