So, Jesus might've been 'married' or, at least, might've had a 'wife'. OMG! What a religious disaster! Can you imagine? This facilitates all sorts of blasphemy by irreverent mortals like me.
On behalf of the conscientious parents and socially concerned individuals in this country, I apologise to the nation for the gutlessness of the board of Cornwall College for the apology to I-am-not-sure-whom.
Early in the New Year, this newspaper reported that psychiatrist Frederick Hickling and research partner Vanessa Paisley had discovered that some 40 per cent of Jamaicans have some kind of personality disorder.
Below is the keynote address by Lt Col (Ret'd) Linton Gordon, attorney-at-law, to the Kiwanis Foundation of Jamaica at the Frank Melhado Awards on September 9.
We have all heard, proverbially, about Mr or Mrs Ten Per Cent (anecdotally, a politician or a bureaucrat), who takes 10 per cent off the top for any deal he/she is in a position to influence.
The United Nations General Assembly gets under way this week with renewed fears of a fresh war in the Middle East, and just a few days after violent anti-American protests in the Arab world over an incendiary YouTube video insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
The recent furore surrounding government Member of Parliament Damion Crawford and his allocation of resources in his East Rural St Andrew constituency has resurrected the debate over the use of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and the role of good political representatives.
My favourite laws of chemistry are those by Boyle and Charles regarding the interrelationships between pressure (P), temperature (T) and volume (V) for a unit mass of any gas, with the equation PV = RT indelibly written in my mind. The equation asserts that if the temperature of any gas is kept constant, volume will increase as pressure decreases and vice versa.
You might recall that I complained in a column last month of the "increasingly schizoid nature of American 'culture wars'" - that these days, supporters of the two major US parties "live on entirely different planets, fantasising to themselves in disconnected parallel universes" in which they "rarely actually communicate with each other...
Quite recently in this paper, Martin Henry engaged in a useful piece of legislative reflection and rightfully highlighted areas where, as a nation, we need to look seriously at aspects of our law that might be in need of reformation.
It's been nine months on. What will Mama P deliver to party faithful, the beloved poor, and the rest of the country at today's public session of the first annual conference of the People's National Party (PNP) after winning the December 2011 general election?
Is it just me that finds that our evangelical church services - and, in particular, funeral services - are the truest form of excellent Jamaican theatre? Where else does one find the drama and richness of our culture and what we are as a people? The colour, the rhythm, music and passion are all to be found on such occasions.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has been coming under increasing fire for allegedly being missing in action, disconnected, disengaged and acting as a detached, ceremonial head of state. Mark Wignall has been characteristically caustic, but even columnist Chris Burns, no Portia detractor, has been complaining loudly about the Motivator-in-Chief's dereliction of duty.
As an English speaker, we like to believe that English is the widest spoken language in the world, and this is partly true. There are approximately 500 million speakers (native and non-native) of the English language, and we can bask in the fact that English is the official language for more countries than any other language is the world.
One reason you shouldn't use too much hair dye is that it might seep into your skull and obscure the brain. After all, if we can catch cold through our mole, then president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's, brain is slowly dyeing. Since his apparent early onset dementia when he inexplicably turned on his citizens and destroyed his cricket team, I have stopped taking him seriously.
In making indefensibly bad projections about economic growth, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) and Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) have used up more paper than any dysentery pandemic.
"When you pick up that ballot to vote, you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation ... the choice you face won't be just between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America.
There is no science to it, nor is there 'sciance', but one can't help but be petrified that almost five years to the date, the police in St Thomas have killed another pregnant woman.
