In Focus

The Austerity Apostle Peter presented his 'New Covenant' Budget to the nation last Thursday, doing his daredevil walking-on-water feat, while keeping his eyes fixed on his Master and Saviour, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "Mr Speaker, the best gift that this Parliament can give Jamaica in this 50th year of Independence is a new and binding covenant with the people of Jamaica ... to achieve fiscal consolidation and debt sustainability."

Humanity won when Barack Obama publicly endorsed gay marriage. It was also a brilliant, carefully planned and ruthlessly executed political manoeuvre.

The most profound issues raised by the evidence offered in the sentencing hearing of confessed Jamaican crime boss Christopher 'Dudus' Coke relate to the indictment of the Jamaica criminal-justice system.

Of all the 193 nations in the world, I would like the international and internal critics of this little piece of rock with sand, sex, wood and hard water to write a list of 10 nations where: a woman can be head of government; women can have equal presence in media, including heading a major radio and a minor television station, and two of the country's six top cops are female.

When Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik entered the Utoya island café last July and opened fire, killing 13 people, young Glenn Waldenstrom was shot in the face, then pretended to be dead. Realising he could no longer speak because of his injuries, he "spat some blood on the floor and wrote my family's telephone number in the blood". ".

During the parliamentary debate on his expenditure budget, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips was his usual statesmanlike self when he told his House colleagues that "as a Parliament, we can't all be for more expenditure and at the same time be for the...

Pay attention to the comments by the minister of finance and the earlier one by the minister of labour and tell me if there is any difference between what the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) said three years ago and what the People's National Party (PNP) is...

The raging public debate on the ongoing tiff between the fearless contractor general, Greg Christie, and equally pugnacious public prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn, in the most part has not included plausible solutions designed to reconcile these two great...

The reclassification of new secondary schools to high schools began in 1988

Contractor General Greg Christie, who demits office later this year (as early as July 2012, if his accumulated leave is taken, or as late as November, at the end of his seven-year contract), is in danger of squandering gains made during his tenure if he...

In a scenario that is becoming increasingly common as Europe's budget-cutting measures intensify, 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas recently took his life.

This could be your member of parliament's (MP) finest hour.