Editorials
The West Indies have not beaten mighty Australia in a Test series since 1993 and there is absolutely no reason to believe that situation will have changed at the close of the upcoming tour Down Under....more
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Miss Shanica Stewart, class prefect of Miss Shantoy Lawrence, the 14-year-old Cambridge High School student in need of critical heart surgery to save her life, makes a compelling point in yesterday's edition of our sister title, the Observer West....more 11 comments
Thursday, November 05, 2009
If we could step out of our minds and look objectively at the state of our country today, we might say with Thomas Paine in his The Crisis, that these, truly, are the times that try men's souls....more 58 comments
Mr Latibeaudiere: a costly governorship
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The 13-year tenure of Mr Derick Latibeaudiere as governor of the Bank of Jamaica was, without a doubt, a costly one for the country. His exit is not a personal feud between himself and Mr Audley Shaw, the finance minister. As they are reputed to say in the Mafia: it is not personal, it is just business....more 58 comments
The reintegration of Dr Phillips
Monday, November 02, 2009
Having contested and lost twice, Dr Peter Phillips is possibly irreparably damaged in terms of ambitions he may still have to lead the opposition People's National Party (PNP)....more 38 comments
The power of print advertising
Sunday, November 01, 2009
The mind-boggling success of last Thursday's Observer Fashion's Night Out has brought two significant points to the fore....more 8 comments
Saturday, October 31, 2009
We are particularly heartened by last week's pledge by Prime Minister Mr Bruce Golding to lend more Government support to the sporting discipline of netball....more 8 comments
Friday, October 30, 2009
There's been a lot of talk lately about the so-called 'scammers', a grouping of mostly young people from western Jamaica who are making a killing - in every sense of the word - by conning Americans out of millions of dollars....more 27 comments
Fashion's Night Out a superlative initiative
Thursday, October 29, 2009
It is clear, by the robust response, that the Jamaican merchant community has, as have their counterparts elsewhere in the world, gladly embraced the concept of a special shopping night out being titled "Fashion's Night Out", or FNO....more 9 comments
Getting value for money from Aubyn Hill, et al
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The issue of value for money for services provided by usually well-paid individuals and institutions has become topical, following the disclosure that almost $30 million had been paid to Mr Aubyn Hill's firm to handle the sale of the state-owned sugar companies....more 14 comments
Police Federation spewing balderdash
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
During his tenure as police chief, Commissioner Lucius Thomas charged at a conference of the Police Federation that there were criminals in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)....more 107 comments
Monday, October 26, 2009
A major failing of human beings is the tendency to view events in a narrow, parochial fashion without taking into consideration the interrelatedness to the wider social environment....more 44 comments
Sunday, October 25, 2009
It is not the practice of this space to preach gloom and doom, but when we review the items that made the news last week, it's hard not to do otherwise....more 87 comments
In praise of strength and resolve
Saturday, October 24, 2009
This newspaper would be at fault were we to allow any more time to go by without paying tribute to the graciously charming, yet lion-hearted sprint hurdler Mrs Brigitte Foster-Hylton - the 2009 winner of the Courtney Walsh Award for Excellence....more 13 comments
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