Make your own job - I am always bemused by people like your letter writer 'The dilemma of an SLB delinquent', who were fortunate enough to attend a tertiary institution at taxpayers' expense, and when they graduate complain about not being able...
Karl Samuda, the industry and investment minister, will forgive our surprise at his announcement in Parliament this week of the intention of the state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) for a $1.6-billion bond issue to finance the construction...
Haiti, our first republic in the Western Hemisphere and a proud symbol of 'Afro-defiance' in the so-called 'New World', continues to dominate the media nationally, regionally and internationally.
All Jamaicans should wish the latest Government of Jamaica (GOJ) reissued bonds all the best. Notwithstanding, the question needs to be asked: is this a credible programme? If it is voluntary, why were there veiled threats? Is it a default or is it an exchange?
Not unexpectedly, Mr Owen Ellington, who has been acting as Jamaica's commissioner of police since towards the end of last year, has been officially offered the job, although the appointment has not yet been officially announced...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper finds himself in a bit of a spot. He stands accused by his foes of having what Bill Clinton would have called 'an inappropriate relationship' with democracy. As in, remember what Bill did to Monica?
I SUPPOSE I oughtn't to be surprised at the 'poppy show' the hemisphere has made of the recent Haitian tragedy. Tears and fears are not what Haiti needs now nor has it ever. Earthquakes happen as do many other natural events (called disasters by those unfamiliar ...
I FEEL a bit guilty commenting on United States politics when we have so much to comment on here at home. However, I can't help my fascination with what has been taking place between the Obama administration and the electorate in America, as it reminds me...
Late last year, the National Water Commission (NWC) made some dramatic announcements about the reduced levels of water supply to the nation's capital. Graphic news photos of the minister of water walking on parched concrete inside a depleted Mona Reservoir...
Having suffered a heavy defeat by Kamla Persad-Bissessar in the challenge to his leadership of Trinidad and Tobago's United National Congress (UNC), Basdeo Panday should do the moral thing and resign as leader of the parliamentary opposition, lest he...
The Government, in the documentation supporting its request for US$1.3 billion in loans from the International Monetary Fund, says that it marked 20 state-owned firms and parastatal entities for divestment....
If we are serious about "Rethinking and Rebuilding Haiti" as the University of the West Indies plans to do, then we must search for a more complete story than the widely circulated one conveyed by Sir Hilary Beckles in "The Hate and the Quake", ...
Among the most pleasing bits of government-related news of the past week was the report that MPs had up to then spent only around 60 per cent of the money in that bi-partisan tub of pork drippings they call, euphemistically, the Constituency Development...
An earthquake in hilly terrain is a deadly combination. But during heavy rains, even minor tremors can trigger devastating landslips, mudslides and debris flows, and several locations in Jamaica are vulnerable. For some answers to the catastrophic potential of local landslips...
When outspoken televangelist Pat Robertson - founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of The 700 Club - calmly and authoritatively asserted that the cataclysmic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince in Haiti occurred because...
In urging Jamaican savers to agree to the rescheduling of $700 billion of the Government's domestic debt at lower interest rates, Prime Minister Bruce Golding promised transparency and accountability in the management of the country's affairs...
My colleague Peter Espeut has inspired me to respond to his comments, 'Change the system', Gleaner, January 15 ) about the critique of the CXC exams by Education Minister Andrew Holness. As one who serves at so many levels of the education system and a master teacher, I would like to enter the debate.
For too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption. Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda ... is the evidence which shows that Haiti's independence was defeated by an aggressive North-Atlantic alliance...
It is foregone that by Tuesday, the Government will have all the commitments it needs from domestic bondholders to go ahead with its plan to redeem, and reissue at lower interest rates, over $700 billion in debt, which is among the pre-conditions for US$1.3 billion in loans that Jamaica is to receive from the International Monetary Fund.
So damaging and traumatic has been the 'Great Recession' of 2009 that not even the adage about crisis and opportunity has been much of a salve for the near 20 million people out of work in the United States and the huge number of families hit by mortgage foreclosures.
The National Water Commission (NWC) routinely reminds us that 'water is life.' Yet the commission is callously cutting off the lifeblood of Kingston by aiding and abetting short-sighted 'developers' - both public and private sector - who are carelessly converting acres and acres of supposedly protected government lands into house lots.
A Manchester letter writer to this newspaper has suggested that a full debate on the crime situation is urgently needed and should be accorded top priority by the Jamaican Parliament at this time.
I suppose if you're having a relationship with a cougar you have to start from scratch. In my case, they hove upon my horizon as an application of an old word to describe a new phenomenon. - Tony Deyal
