Thomas Hobbes would have just loved to be in Libya right now. But he has been dead for a while. Since 1679, in fact. Hobbes, in 1651, published Leviathan, one of the most important and influential books ever published in political philosophy.
In an interview conducted just after his final concert in December 1983, and which was published in Pulse Magazine in June 1984, Peter Tosh asserted: "I a look fe peace.
It was the Tuesday, September 1, 2009 edition of The Gleaner that significantly brought to public light the request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the United States (US) on narcotics and firearm charges.
In every religious domain, every geographical sector of the world, every culture and in every organised human endeavour, the 'maximum patriarch' has historically declared war on everyone who was privileged to be born with a vagina.
Mark Myrie, better known to all of us as Buju Banton, being found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, knowingly and...
"Driver, don't stop at all/ drop this Arizona roun' a Alba Mall/ Driver, don't even hitch/ collect da likkle food deh yah and come back quick/ Driver, just rememba di damn speed limit/ caaw if yuh run in di Feds, my friend, dat is it." - Buju...
Almost 100 years ago, E.F.L. Wood, undersecretary to the British secretary of state, after participating in a three-month tour of almost all the British isles to assess the feasibility of regional integration, reported:
Statistics released by STATIN indicating that in 2009 nearly 400,000 Jamaicans aged 15-29 were either unemployed or out of the labour force tell a tragic tale about our country's future.
Peter Phillips lost it last Tuesday evening. Badly. Stung by a charge from government Member of Parliament Gregory Mair that he was a CIA agent, Phillips, after wailing that government members had put in danger the lives of himself and his family, threatened, "Mr Speaker, let them come, because I can deal with all of them."
Farmer Joe had a lot on his mind: neither Harry nor I could get in a word edgewise. He was irate, livid. Who will ever forget Farmer Joe, with cellular phone at his ear, among his cultivation in the massive Jamaica Labour Party advertising campaign during the last general election campaign, advising Sista P: "A nuh mi seh suh?"
Hosni Mubarak has finally capitulated under massive and intense people protest and has left the Egyptian government in the hands of the armed forces. The protesters wanted democracy in place of autocratic rule. Are they about to get it?
The Government of Jamaica is to be congratulated on raising US$400 million in the eurobond market. Coming a year after a painful restructuring of domestic debt, and with concerns about heightened debt in a context of protracted economic contraction, the achievement is even more remarkable.
The national vision statement in the Vision 2030 Jamaica, National Development Plan (the Vision 2030) is to make "Jamaica the place of choice to live, work, raise families, and do business".
When Dorothy Lightbourne declared that she heard about Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' involvement with the Government of Jamaica only when Peter Phillips made the revelation in Parliament, many were willing to believe her, even though her ignorance had a ring of incredulity to it.
The youths have turned upon the minister with responsibility for them - and then upon each other. But why should there even be a Ministry of Youth? And, logically, where is the Ministry of Children, of the Aged, and of the age group in-between? We do have a growing child sector in government and one for gender, which really means women.
Two trends in political studies of the past 40 years are captured by the titles, What Makes Democracies Endure and Why Men Rebel. Scholars have tried to find out how democracies emerge, survive and consolidate themselves. They had thought that there was a wave of democratic consolidation following the rebellion against military regimes from the 1970s and the fall of communism post-1990.
Enquiry, shamquiry. That was pretty much the initial attitude of the general public towards the ongoing Manatt-Dudus commission. Not only have we grown accustomed to enquiries costing taxpayers lots of money and producing nothing of value, but the relentless press coverage of the Manatt saga over the past year left most people utterly sick of the topic.
Jamaica is not the only developing country feeling the effects of rapid globalisation in the furniture and woodworking industries. I thought it would be of interest to share the challenges of the Jamaican industry - including the issue of globalisation - and what companies here are doing to fight back.
When Prime Minister Bruce Golding inadvertently commented in the House of Representatives, "Give me another Greg Christie," it served to pay Contractor General Christie a supreme accolade that spoke for the feelings of a great many people who value the work of the fearless administration.
