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Editorial
Jamaican Editorials
Kudos to Harbour View FC
Saturday, May 18, 2013
WE join the football fraternity in hailing Harbour View FC, champions of the Red Stripe Premier League for 2012/2013. We are told that this is the fourth premier league title for a club which dates back several decades and was formally incorporated in 1974. The truth though is that the success of Harbour View Foot ...more
Capitalise on Rev Redwood's decision
Friday, May 17, 2013
GIVEN how the Rev Stanley Redwood gave a good account of himself during his short stint as Senate president, we have no doubt that he will, as he told this newspaper, continue to serve Jamaica from his new home in Canada. It will be easy, we believe ...more
Ban Ki-Moon's warning not to be taken lightly!
Thursday, May 16, 2013
UNITED Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a warning to the world's business community yesterday that, we believe, is most pertinent to Jamaica and indeed our sister Caribbean states. According to Mr Ban, economic losses linked to disasters ...more
Ever heard of Dr Don Shirley, another great but forgotten Jamaican?
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
MOST countries have a 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' to honour those whose achievements were heroic but forgotten. When things are tight financially, people don't want to bother with anything they regard as esoteric. However, we should consider erecti ...more
Dr Joyce Robinson, a true human treasure
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
There are treasures of the human spirit, treasures that we dare not, as a nation, ignore, or do so only at our collective peril. Dr Joyce Lilieth Robinson, who passed away on Sunday, was superlatively one of those human treasures whose life was devot ...more
The rightness of the Tivoli enquiry
Monday, May 13, 2013
IT is very long -- all of 248 pages -- and heavy on detail. Those to whom reading is often a bore may find it tedious. Although, to be fair, the public defender's lively and attractive literary style should serve as an antidote. Regardless, the repo ...more
Paucity of Caribbean citizens in the top echelons
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Former Prime Minister P J Patterson, speaking at the launch of Ambassador Rudy Insanally's new book Multilateral Diplomacy for Small States, bemoaned the fact that people from Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are no longer in top posts in inte ...more
Hailing Jamaica’s record run
Saturday, May 11, 2013
NOW that their dream of a sixth straight regional four-day title is over, it’s full time to hail Jamaica’s national cricket team for their extraordinary performance over the past five years. By winning five consecutive first class region ...more
No justification for NWC rate hike
Friday, May 10, 2013
IT'S hardly likely that National Water Commission (NWC) officials believe that the series of islandwide public consultations being held jointly with the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) will win support for the NWC's 19 per cent rate increase app ...more
Transfer sentiments about Air Jamaica to Fly Jamaica
Thursday, May 09, 2013
TRINIDAD-BASED Caribbean Airlines (CAL) assumed responsibility for Air Jamaica flights as well as the right to use the Air Jamaica brand name in 2010. But it is clear that Jamaicans still have lingering sentiments about Air Jamaica, which have not b ...more
Reparations debate needs to be settled
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
SIR Hilary Beckles' recently published book, Britain's Black Debt, has returned to the spotlight the burning issue of reparations. Launched last Thursday at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, the book definitively establishes that ...more
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