What is the real surprise is not that there has been some violence against the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) with the take-back of subfranchise routes last week, but that there was so little.
If you want to go on eating regularly in a rapidly warming world, live in a place that's either high in latitude or high in altitude. Alternatively, be rich, because the rich never starve. But otherwise, prepare to be hungry.
Flexitime is a topical issue that still has grey areas for some sections of the public. I would like to share my understanding of the issue in the context of the Green Paper on Proposals for the Introduction of Flexible Work Arrangements and also the Jamaican Constitution.
In just under two weeks, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips will tell the nation how he intends to finance the 2014-15 expenditure Budget tabled in Parliament last week. Already, it is clear that this will be another tight fiscal year.
Having engaged flexible work arrangements since the tabling of the first Green Paper on the matter in 1994, fully 20 years ago, I noted with special interest the tabling of the bill on the matter in Parliament on Tuesday, March 25.
Keiran King is the hottest thing on the commentary circuit, a terrific find for The Gleaner. A keen practitioner of kick-ass journalism, he has all the marks of a great crowd-puller: He is irreverent, feisty, iconoclastic, boundlessly courageous, fiercely independent, cantankerous and sacrilegious.
The public has a right to know the full story of what has been taking place at the University of Technology (UTech) in relation to issues of governance, expenditure of public funds, adherence to procurement rules, equity, and trust.
A man who was overwhelmed, distraught and contemplating murdering his girlfriend and then committing suicide, as she had abandoned him for another, taking all he provided, including the house, was counselled by a Street Pastor one night. Other Street Pastors followed him up by checking up on him.
Martin Luther King Jr once said, "It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel just to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps." We, as responsible adults, should at least try to give our students a chance to improve their God-given talents.
Aren't you a little tired of hearing that we have no growth in this country? Crime is a major growth industry surely. Whether it's making illegal electricity connections that cost JPS (read: existing JPS customers) US$75 million last year or allegedly dismembering a gang member for losing two guns, there's no doubt that crime is booming.
The Church can flex its muscles all it like, it is going to lose its battle with the State on this flexi-week issue. Indeed, if the Church pushes too much on this issue, it is likely to incur increased criticism and cynicism, resulting in its further marginalisation.
A lot of focus has been placed in recent years on the size of the public service and of its wage bill. The Public Sector Transformation Project, which seems to have now run out of gas like JEEP, was widely regarded as a staff-cutting exercise.
So, another commission of enquiry is slated to take place. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is on record as expressing its willingness to participate in the impending Tivoli commission of enquiry as it wants to get to the truth of what happened during that fateful period in May 2010.
You probably think that I'm going to speak about the delayed assigning of the 'World Boss' to what could be more a chapter than a sentence. However, Justice Lennox Campbell is one of Jamaica's brightest and fairest legal minds.
Normally, curfews for children would be a parenting matter. While the recently announced community curfew strategy can give rise to some concern about its implications for the rights of children and parents, it could provide a golden opportunity for promoting and supporting healthy family life in the households of the selected communities.
I AM not always in agreement with much of what is generally expounded by The Gavel, but I must commend the column by Daraine Luton in The Gleaner of March 10 regarding the gender-neutral quota system proposed in Parliament by Senator Imani Duncan-Price.
People who control power concoct all kinds of clever arguments and rationalisations - and convince themselves, too - to hold on to that power. As Karl Marx said, "The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas."
The controversial policy recommendation made by Senator Ruel Reid has prompted further analysis of the demographic changes outlined in the 2011 Population and Housing Census and its implications for economic growth.
It was revered conservative US President Ronald Reagan who, in making the case for laissez-faire economics over government regulations, introduced the concept of 'the magic of the marketplace'.
It's an annual event which track and field fans across Jamaica anticipate. Student athletes are able to represent their schools and compete for bragging rights. Others revel in the excitement which they might be experiencing for the first time. Coaches anticipate the actualisation of their hard work.
