HANOVER:Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) Hanover Parish Manager, Antoinette Burton-Steer, has blamed the recent torrential rainfall for the spate of frequent power outages in the parish."We have been experiencing...
So, Audley 'Are You' Shaw is 'considering' a leadership challenge. For THIS, we've had weeks of intrigue, stormy Standing Committee meetings, serial speculation, and general excitement throughout the land? You're 'considering', Audley? Really? Seriously?
History tells us that in 280 and 279 BC, the Greek king Pyrrhus beat the Romans, but suffered so many casualties proportionally that, in the end, he lost the war. In reference to the battles he won, Pyrrhus admitted that another such "victory" would be a disaster. That infamous battle gave rise to the term 'pyrrhic victory', translated as being one gained at too great a cost.
How absolute is the right to freedom of speech? This is the question that has been pushed to the forefront of public discussions as a result of the utterances of Queen Ifrica at the Grand Gala event at the National Stadium.
The transformational opposition leader could not have had a more traditional start to his pushback campaign against the challenge to his leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Last Sunday night, seasoned 'tracers' and firebrands like Everald Warmington, 'Babsy' Grange and Pearnel Charles were joined by newbie lightning rod, Andrew Wheatley, in 'bunning fire' on would-be challenge to Prince Andrew's throne, Audley Shaw.
I would like to offer some thoughts on the recent announcement that the Government of Jamaica (at the behest of the Chinese Government) is planning to implement a large port development project in the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA). In particular, I would like to respond to a few of the points made by the Rev Garnett Roper in his guest column 'Goat Islands: ecology and economy' (Sunday Gleaner, August 25, 2013).
A summer of discontent in the education sector has passed and 'September morning' is here. The nation's children, more than 600,000 of them, return to early childhood, primary and secondary schools tomorrow morning. Many of the tertiary-level youth started last week.
It might be because they are called Goat Islands, but that doesn't mean that Government can do as it 'maaay'. We are being asked to trust a government that has a Corruption Perception Index score of 3.8 on a scale of 1-10 - a party that told the country that there was no hanky-panky in a matter that only involved a few million chicken-feed dollars, yet there is still no full disclosure.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is the title of a 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. The novel captures the ignominy of white-against-black prejudice in the first half of the 20th century. The story is a tale on the link between ignorance and wickedness; ignorance that spawns intolerance and snuffs out innocent life.
The indication from Dr Omar Davies that the Government of Jamaica is contemplating an unsolicited investment proposal of US$1.5 billion in Jamaica's seaport in the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA) from the Chinese is welcome.
It is with great interest that I viewed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's comments to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller last week in China, requesting that the Jamaican Government do more to protect Chinese nationals doing business from violent robberies, extortion, and resentment to perceived unfair labour practices.
Starting today, users of public transport will pay 25 per cent more for a ride. Some of them, at any rate, since the fare for children under 12, for students in uniform, the disabled and the elderly using the Government-owned part of the system remains at the same concessionary rate of $20. The last fare increase was in 2010.
The media were in a frenzy all of last week over new unemployment figures which showed that the rate had reached a 10-year high at 16.3%, with youth unemployment well over 30%. And to deepen that alarm, bus fare increases of 25% were announced effective today.
'Cock mouth kill cock.' I am not sure if Anne Shirley is familiar with the words of the Jamaican adage, but now some feel this woman was the wrong man for the job.
Proposals have been submitted from three agency sources, largely, for tax reforms in accordance with the agreement with the IMF team reviewing problems of the Jamaican economy.
Every man has a right to defend himself and his rights, and no one, whatever be his sexual orientation, has the right to violate the right and space of another.
NEWS THAT Jamaica's unemployment rate had hit over 16 per cent came last week amid images of a hoard of unemployed teachers who turned up at a career fair to compete for scarce or non-existent jobs.
THE LETTER of the Day written by Cashley Brown and published on Thursday, August 15, 2013, started as a critique of the way in which special interest groups through their agitation for the recognition of injustice neglect to contextualise the cultural...
Every year, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) publishes, among other things, a listing of the net foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into the region, country by country.
My last column titled 'Health risks, penis size, and Digicel', published Sunday, August 4, 2013, which highlighted the difficulties I encountered in trying to convert from a Digicel postpaid plan to a prepaid one, was initially scheduled to be published July 21.
