Government consists of three separate and independent arms: the legislature, the executive and the courts. John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, on March 10, while giving an address at a law school in Oklahoma, was asked whether in his view...
Any doubt that the economic pendulum has swung in favour of countries in the Asian region must now be fast diminishing in the face of the rapid recovery of economies in that part of the world from the global recession.
There is a whiff of something unpleasant emanating from the Harold Brady affair, but tempered for now by the liberal application of artificial fragrance of the sickly sweet kind.This newspaper, however, hopes...
You could hear the anger in Pearnel Charles' voice last Monday on Beverley Manley's talk show. Challenged by the boldness of Mrs Edith Allwood-Anderson, president of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica, who wanted to fly past her nest and over his head to speak directly...
If you follow current commentary, the path could quite easily lead to the erroneous conclusion that the Armadale correctional facility was never anything much better than a cesspool of iniquity with everlasting conflict, wayward...
I was browsing through an old edition of National Geographic (December 2008) and I came across the following graphics based on a 2005 study by Fitzhugh Mullan, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health...
The report by the contractor general that last year's motor-vehicle auction by Jamaica Customs was flawed and lacked transparency should surprise no one.
The Editor, Sir:This letter is to warn travellers boarding flights at the Sangster International Airport of the danger they put themselves in when they check in their luggage.
The extradition affair - The only real opportunity most of us have to send a no-tolerance message to the politicians who help to hatch these criminals, we give it away by refusing to vote and speak out.
The Editor, Sir:Gordon Robinson, attorney-at-law, addressing us from the pulpit that he has very cleverly constructed behind the domino tables, through his contribution on Tuesday has invited the public to conclude that the legal profession is corrupt.
Why is it that Jamaica's law-enforcement machinery never seems to be able to catch, prosecute and convict Jamaican drug kingpins and arms traffickers by themselves? And yet the law-enforcement machinery...
Harold Brady must dismount his high horse, abandon the churlish pretence that he has somehow been wronged, and offer the Jamaican people a full and frank explanation of why his law firm was purporting to act on their...
Oddly enough, it was a non-Jamaican, Kaiser Bauxite's general manager, Ed Coyne, who introduced the Jamaica First programme back in 1981 as an antidote for post-election rancour to a nation polarised by a bitter election campaign...
In a week's time, Audley Shaw, the finance minister, will table the Government's annual Budget, which he and his boss, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, say will set the tone for the country's economic...
Religion is indeed a two-edged sword. There are so many persons who have performed acts of tremendous self-sacrifice through their love for their fellow man...
Last Saturday, at a meeting of Corporate Area Baptist churches, Rev Doreen Wynter congratulated me on the publication of the book, The Cross and Machete: The Native Baptists of Jamaican - Identity, Ministry and Legacy.
Mrs June Spence-Jarrett could not have been surprised by her reported sacking as head of the Department of Correctional Services, given the findings by Justice Paul Harrison into the Armadale tragedy which killed seven...
The Editor, Sir: That the Reverend Al Miller used the words "justice" and "principle" at least 16 times each in his long-winding letter on 'Dudus' can only mean two things.
As usual, the Beast had no partner for the Saturday afternoon domino game. Autry and I drove around looking for a fourth while The Beast waited outside Gene's home.
We would expect that an official with oversight responsibility for public health and safety standards would gladly welcome the efforts of people who report if and where these standards are perhaps being breached...
WHILE EVERALD Warmington was right for his vehement protest against the hijack of democracy by parliamentary leaders during that episode in the House last week, he unfortunately ignored the wider issue that triggered...
True Jamaican conundrum, If you live in the far West End of Negril, you are at the end of the main water supply pumping network from the Green Island station, which pumps water to the Negril area.
