The following statement regarding Brendan Bain's dismissal (edited for word count purposes only) was issued by Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, dean, Faculty of Law, UWI, St Augustine...
The Gleaner has boldly bitten Bruce Golding's bait and has declared itself unabashedly on the side of gay marriage, scandalising conservative Jamaican society and inviting fire-and-brimstone condemnation from fundamentalist Christians.
That's the finding of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2013 Global Report for which 197,000 individuals have been surveyed across 70 participating countries in all corners of the globe.
The Iraqi army will have to destroy Mosul in order to save it - and it's not clear whether it can do the job even then. It isn't so much an army as a vast system of patronage providing employment of a sort for 900,000 people.
I write in response to the article ('Bain issue not about academic freedom') written by Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, published on May 29, 2014 in The Gleaner.
It is the one day of the year when the majority of Jamaican fathers feel some measly effort to feel special. There is no gala, flowers or fanfare. Indeed, Father's Day often passes with a whimper compared to Mother's Day, and it is like a very patronising and condescending afterthought.
Fortuitously, I attended a performance by Romain Virgo last Monday night (June 9). I would say happenstance, as my wife and I normally attend the '2-for-1' Palace Amusement movie special on Monday nights.
Readers are aware of the public debate taking place under the broader umbrella of gender equality at the highest levels of decision-making in political leadership and the private sector.
THE EDITOR, Sir:Now that The Gleaner has come out in support of same-sex unions, including marriage, the debate can now begin in earnest, and those of like mind, who have been hiding behind the 'Repeal the Buggery Law' placard, will now hopefully step...
Aside from raw money power, as was evident in the Brendan Bain case, the gay lobby and its sympathisers have no choice but to destroy the authority of the Bible and to stigmatise conservative Christians as bigots, homophobes, deluded and stone-aged.
The following is an edited speech delivered by Warren Smith, president of the Caribbean Development Bank, at the 44th annual meeting of the board of governors in Guyana last month.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States of America, once said, "Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be...
Jamaica's dormant champions of social justice got a chance to put in a rare (or is it rear?) appearance recently, thanks to regional lobby groups, the University of the West Indies (UWI), and Prof Brendan Bain.
Damion Crawford messed up a riveting and penetrating party platform speech last Sunday by his reference to "dutty Labourite", but we should not let that overshadow the inconvenient, "dutty" truths he uttered. Thankfully, he has apologised for that most deplorable reference.
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, a man of impeccable credentials, has addressed the backlash over the termination of Professor Brendan Bain, by the University of the West Indies (UWI), from his position as head of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network, an externally funded entity based at UWI.
Jamaicans are being fed a steady diet of mealy-mouthed commentary on Brendan Bain's misfortune thinly disguised as 'balance'. Only Jeff Cobham put the episode in correct perspective.
The Haitian community salutes the memory of the illustrious Norman Girvan, who always stood on the right side of history, and of the issues, and never failed to honour or defend Haiti and her people.
Tomorrow morning, Professor Errol Morrison should be starting out as director general of the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST). Technically, he remains head of the University of Technology (UTech) up to February 2015 when his contract expires, as he is on secondment to the NCST.
Among the public bills introduced to the Jamaican Parliament less than three weeks ago is that which aims to prohibit discrimination against persons who are regarded as disabled in our society.
Timed to coincide with the commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the birth of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante, emigrant journalist Ewart Walters had his upcoming book We come from Jamaica - The National Movement, 1937-1962, 2014, previewed as the lead story of the Sunday Observer on March 2.
Professor Brendan Bain exercised terribly poor strategic judgement in offering that affidavit which got him fired. The University of the West Indies (UWI) hardly had any option but to boot him.
