MALCOLM GLADWELL'S best-seller aptly describes the phenomenon wherein a momentous action can result from an incremental, seemingly insignificant change.
Is Noel's argument flawed?In response to yesterday's article by Keith Noel titled: 'Western media and the black man', the writer gave the Sarajevo and Rwandan examples of Western media bias - but are they really equal? Rough estimates put the...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding will claim, with some justification, that he and his government were severely provoked. But provocation notwithstanding, we view as wrong and unfortunate Mr Golding's very public and savage assessment...
MARTIN HENRY'S Sunday Gleaner column of January 31 entitled 'Chaka-chaka social behaviour' continues to resonate as a context for identifying what is wrong and dangerous about the present state of our public behaviour....
Today, Prime Minister Bruce Golding will preside over the formal opening in downtown Kingston of the new offices of the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA).
Early this week, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Qatar audience that Iran's political and religious leadership were being supplanted by the Revolutionary Guards, the country's elite military corps.This thesis has been bubbling up...
YESTERDAY WAS celebrated as Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season when many Christians are given to fasting, prayer and repentance as one gives a concentrated look at the life, suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
THE GOVERNMENT is understandably upbeat about the market upgrading of its debt to B-minus by the rating agency, Fitch. We, too, welcome the move. Fitch's decision tells the global credit market that Jamaica is not facing imminent economic catastrophe
I WAS in a debate on Facebook recently with a number of young people who claimed things like "all countries in Africa are marked by corruption and horrific ethnic violence", and quoted as their main argument the fact that nearly...
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2010 | 12:00 AM
IN AN article in Monday's (February 15) issue of your newspaper, titled 'Stop polluting the social environment', your contributor, Reginald Budhan, issues a strong appeal for a major assault on the forms of popular entertainment and media presentations...
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE RECENT execution of Washington sniper John Muhammad reminded me of how much I am against the death penalty.And how contradictory my position on the execution of murderers appears.
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Mr Junior Rose's prescription for dealing with the problem of joblessness among young people was clearly naive and perhaps juvenile. Hopefully, however, his remarks will lead to discussion of a related demographic issue...
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2010 | 12:00 AM
An appeal to NWCIt is sad that we have been in a drought for the past few months and we have not heard a proper plan put forward by the National Water Commission (NWC) to ease its customers' plight.
An open letter to Information Minister Daryl Vaz - JAMAICAN OLD people have a 'saying' for almost every occasion. The one that comes to mind now is 'what don't happen in a year happen in a day'...
IN 1981, John Hinckley - a mentally ill young man in his 20s - shot US President Ronald Reagan, his press secretary and two security personnel in an assassination attempt....
WHILE DWIGHT Nelson's frustration at last week's decision by a judge to grant bail to three accused kidnappers is appreciated, it is important that the security minister contain his anger lest he obscure context and make irrational statements...
The fragility of our physical existence has been brought into sharp focus with the recent Haiti catastrophe, and several occurrences within my life and the lives of several close friends.
THE PUBLIC ought not to hold its breath on the expectation that it will hear much more, or certainly not the gritty details, about last week's 'friendly fire' shooting in Clarendon of two policemen from the constabulary's Organised Crime Investigation...
The country's Broadcasting Commission, through its recent action against lewd music, videos, etc., has given me hope in the Jamaican society. The commission must be congratulated for clamping down on lewd and violence-oriented lyrics and videos.
Jamaican film-makers, scriptwriters, actors, cinemato-graphers, editors, graphic artists, set designers, musicians and other members of the creative industries were disappointed to read that the minister in charge of the minister in charge...
The pressures of a bad economic situation exemplified by the record 20 million Americans out of work, massive loss of wealth by families, and the insecurity arising therefrom, are fuelling anger against political incumbents in the United States.
In the event of appeals, it could be a long time, even years after the March 8 date that Justice Ingrid Mangatal set for a hearing of the matter by the full court, before there is a legal determination of the...
