Commentary

RECENTLY, THE Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) objected to additional organised opportunity for gambling on horse racing....

What can the authorities do to stem the recent violence in Spanish Town? I think community development will help to stem the violence in Spanish Town.- smithtrishFirst, you have to free the people, create jobs, invest in after-school programmes...

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We have previously observed in these columns that any success by Jamaica in pulling itself out of economic crisis will demand tough, and mostly politically unpopular, actions.The new Portia Simpson Miller administration...

I'm in trouble again. This time, accountants, that drab species of homo not-so-sapiens who lack the charisma to become undertakers are after me. Lawyers too. The race is on to see who disciplines me first...

Take heart, Jamaica, it could be a lot worse. As painful as this season of austerity is for everyone, the country still isn't Greece. There, amid an economic implosion that has seen unemployment soar above 20 per cent...

A not widely known fact about Wilmot ('Motty') Perkins, who died last Friday, aged 80, was that he spent a year at the now-defunct St Peter's College studying to become an Anglican priest...

Among the unresolved issues in the Christopher Coke extradition saga is how, and with whose help, he escaped the military dragnet around Tivoli Gardens and was able to stay at large for a month.As a narcotics dealer and...

When Jamaica's negotiations to secure supplies of natural gas from Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) were torpedoed in 2006, it came as a big blow to the country's economic prospects.

Once again, we have the perennial problem of the Riverton City dump fire poisoning the air and making residents in the surrounding areas flee their homes. The dump is so near to the sea and the rivers. Should there not be permanent water pumps and fire hydrants or an overhead irrigation system placed strategically to combat fires when they occur?

Public-health warnings have been slow to come to Kingston and its environs, though from all accounts the toxic plumes from the Riverton City dump have been creating serious respiratory and other problems for many city dwellers since Monday.