There is much pride and excitement in some quarters as Mr Richard Byles, co-chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), announced that the Government had met and, in some cases, surpassed all the key quantitative targets under the...
By three o'clock this afternoon, we will know who around 5,100 Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) delegates have chosen to try and beat Portia Simpson Miller and the People's National Party (PNP) in the next general election.
We can always depend on Booklist Boyne to trumpet some new academic guru at least twice per month.Additionally, we've been following his column's love affair with Bruce Golding for years.
By the time you are boiling down the coconut milk and the national Sunday dish of chicken and rice and peas, the dinner menu will be full of greens and two men would have taken off their sweatsuits, tucked in the belly, turned up the nose, faced the...
I am not prepared, like some of my fellow commentators, to write off Andrew Holness' chances of holding on to his leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), but I would not be surprised if Audley Shaw snatches victory today.
Jamaica having achieved an average of 0.8 per cent economic growth over the last 50 years is, by any standard, an unimpressive record, especially for an economy with the vast potential to integrate with the global commercial system.
As a guidance counsellor recently returning to my economically challenged homeland, Jamaica, from relatively affluent Trinidad & Tobago, I am moved to reflect on some of the similarities in our old British/Caribbean ideological stance vis-à-vis schooling practices.
If Michael Manley were alive, he probably would be ill again because of the debacle with security workers in this country. Worse, he would be terribly upset that the National Housing Trust (NHT) has not provided as many housing solutions as he wished, and that there are persons who are dishonestly failing to remit monies owed to it, on the pretext that their employees are not workers.
On Tuesday, November 3, 1987, the exchange rate was J$5.51 to US$1. This bit of data is easy to find as the Bank of Jamaica publishes on the Internet historical exchange rates from December 31, 1971 to now. In 1987, there was no Internet, no cell phones, and only scarce access to landline phones from a monopoly provider.
Sunday Gleaner columnist Ronald Mason recently made a proposal that "forced sterilisation is a last resort" - that is, if nothing else works in dealing with the recent upswing in violent crime. Robbery appears to be growing brazenly. Downtown, uptown, and the rural areas are feeling this onslaught.
Having passed the first IMF quarterly test in June, the Government is said to be confident that it has met all the quantitative targets for the second quarterly test ended September 30.
At last. I can die happy. What, you ask, has brought about this eternal peace of mind? Elementary, my Dear Watson, I've discovered that Diana McCaulay reads (well, used to read before she found me out) my columns.
One of the sharpest, most scintillating and intellectually stimulating analyses of the crisis facing Jamaica that I have seen was given by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding in his New York Caribbean International Network (CIN) lecture recently.
From the late 'Foggy' Mullings' old ultra-safe seat of South East St Ann, Lisa Hanna, as minister of culture, is imploring us to use the memory of our National Heroes as a rallying point to build a better nation in the 21st century.
All of my ghetto chromosomes kicked in last Tuesday when a fellow, whose face is bleached to a marked resemblance to a capuchin monkey, splashed his idea of a cleaning agent on my 'windscreem' and assaulted my newly washed vehicle while looking away.
Currency devaluation is often championed as an acceptable means of promoting export competitiveness, as though such a policy move will secure the benefits for which it is designed without any countervailing action by policymakers in the targeted export market, or by countries competing in the targeted export market.
After decades of failed United States-backed prohibitionist drug policies, several Latin American countries and their elected officials are now singing a new song - 'enough is enough, legalisation is needed for stabilisation'.
Nobody knows for sure how the 5,050 delegates of the two Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) camps have signed off on last week will vote, but it seems clear to me that the momentum is with the Audley Shaw's camp.
The recent landmark ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Shanique Myrie v Barbados will be studied and dissected for years to come in an attempt to plumb the depths of its true meaning and to discern its far-reaching implications.
More than 40 years ago, I started studying to become a doctor. It didn't take long for me to realise I'd undertaken a 24-hour-per-day task. So that unwelcome interference to my life's priority (studying the horse racing form) was quickly scrapped.
My advice to you is to bet in moderation, if you think you have to. I am not a gambler. I have never bought a Lotto or Super Lotto ticket, or a Cash Pot ticket, for that matter
Next year will be a big year in South Africa, a very big year. And perhaps one should have postponed visiting until 2014. But business before pleasure.
