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
Jamaica is riddled with earthquake fault lines, and we have about four earthquakes each week of the year, most of which are too slight to be felt. The website of the Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona ...
Foolish views about Haiti - I must say that I find very disturbing, especially from the Christian communities, their views about the Haitian earthquake which has killed thousands. There seems to be this belief that the Haitians are being punished...
The plan for an international conference to consider the reconstruction of Haiti beyond the immediate humanitarian crisis is a good one. We also welcome the decision by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), apparently on the recommendation...
Remember how choked up we all were a year ago? There was Barack Obama, the US's first black president and a man who heralded a transformation of America, maybe even the world, standing on the steps of the Capitol and taking the oath of office.
The Opposition People's National Party - through a failure of strategic planning and the ineptitude of its inarticulate and intellectually flat-footed House whip, Derrick Kellier - turned what was a potentially simple issue into an embarrassing...
There are some phrases that are trotted out whenever persons are asked to suggest what we must do to rectify our social ills. I believe that these obfuscate the situation and end up being more of a hindrance than a help...
Last week's earthquake which unleashed destruction on Haiti, leaving the country in tatters, reminds us of the enormity of nature's fury. With several reported tremors all around us, including the Cayman Islands...
It would have been better, in the interest of public accountability, if the $29 million in fees to be paid to the three commissioners inquiring into the 1990 collapse of Jamaica's financial sector had been declared at the start...
The recent strong earthquake will test the resolve of the Haitian people. They are not unaccustomed to natural disasters. In 2008, Haiti had four storms which killed 800 persons, nevertheless their economy grew...
This Government has looked to be the worst of our brief history but there are signs that the worm is turning.All Jamaica needs to stand up and applaud the manner that the Government went about defaulting on its local debt...
We, like the bankers quoted in this newspaper yesterday, believe the debt-restructuring programme that the Government has on offer is the right call at this time, even if domestic savers will have to give a substantial portion of agreed interest.
It is unlikely there will have been any significant rebalancing of enrolment by Jamaican students to the University of the West Indies (UWI) since our observation last year that the bulk of them were in the humanities and education, while only a handful...
We have observed that the output per worker has been falling in Jamaica during the period 1972-2007. We now turn to the issue of what has been happening to the labour cost of each unit of good or service produced over the same time period...
Haiti is not unaccustomed to the world's attention in the immediate aftermath of some disaster, natural or man-made. But it is mostly fleeting. In short order, the focus wanes and the world moves on to the next crisis...
When the eventually stillborn plan by Jamaican financial institutions for the euphemistically labelled liquidity management scheme was in still embryo, this newspaper was championing a debt-restructuring scheme.
The Jamaica Debt Exchange may not be perfect, but this move by the Government to begin to rein in its debt interest payments reflects well the idea that 'the perfect is the enemy of the good'. So instead of the 'perfect', Jamaica now has the 'good'...
In spite of the many negative reports dogging the police, I remain an avid supporter because, over all, our police are decent, dedicated people. Recently, they embarked on a traffic campaign for which I'd like to offer some constructive criticism.
In between the euphoria over the Government's debt-rescheduling package and the outpouring of empathy and goodwill for devastated Haiti, there was another significant occurrence in Jamaica last week that, understandably, did not penetrate significantly...
Jamaican savers are about to undertake, perhaps, the greatest act of faith in the country's history by surrendering a huge chunk of their wealth on the promise of politicians to be good and prudent managers,...
Last Tuesday afternoon, while occupants of New Kingston's multi-storey offices were distracted by mild tremors, they could not have imagined that less than 300 miles away, Haiti's capital city of Port-au-Prince suffered the... - Dennis Morrison
Halfway into its term in office the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration has finally taken the first tentative steps towards honouring the central promise of its campaign: changing economic course. - Claude Clarke
