"Five fi hundred!" You see them at the stop lights in their branded company bibs peddling clean, beautiful, just-ripe bananas in attractive packaging containing five fingers for $100, $20 apiece.
Andrew Holness might have renounced and is standing against old-style politics, but it is certainly serving him well in bracing off this challenge from Audley Shaw.
The controversy of a variable versus a pegged exchange rate has been ongoing for a long time. As a believer in the efficacy of a pegged rate, which I used effectively in the 1980s, I have repeatedly called for a research study to settle the issue. This has not been forthcoming.
WESTERN BUREAU:Schoolchildren from 11 St James communities got a back-to-school boost last Friday when the St James branch of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI) held its fourth annual school-supply donation event at...
WESTERN BUREAU:Identical twins Kevon and Keyen Gordon have their sights set on becoming professional farmers.The two youngsters, now 16, cultivate mainly vegetables on a plot of land behind their house in the rural...
A St James man who admitted to stealing two bottles of rum and two drink-mix packs while drunk was remanded when he appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday.Lloyd Campbell, of a Montego Bay address, pleaded guilty with...
FALMOUTH, Trelawny:The University of Technology (UTech) opened its western campus head office in Falmouth recently.The facility is located at the old Baptist Manse, which formerly housed the William Knibb Memorial High School...
WESTERN BUREAU:Lack of funding is preventing some of the local authorities in western Jamaica from establishing central abattoirs in their respective parishes.Mayor of Montego Bay and Chairman of the St James Parish...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Jamaica Civil Society Coalition and the Hopewell Development Area Committee staged a forum on integrity and good governance at the Hopewell Missionary Church in Hanover last Thursday.The forum was...
Sinusitis is a fairly common condition. Most of us either have it or know someone with it. It not only annoys those with it, but also those who have to be around them. What is it, though, and what can we do about it?...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL EMPLOYEES in the hotel sector in Negril are disgruntled over what they say is a failure by some hoteliers to pay over gratuity that is due to them under the law....
WESTERN BUREAU:A St James man who was reportedly held with papers containing overseas contact information during a police raid at his home was offered bail when he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court...
HANOVER:Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) Hanover Parish Manager, Antoinette Burton-Steer, has blamed the recent torrential rainfall for the spate of frequent power outages in the parish."We have been experiencing...
So, Audley 'Are You' Shaw is 'considering' a leadership challenge. For THIS, we've had weeks of intrigue, stormy Standing Committee meetings, serial speculation, and general excitement throughout the land? You're 'considering', Audley? Really? Seriously?
History tells us that in 280 and 279 BC, the Greek king Pyrrhus beat the Romans, but suffered so many casualties proportionally that, in the end, he lost the war. In reference to the battles he won, Pyrrhus admitted that another such "victory" would be a disaster. That infamous battle gave rise to the term 'pyrrhic victory', translated as being one gained at too great a cost.
How absolute is the right to freedom of speech? This is the question that has been pushed to the forefront of public discussions as a result of the utterances of Queen Ifrica at the Grand Gala event at the National Stadium.
The transformational opposition leader could not have had a more traditional start to his pushback campaign against the challenge to his leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Last Sunday night, seasoned 'tracers' and firebrands like Everald Warmington, 'Babsy' Grange and Pearnel Charles were joined by newbie lightning rod, Andrew Wheatley, in 'bunning fire' on would-be challenge to Prince Andrew's throne, Audley Shaw.
I would like to offer some thoughts on the recent announcement that the Government of Jamaica (at the behest of the Chinese Government) is planning to implement a large port development project in the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA). In particular, I would like to respond to a few of the points made by the Rev Garnett Roper in his guest column 'Goat Islands: ecology and economy' (Sunday Gleaner, August 25, 2013).
A summer of discontent in the education sector has passed and 'September morning' is here. The nation's children, more than 600,000 of them, return to early childhood, primary and secondary schools tomorrow morning. Many of the tertiary-level youth started last week.
It might be because they are called Goat Islands, but that doesn't mean that Government can do as it 'maaay'. We are being asked to trust a government that has a Corruption Perception Index score of 3.8 on a scale of 1-10 - a party that told the country that there was no hanky-panky in a matter that only involved a few million chicken-feed dollars, yet there is still no full disclosure.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is the title of a 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. The novel captures the ignominy of white-against-black prejudice in the first half of the 20th century. The story is a tale on the link between ignorance and wickedness; ignorance that spawns intolerance and snuffs out innocent life.
The indication from Dr Omar Davies that the Government of Jamaica is contemplating an unsolicited investment proposal of US$1.5 billion in Jamaica's seaport in the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA) from the Chinese is welcome.
It is with great interest that I viewed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's comments to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller last week in China, requesting that the Jamaican Government do more to protect Chinese nationals doing business from violent robberies, extortion, and resentment to perceived unfair labour practices.
