On my radio programme on KLAS on Wednesday, I was taken to task by some callers for daring to suggest that you can be a fan of one team and yet still want your main rivals to do well...
THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), this week, engaged in a bit of high comedy by threatening to withdraw the environmental permits it granted merely a month ago to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) for the...
WITH AUDLEY Shaw, political jousting and bombast are almost ritual.So, no one should be surprised at his attack on the Government's economic policies and his conclusion that the Portia Simpson Miller administration and its finance minister, Peter...
Recently, Northern Caribbean University (NCU), a Seventh-day Adventist institution, explained that 21-year-old Sha-Shana James was given the greater punishment of suspension because she was responsible for the performance of the unapproved routine on...
As a nation, few would argue that we are not where we could be. Jamaica needs a politically engaged middle class as the corrective force. As a group, the middle class has often seemed unmoved by Jamaica's many societal problems...
Peter Phillips would have been absurdly naïve if he didn't anticipate the criticisms of the J$6.7 billion in new taxes, especially the levies on bank withdrawals he announced last week to close the gap in the Government's Budget.
This is a response from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM).INDECOM notes the errors in Gordon Robinson's column published on April 22, 2014 titled 'Premature adjudication'.
When I signed up on February 22, 2005, TheFacebook.com had one purpose (and one million users). There was no Like button, no App Center, no News Feed. It was just a directory...
A great political strength of Audley Shaw, the shadow finance minister, which serves well when wishing to pump up his party's base, is his possession of a waspish tongue and capacity for contrived irascibility when...
WISCONSIN, Madison (AP):A bill that would put outside agencies in charge of investigating officer-involved deaths could create conflict and confusion for Wisconsin agencies that have traditionally done it themselves, police observers say.The measure's...
To rudely paraphrase the late Rex Nettleford, the quintessential intellectual and man of dance and letters, greater truths are often arrived at via the creative imagination than from hard facts and figures.It is in that context that we welcome last...
So yet another cop has killed himself, following fast on the heels of a policeman who, days earlier, killed his spouse and then himself. Unfortunately, these murder-suicides and attempts are not uncommon among our cops and now barely cause eyebrows to be raised among members ...
On January 2, 2014, a single form, the Business Registration Form (super form or BRF), was implemented for the registration of new companies and business names at the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ).This form effectively replaced numerous forms that...
During this Easter season, while we recognise that not everyone celebrates the significance of the season for various reasons, the key thing is to simply be grateful, appreciative and thankful that Jesus did come and lay His life down for us all....
TODAY, THE Eastern European country of Ukraine is dominating the international news. The government has a major challenge from the big bear in its neighbour, Russia. It is, I am sure, a tense time for the people, and it brings back strong memories of one of my visits to Ukraine and Russia.
It is perhaps symbolic that Richard Ho Lung's retirement from the helm of Missionaries for the Poor has come to light at Easter, this most holy period on the Christian calendar, marking the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as a symbol of hope of salvation for all of God's children.
There's been so much chupidniss in this newspaper recently regarding religion that it's time to bun a fyah and return some of the smirking contempt. I fear a secular fundamentalism is replacing an equally deplorable religious one, and there are sound reasons for rejecting them both.
