Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2014 | 12:00 AM
The news of the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) exoneration of Veronica Campbell-Brown on technical issues has put back on the agenda the reform of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) and the need for it to provide updates on how far it...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2014 | 12:00 AM
A century ago, America’s film industry was like our telecoms industry, a gold rush enabled by exciting technology and unbridled greed. The workers at the bottom — carpenters, electricians, painters — had already unionised....
Keiran King reveals the backstory on the Academy Awards and explains why you should skip the Oscars."The Oscars, far from the movie Olympics they're inflated to be, are more like your local sports day, with the same ageing guardians, traditional beliefs...
We have long supported and championed the call for a commission of enquiry into the events in Tivoli Gardens of May 2010 and, in particular, the circumstances under which at least 76 persons were killed.Earl Witter, the public defender, in an interim...
An economic growth strategy that focuses on economic fundamentals (such as balanced budgets and low inflation) may not solve every economic problem a poor country has to face, but it is the best strategy for achieving long-term growth.
I clearly remember the first girl I 'liked off'. Her name was Marguerite, and to this day, every time I hear the song 'You Sexy Thing', I remember her, even though at that time I had no idea what sexy was...
A bill to streamline Jamaica's bankruptcy laws, now being reviewed by a joint select committee of Parliament, is an important and welcome development.It should help bring a greater level of certainty and order to the processes by which insolvent...
What in the world happened to the Manchester Local Sustainable Parish Development Plan (LSPD) of 2008? The plan, articulated in a 595-page document, was developed in 2006 and completed in 2008 through funding provided by...
When the moral and social fabrics of a nation are being worn away by crime, lack of good governance, lack of solutions, a battered economy, and the poor state of our youth, we don't need one more survey or feasibility study...
I couldn't believe my eyes. A young woman was so deep in conversation on her cellular phone that she stepped off the curb and started crossing a busy intersection in Half-Way Tree. Clinging to the belt around her waist was a little girl...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), founded in 1948 in France and housed in the pristine village of Gland, Switzerland, has weighed in on the Goat Islands issue. Now here come the big guns to tell us everything we never needed to know about their airy-fairy carbon sequestration, but not a word about feeding, housing, educating and providing jobs for our human resources.
In the midst of the expressions of satisfaction that greeted the meagre 0.5 per cent GDP growth in the third quarter of 2013, the finance minister made a telling statement that the next phase of the four-year programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should focus on the growth agenda.
When I saw the title of the talk Cindy Breakspeare was going to give at the University of the West Indies, Mona, two Thursdays ago, I questioned her judgement: 'Beauty and the Beast: A Bridge to the Natural Mystic'. I wondered why Cindy was reviving that tired, old image of herself and Bob Marley after almost four decades.
But for the good sense of Senator Nigel Clarke and lawyer Michael Hylton, much of what emerged at last week's sitting of the parliamentary committee reviewing the new bankruptcy and insolvency law underlined one of the significant barriers to economic risk-taking in Jamaica.
Sometimes just a decent headline can indicate that it's going to be a good day. Well, I enjoyed The Gleaner's 'Men stick with Gal in a Bungle', which came above some interesting findings by the Family Planning Board.
In Trinidad, people burn tyres, one went on a hunger strike, others chant in stirring rhythm their frustration and, generally, a good time is had by all, despite some episodes of sheer desperation or the promises by trade union leaders that better days...
THE EDITOR, Sir: There has been much public debate surrounding this paper's publication of a complaint letter from a National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) customer which spoke to the levying of charges...
Owen Ellington, Jamaica's police chief, has talked about few things nearly as much as the constabulary's need for special legislation with which to confront the island's criminal gangs, which are blamed for as much as 80 per cent of the country's crime...
Jamaica is one of the most unequal countries in the world. A recent World Bank Report ranked Jamaica 114th out of 156 countries in the world in terms of income inequality...
It is perhaps typical of her type that most Jamaicans never heard much, and knew little, of Sister Bernadette - unless they attended Alpha Academy, or were somehow associated with the school or the Roman Catholic Church.She wanted it that way.
