The sale of Air Jamaica's routes to Caribbean Airlines, Trinidad and Tobago's state-owned national carrier, has been both emotional and contentious, evidencing Jamaica's genuine pride in and love for the Lovebird and its presumed...
Although he is often accused of injecting the data with steroids and of providing overoptimistic analyses of the sector's performance, Ed Bartlett, Jamaica's tourism minister, has earned credit for...
Warm weather destinations have been given a boost by the severe winter in North America and Europe that could be prolonged, based on current forecasts.
Drought is, for Jamaica, an annual recurring event. The current hot, dry conditions that have persisted for several months have created many health and environmental challenges for sections of the island. Businesses, farmers and householders have been feeling the effects caused...
Caribbean people have a way with words. We use them, like Derek Walcott and Vidia Naipaul, to win Nobel prizes. We give them new meanings. We distort and twist them. We can throw them with greater pace and stinging accuracy than Vivian Richards running out the Australian batsmen in the 1975 World Cup. Most of all, we can invent them.
According to Wikipedia, 'friendly fire' is an expression meaning gunfire from one's own side or allied forces, as opposed to gunfire coming from enemy forces.
About a month ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill setting out the framework for the establishment and policing of credit bureaux in Jamaica.That piece of legislation will soon be debated by the Senate...
In earlier times, a court day in Jamaica was quite a spectacle.The arguments and debates provided fascinating entertainment, and people would come from north, east, south and west to witness...
AS A country, we have high expectations for all of our students. After all, this is reflected in the philosophy emerging from the Ministry of Education: 'Every Child Can Learn: Every Child Must Learn'...
The United States is a democracy run by an aristocracy. Remember that, and the country's politics starts to make a bit more sense. Of course, Americans will insist, they overthrew a monarchy.
Recently, a columnist pulled no punches in arguing that the CXC history syllabus was so designed that it could lead to the students being taught erroneous 'facts' about our history.
On October 15 last year, I wrote the article 'Let 'Dudus' have his day in court', in which I argued that for the good of the country and also for the good of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, it was advisable to allow...
Dorothy Lightbourne, the justice minister, should have accepted Bruce Golding's challenge immediately in his address to Parliament on Tuesday.But it is not too late.
There was a time not so long ago when the progress of a Jamaican was measured by the three Vs.If one had a Volvo motor car, a VCR machine and a visa, preferably one issued by the Americans, he was adjudged to be sitting on top of the heap.
Perchance Prime Minister Golding missed, underestimated or rejected the arguments of many in the society, recent events should, by now, have concentrated his mind on the potential dangers of his Government's inexplicable dithering ...
Some years ago a colleague introduced me to the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).I subsequently attended a conference in Orlando in 2002 where I presented a paper on the 'Evolution of the Jamaican Education System'...
It is a welcome development that Owen Ellington, the acting police chief, is seeking to bring under some level of management the use of crowd-control irritants, such as tear gas.Unfortunately, it required...
Put Jamaica first - I am really encouraged to see The Gleaner editorial of February 28 on the 'Dudus' issue, and for what I consider to be an accurate representation of the malady affecting Jamaica...
Any adult person who cannot, at least, identify with Tiger Woods in his ongoing sex saga is abnormal, too old, too forgetful or 'too lie' (untruthful).
I've spent a lifetime scorning ceremony.The last graduation ceremony I attended was upon leaving fifth form. I 'graduated' one Friday evening and then returned to sixth form the following Monday at the same school.
The media have released the much anticipated findings of Justice Paul Harrison, the sole commissioner into the direct causes and culpabilities of the deadly fire of May 22, 2009, that took the lives of seven wards of the state, injured eleven other...
Proceed with caution - Before Jamaica goes off on a recruiting spree designed to bring in foreign math specialists from, shall we say, "more developed" nations such as the United States...
