When a lawyer can honestly tell me that he rejects cases or tells his client to plead guilty when he knows that he is, he can talk to me about corruption.In the umpteen cases where an attorney is discovered to have defrauded his clients...
The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), in its quarterly report, paints a worrying picture for the Jamaican economy based on data collected for April to June 2012 and predictions for the next three months...
"So justice is far from us and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness, for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes...
The issue of Jamaica's slow but inevitable march towards the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is now back on the agenda as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has repeated its call for a referendum, despite the fact...
This is a submission by the University of the West Indies Energy Think Tank.The recent ruling in the Jamaican Supreme Court, by Justice Bryan Sykes, that the exclusive licence granted to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) by the minister of mining...
The selection of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as the running mate of Mitt Romney has intensified, and made more bare, the ideological divide in the United States presidential elections.
Like so many other Jamaicans, I experienced warmth of heart because of the triumphant exploits of our athletes; and I agree that something should be done to commemorate the outstanding accomplishments of Usain Bolt.
What are we leaving behind as the legacy projects of Jamaica 50 celebrations? Hindsight is 20/20, and in looking back, there are some things I would have liked to see done as part of the legacy of Jamaica 50 celebrations.
There's been too much hot air produced recently trying to academically analyse Jamaica's status and prescribe for its future. Why do we spend so much time making simple issues sound deeply intellectual?...
Sometime last year, before the general election campaign got into high gear, I was privileged to attend the launch of the People's National Party's (PNP) Progressive Agenda.
While we celebrated Jamaica's first (and greatest) national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey's birthday, last Friday, the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Courts still record him as 'ex-convict number 19359'.
This year's United States presidential election has been widely portrayed in international press reports as a neck-and-neck horse race, with polls alternately showing Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the lead.But compelling as that analogy might be...
The same week euphoria, ecstasy and Boltmania drenched the island, Western Union had to close all its outlets in Montego Bay, presumably because of our lotto scam corruption, and the same week it was announced our secondary-school students did poorly in...
Grand Gala and Jamaica 100 - Never say never, we've been advised by some sage. But very probably I have just attended my last Grand Gala - or any other national function...
We are not as anti-Gay as commonly believed, because we mostly like Tyson but Justin Gatlin is an ass. And I bet Carl Lewis likes Gatlin more than Tyson. ...
In his July 29, 2012 response to Ian Boyne's article on Michael Manley in The Sunday Gleaner of July 22, 2012, Delano Seiveright indulged in an orgy of tribalism, the like of which is regarded by many as the greatest deterrent to Jamaica's progress over the past 50 years....
I write to bring to the public's attention a recent Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judgment dismissing an appeal from parties in Guyana. It is the case of GFM Ltd vs Ramcharran and NBIC (now Republic Bank)....
If there was anywhere on Earth where it was legal to blaze the chalice, one would think that that place would be Jamaica, popularised by our own legendary ambassadors such as Bob Marley (in singles such as Kaya), Peter Tosh (Legalise It), Yellow Man...
Two respected international affairs publication in the recent past have referred to Jamaica as homophobic. Time Magazine, in a 2006 edition, asked the question: Is Jamaica the most homophobic place on earth? The Economist had a 2009 article titled 'Homophobia in Jamaica a vicious intolerance, the politicians seem unperturbed by hate crimes'.
If Rex Nettleford did not exist, we would have had to invent him. For surely, as a people against whom there has been such a conspiracy to denude us of our worth and sense of historical belonging; a people against whom the forces of cultural genocide have been so relentless; a people who have been persistently seduced into racial amnesia; for a people with such ills, Rex Nettleford is the antidote.
