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Published:Sunday | April 1, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Hubert DevonishContributorProfessor Errol Miller, the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), made a startling declaration in a national broadcast on television two days prior to the December 29, 2011 general election in Jamaica.

Published:Sunday | April 1, 2012 | 12:00 AM

THE PURSUIT of alternative energy is fundamental to a positive future for Jamaica.

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Weeks ago (February 19; 'Where's this 'growth' to come from?'), I predicted: "The US isn't decisively emerging from its recent recession any time soon. In fact, I guarantee you it'll be sinking into a new, deeper recession within the next 12 months ... . Rapid inflation is on the way both in the US and in Jamaica.

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In December 2011 and March 2012, The Economist, a highly respected magazine which covers a wide range of subjects from politics to business, ran two interesting articles looking at the debate over the size of firms.

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The quote is probably apocryphal, but if Mahatma didn't say it, he should have. Now we have something close to a global civilisation: most of the world's people work in similar economies, use the same machines, and live about as long. They even know most of the same things and have the same ambitions.

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The outrage over the killing of 16-year-old Vanessa Kirkland, which has even drawn the tongue of the normally quiescent Jamaica Council of Churches, reminds me of how far humanity has evolved in our moral understanding and practice.

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

As schoolboys, we used to tease our fellows who were in scouts, cadets, boys' brigade and other uniformed groups as they marched to the shouts of the drill master, because the silly comment was, "Why must you lef (leave) right and tek up wrong?"

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

This year's writing of the Grade Six Achievement Test went by last Thursday and Friday and 44,000 'traumatised' 11-year-olds - and their parents - can breathe again, at least until results time in June. More students registered than actually took the test.

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Dr Lascelve 'Muggy' Graham's 'The numbers game in high school sports', which appeared in The Gleaner of Saturday, March 17, 2010, argues against the 'importation' of athletes into high school. There are some unstated assumptions which underlie this argument.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Daniel Thwaites, in a column titled 'The Christian root of human rights' (Gleaner, March 13, 2012), offers an interesting, but somewhat flawed critique of my presentation at a recently held Public Law forum at the Norman Manley Law School.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

A major fault line in the Jamaican psyche is class and racial prejudice.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Some nation states have been fairly successful in promoting the major planks of women's sexual health and reproductive rights.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

I recently viewed a YouTube video titled 'A very Motty encounter', which featured a very spirited debate between the recently deceased radio journalist, Wilmot Perkins, and the lawyer and pan-African activist, Bert Samuels.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Will you condemn the just and mighty One?

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

"Justice, truth be ours forever, Jamaica, land we love." It is not coincidental or wishful thinking.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In this October 12, 2010 file photo, Israeli soldiers walk next to the tank Merkava 'Mark 4' as they take part in a large military exercise at the Shizafon Armored Corps Training Base in the Arava desert, southern Israel.

Published:Sunday | March 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

At midnight on August 5, 1962, the bundled-up Jamaican flag did not 'hitch'.

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In an article published in The Sunday Gleaner of March 4, 2012, the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) responded to my article published the previous week on problems afflicting the manufacturing sector. While I agree with the association that manufacturing in Jamaica is not dead, the sector suffers from unrealised potential because of insufficient leadership, governance, strategy and accountability.

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The fiery controversy over the prime minister's reference to Greece in that Bloomberg interview has died down, but the release of the transcripts reveals that she made some other noteworthy statements which have so far not generated any comment in the media.

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In he flew on the iron bird and travelled in the covered chariots. This prince, the heir of King Arthur's legacy, wielded no Excalibur, the magic sword, but into the land of the Mercury, the god of speed with wings on his feet, did he venture.

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, representing his grandma, The Queen, on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, arrived here on nomination day for local government elections.The Bolt-beating, sharpshooting Prince came in a week when a police operation in western Kingston led to the deaths of six people...

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The main design concepts of the Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) on Tax Reform proposals, carefully analysed and modelled over nine months, indicate what we believe to be the formula for sustainable growth, while protecting the vulnerable in our society.

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The moment society recognised the benefit of public goods and services to the quality of people's lives, the taxes needed to finance them became as inevitable as death itself. But the value of taxation has progressed well beyond this benefit. Tax policy has become one of the principal tools for organising a society to realise its full economic and social potential.

Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Well, however much that tiny logo on Harry's shirt earned Puma, it cannot be close to the windfall that big Jamaica on his chest brought to this country. No doubt the picture and video of King Usain and the Prince doing 'the arrow' will also be a poster child for the 2012 London Olympics.

Published:Sunday | March 4, 2012 | 12:00 AM

West Indies cricket is in deep crisis.

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