Transparency International (TI) has published its 2012 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report days after Greg Christie demitted office as contractor general.
IF THE University of Technology (UTech) students were privy to a Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) class while in high school, they, perhaps, would not have been involved in inciting violence against a colleague allegedly caught in a homosexual liaison on campus.
In reading Lord Justice Leveson's 45-page summary of his 2,000-page report on the phone-hacking scandal and other misdeeds of the British press, published last week, as well as reflecting on the American media's coverage of the recent Road to the White...
Swirling dust from ministerial SUVs roaring across this potholed country may have obscured an important job-vacancy advertisement appearing in the papers last Sunday.
In the 11 months since their overwhelming general election victory last December, which the people granted in a moment of good faith, I have to confess that I've found myself increasingly disappointed with the prime minister's, and the People's National...
Below is a lightly edited excerpt from a contribution by North West Manchester Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips to the parliamentary pension reform debate in November.
There has been ongoing debate about the changes that Jamaica must make to the structures of society in order for us to be on a path of sustainable socio-economic growth and development.
Last year, then Minister of Finance Audley Shaw came under intense pressure from the People's National Party (PNP) and its supporters to conclude arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Given our political history and reputation for corruption, in December 2005 few would have thought that the newly appointed contractor general would have been such a transformational character and the supreme overseer of good governance in the fight...
Last Friday, more than 1,500 cities around the world illuminated symbolic public buildings in commemoration of the first abolition of the death penalty, which took place in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in contemporary Italy, on November 30, 1786.
A new policy paper issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Wednesday has highlighted public-sector wage growth and high public-sector employment as major contributing factors to the Caribbean's debt crisis.
I am indeed grateful to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) for taking the trouble to respond to the suggestion made by my article in The Sunday Gleaner ('Jamaica's energy conundrum', November 4, 2012) that the OUR has been less than diligent in approving that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) build a 360MW plant for electricity generation. I note, by contrast, that the JPS itself has not found it necessary to respond.
Lance Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France cycling titles - a most remarkable feat for which he was lauded and compensated. However, recently he was stripped of all his titles for taking performance-enhancing drugs.
I continue to have a deep, abiding faith in God and personal reliance on Christ's Word.However, I've lost all respect for, and trust in, the Church, a man-made organisation whose sole purpose is mind control using fear based on centuries-old random collections of articles by a motley crew of authors, some anonymous, in a book called The Old Testament.
There is only one way to spell right, but many different ways to spell it and be wrong. A minor distraction from the real imperatives of a struggling nation came over the past week, when the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) found itself in a pickle after the intractable member of parliament for South West St Catherine, Everald Warmington, stirred up an ants' nest.
Andrew Holness delivered what the base wanted last Sunday at his annual party conference: toughness, testosterone and tendentiousness. He was resolute, resounding and resilient in the face of fears that the perennial factiousness of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was to make its abode in the party yet again.
Dr Gladstone Hutchinson, director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), will be heading back to the United States within a couple of months of delivering his last no-growth quarterly report and releasing in print A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in the Short and Medium Term.
In the early days after Independence, there was a firm belief in the high quality of civil servants. This resulted from more than a decade of training of civil servants aimed at creating an accomplished team to take over the administration of the country.
Track and field is currently the jewel in Jamaica's sport crown. That is why the upcoming Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association's (JAAA) elections, which will take place on November 29, are of such importance.
