Commentary

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."

Last Tuesday's Gleaner contained a report of a recent Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll that 36 per cent of Jamaicans think there is more corruption in the current Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration, while 23 per cent believe the previous...

Below are exceprts from online readers on Rev Al Miller's role in the capture of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.Rev Miller's intentions might have been good...

In 1974, Jamaicans witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of senseless gun murders. The crime rate was fuelled by the obvious fact that there were too many guns in the hands of young, hopeless, unemployed men who were easily hire...

Coke's capture - Below is a sampling of online readers' reactions to Wednesday's capture of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.I am happy that Christopher Coke is now in the hands of the Jamaican authorities; however, I am afraid for him.

No offshore banking - Proposals for Jamaica to become an offshore financial centre has been put on the back burner since Don Wehby went back to GraceKennedy.

The results of the recent GSAT exams have now been published and the usual complaints are being voiced by parents whose children were not placed at their schools of first choice.