One of the sharpest, most scintillating and intellectually stimulating analyses of the crisis facing Jamaica that I have seen was given by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding in his New York Caribbean International Network (CIN) lecture recently.
From the late 'Foggy' Mullings' old ultra-safe seat of South East St Ann, Lisa Hanna, as minister of culture, is imploring us to use the memory of our National Heroes as a rallying point to build a better nation in the 21st century.
All of my ghetto chromosomes kicked in last Tuesday when a fellow, whose face is bleached to a marked resemblance to a capuchin monkey, splashed his idea of a cleaning agent on my 'windscreem' and assaulted my newly washed vehicle while looking away.
Currency devaluation is often championed as an acceptable means of promoting export competitiveness, as though such a policy move will secure the benefits for which it is designed without any countervailing action by policymakers in the targeted export market, or by countries competing in the targeted export market.
After decades of failed United States-backed prohibitionist drug policies, several Latin American countries and their elected officials are now singing a new song - 'enough is enough, legalisation is needed for stabilisation'.
Nobody knows for sure how the 5,050 delegates of the two Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) camps have signed off on last week will vote, but it seems clear to me that the momentum is with the Audley Shaw's camp.
The recent landmark ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Shanique Myrie v Barbados will be studied and dissected for years to come in an attempt to plumb the depths of its true meaning and to discern its far-reaching implications.
More than 40 years ago, I started studying to become a doctor. It didn't take long for me to realise I'd undertaken a 24-hour-per-day task. So that unwelcome interference to my life's priority (studying the horse racing form) was quickly scrapped.
My advice to you is to bet in moderation, if you think you have to. I am not a gambler. I have never bought a Lotto or Super Lotto ticket, or a Cash Pot ticket, for that matter
Next year will be a big year in South Africa, a very big year. And perhaps one should have postponed visiting until 2014. But business before pleasure.
In a series of essays on the existence of God, Pastor Boyne scolded Jamaican atheists for what he believes to be their ignorance of the latest philosophical thinking. However, if it is the pastor's intention to be taken seriously, he must first show that his hand-picked philosophers have something fresh and consequential to say. Regrettably, this has not been the case so far.
The other day someone asked me: Why don't we smile as much as we used to? What happened to that wide, instinctive Caribbean smile we were so famous for? Where did our grin go?
In so far as the Electoral Office was concerned, I noted that "in no previous election has the Electoral Office ever been involved in distorting the electoral process ... . No single final voters' list was produced.
Some of the facts established in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) landmark original jurisdiction decision in the matter Shanique Myrie v Barbados make for uncomfortable reading.
From the very first general election in Jamaica in 1944, it became apparent that the results of voting under the introduction of adult suffrage could be perverted by bogus voting.
Seymour Mullings was one of two stalwarts of the People's National Party (PNP) over the past 30 years or so who commanded unwavering respect in Jamaica by displaying seemingly apolitical tendencies.
