This week's symposium on Jamaica's bid to transform itself into a major logistics hub for the Western Hemisphere is timely, given the finding, reported by this newspaper, of the broad ignorance of the concept.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has spoken on the crime situation - at long last. Addressing a function in St Andrew earlier this week, she made an impassioned plea for communities to get involved in finding solutions to crime and appeared to suggest that peace could be achieved through community efforts.
While Jamaica has been touted as having the most churches per square mile (an assertion I have never bothered to verify), the mushrooming of funeral homes/parlours is an increasing phenomenon that appears aimed at taking over from churches.
I share the concern of columnist Orville Taylor, in his piece in your Sunday edition of January 12, on the jury system, but am reluctant to go as far as classifying it as a "waste of time".
One of the lessons one learns from cable television is that there are Desperate Housewives everywhere. However, there was none as desperate as I was on New Year's Day 2014, and while we were not in search of the same thing, no housewife in New York, Dallas or Beverley Hills was as frantic as I was to find the object of my desire.
The title of Michael Manley's book, Up the Down Escalator, aptly describes the dilemma we currently encounter as we attempt to give back to our people in Jamaica.
We are encouraged that after many false starts and over-optimistic pronouncements by various government agencies, the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) appears to be close to offloading several bits of property in downtown Kingston and its environs....
My article last week about West Indies cricket must have touched a chord, because not too long after it came out, I got several calls from people within the halls of power in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) that I should sit and meet...
There is a well-established movement of Christians in America who feel they are fighting a losing battle in their home country where rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are concerned.
THE SHAME of this latest in Everald Warmington's legion of flaky outbursts is that political delirium short-circuited a potentially serious discussion.For this newspaper believes that the matter of compulsory voting, the germ of which was touched by Mr...
THE EDITOR, Sir:Open letter to our Director GeneralDear Mr Gordon, on October 4, 2013 the Office of Utilities Regula-tion (OUR) issued a statement under the heading 'OUR moves to next ranked bidder to provide base-load capacity to national grid'.
THE EDITOR, Sir:When citizens become engaged in discussions regarding the future of their country, especially dealing with such matters as violent crime, it must be a healthy sign, and one that should be encouraged in a democracy such as ours.For...
Peter Bunting, the national security minister, has been proselytising recently about his new approach to Jamaica's epidemic of crime, which, unabashedly, includes calls for divine intervention.Given the double-digit percentage hike in homicides last...
Notwithstanding the occasional detractors who (reasonably or not) criticise the work of the offices of the auditor general and contractor general, these agencies have demonstrated vigilance and competence in unearthing various forms of corruption over the years.
Politicians will shortly pat each other on the back for finally passing the anti-gang law. They will yet again convince themselves that harsh laws scare criminals, even though crime data suggest otherwise....
