With the unrestrained congratulations by International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials about the Government's management of the Jamaican economy, it is unsurprising that significant intervention by Peter Phillips on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and perhaps its future, went largely unnoticed.
How do you prevent two million people living in tents in a wilderness from dying off from infectious diseases like Ebola, which is now threatening the whole world out of West Africa where it has roared back to life?
It is something of a cruel joke for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to stand in front of an audience in 2014 and declare that high energy costs are the single, greatest deterrent to the country's economic growth.
Anyone who ever played on artificial grass, known as AstroTurf, knows that if you fall, skate or trip on the stuff, you get badly burnt and bruised, and it takes long to heal.
In Petre Williams-Raynor's excellent article 'Bauxite price tag put on Cockpit Country', we are told that the boundary "advanced by the Cockpit Country Stakeholders' Group ... would deny access to some 300 million tonnes of bauxite, valued at some US$9 billion".
Each day, our news media report stories of child abuse and senseless killings. Our children are faced daily with horrific trauma in their homes and communities, while there is a segment of society who bilk elderly individuals out of their life savings or extort persons for rent of their own homes.
On Saturday, July 26, 2014, I had a bad experience at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) East Parade office. Customer service was lacking, and the customer service representative (CSR) appeared to be devoid of any training and experience in customer service.
Jamaica's decision to ask Cuba for help in developing an Ebola-preparedness strategy is a good one, and perhaps the most thoughtful public-health initiative by Fenton Ferguson since he took over the health portfolio two and a half years ago.
Every year during National Heritage Week, we are fed a sanitised diet - almost national myths - concerning our history and our heroes. We glory only in certain (more positive) aspects of what we have inherited from our ancestors, and we choose to ignore the less noble parts of our patrimony.
THE EDITOR, Sir: I write in response to an article in The Gleaner, dated Saturday, October 11, 2014. The article under the heading 'NWA rapped for substandard Negril bicycle pathway' made a number of assertions, some of which are unfortunate...
THE EDITOR, Sir: I refer to the letter titled 'Registering a company is a nightmare' written by Winston D. Barrett and published in the October 4, 2014 edition of The Gleaner.
The name Ben Bradlee is unlikely to ring a bell for most Jamaicans. Many may, not unreasonably, question the relevance of him being eulogised in these columns.
On National Heroes' Day, there was, in The Gleaner, quite appropriately, a feature saluting our national heroes. However, there were mistakes concerning the religious affiliation of two of our national heroes, namely, Sam Sharpe and Paul Bogle.
