Commentary

I USED to be principal of a prominent high school in Spanish Town.In the community where the school is located, there were a few persons who could be described as 'area leaders', if one stretched the term.

THE MONTHS leading up to that first Independence Day, August 6, 1962, was an intense and hectic period of preparation and excitement. The new Parliament was to be officially opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret...

It is common practice in Jamaica and elsewhere in the world that political wives don't speak. As a wife of a former politician, I mainly followed that tradition. However, I find myself at a point in my life when silence no longer seems like an option.

Below are excerpts from online readers' reaction to Tuesday's lead story, 'Dudus to see proof'.They can make a caseI hope they have more than what was posted on the State Department website...

Pockets of complaints of unprofessional behaviour notwithstanding, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) emerged from the recent west Kingston conflict with its reputation largely intact, and even enhanced.The public perception is that the military was mostly...

Below are excerpts from online readers' reaction to Monday's lead story of Pastor Al Miller explaining his actions in the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke affair. Stop playing into the hands of Al Miller.

If, indeed, the heavy thumping sound that many people perceive to be coming from National Heroes Circle is in fact joyous chest-beating by finance ministry officials celebrating the revaluation of the Jamaican dollar...

I watched in horror on Wednesday, June 16, when CVM-TV cut the post-game interview of Diego Forlan and Luis Suarez of Uruguay.

"I sanctioned it." These three words will be indelibly etched in our minds for decades to come - an ounce of truth in the midst of spin and lies. "I sanctioned it," but not as prime minister only as party chief - compartmentalisation born of convenience.

Many people are hoping that the events of the last few weeks will result in garrison communities across Jamaica being dismantled. The existence of these mini-states, created and run first by political and then by criminal interests for several decades now, has seriously undermined any hope for a sustained reduction in the levels of violent crime...

The poll finding that a plurality of Jamaicans (36 per cent) view his administration as more corrupt than the former People's National Party (PNP) government (23 per cent) cannot have escaped Prime Minister Bruce Golding.

Albert Camus, author of L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French-Algerian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. According to the Telegraph newspaper, "He is now recognised as a man who understood the true profundity of football." Camus once said, "All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football."