In Focus

We are reading media reports that foreign diplomats have been trying to tell a past prime minister who should or should not be in our Cabinet. We suspect that they also want to tell us how our Cabinet should run foreign policy.

An ominous frontal system dropping rain has ushered in this year's hurricane season. Today is World Environment Day. The weather watchers are predicting up to 16 Atlantic storms this year as a period of more frequent and more powerful hurricanes swirls on.

I have been fascinated by trains all my life. I recall with nostalgia the famous steam-driven train Engine 38, with its billowing clouds of steam and smoke floating backwards over the caboose and the attached coal car, while the sweating engineer and driver tended the behemoth of a machine as it shunted from one track to another in the May Pen trainyard of my boyhood days.

My piece on FINSAC published in The Sunday Gleaner of May 15 elicited responses in the May 22 edition of the same paper. The responses have come from Mr Claude Clarke, a former minister of trade; Dr Paul Chen-Young, former executive chairman of the Eagle Group; and your regular columnist Gordon Robinson.

Everyone is still here, including Mr Harold Camping and his faithful calculator and followers.

This is the third in a series of articles by the writer on the Charter of Rights.As Jamaica prepared to take its place among sovereign states in 1962, Norman Washington Manley, the chief architect of the development of our Independence Constitution, set...

Fortunately, 'false prophet' Harold Camping is living in the 21st century. If he had been alive when Old Testament law prevailed, he would have been executed for pretentiously declaring he spoke God's truth when, in reality, he was speaking in the name of God falsely.

As I read the article 'Finsac: the truth' (Sunday Gleaner, May 15, 2011) by Dr Omar Davies, architect of the failed financial and economic policies during the period that led to the collapse of the domestic financial sector, closures of numerous businesses...

The heavy weight of negativity by some Jamaicans overseas is unbelievable yet understandable.

The Government's Budget is designed to give capital a friendly tax, inflation and interest-rate environment to induce it to invest. There was nothing in it for labour.

The desirable characteristics of a system of taxation are generally cited as simplicity (easy to pay and collect), transparency (clarity as to who actually pays a tax that is levied), efficiency...

This is the third instalment of Edward Seaga's contribution to the recent Prime Ministerial Reflections series.The gap in the interdigitated structure of the two Jamaicas is closing on all fronts, but too slowly.