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Editorial
Jamaican Editorials
Late, but not too late on the logistics hub
Sunday, December 08, 2013
Last week, Jamaica celebrated the Eisenhower Fellowship Programme which has operated since 1953. To date, 14 Jamaicans, starting with Mr Horace Barber in 1969 and including Mr Morin Seymour and Dr Keith Panton, have been selected from a global catchment of applicants. Jamaican Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr has been awarded ...more
A job well done in executing schoolboy football season
Saturday, December 07, 2013
After a long, hectic run, the annual schoolboy football season comes to an end today with the second leg of the all-island ISSA/LIME Olivier Shield in Kingston.
Readers will be aware that Manning Cup (Corporate Area) champions Jamaica College have a ...more
Mr Nelson Mandela — a true monument to human greatness
Friday, December 06, 2013
We join the world in mourning the passing of Mr Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest human beings ever to have graced the face of this earth.
The flood of tributes from world leaders to the former political prisoner turned president, who left us yest ...more
Shame and scandal in the family!
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Some of us in this beloved island exist in splendid isolation from the reality, in a bubble even, as evidenced by the things we choose to spend our energies on.
Take as an example, the foolish preoccupation with the cost and "frequency" of overseas ...more
To Port of Spain with love, not hate
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
THE page three picture of the foreign ministers of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica smiling at each other in yesterday's edition of this newspaper is worth much more than the proverbial thousand words. Last week, we had fretted somewhat in this space ...more
Private-public sector partnership big winner at Business Leader Awards
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
The eight-member selection panel that adjudicated this year's Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award were indeed correct when they described their task of choosing a winner as "Herculean".
For no one can deny that the seven nominated public sector e ...more
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Monday, December 02, 2013
JAMAICAN police have consistently, over many years, identified domestic violence — involving people who know each other well — as a significant contributor to the country's high murder rate.
In Manchester, for example, a parish easily th ...more
The law is an ass, so move on, Dr Tufton
Sunday, December 01, 2013
It is not for nothing that Charles Dickens used the phrase "the law is an ass" in his 1838 novel Oliver Twist. But like it or not, we are a country of laws and not of men. Hence we abide by last week's ruling of the Supreme Court in rejecting the in ...more
Welcome and a prayer for Mr Heaven
Saturday, November 30, 2013
A major irony is that, despite the considerable success of the national cricket team over recent years, the internal structures of Jamaica's cricket have been, at best, shambolic.
The parish and club competitions are abbreviated, and largely unspons ...more
Putting Dr Carolyn Gomes in context
Friday, November 29, 2013
THERE'S no doubt that the person who will succeed Dr Carolyn Gomes as executive director of rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) will have big shoes to fill.
For, love her or hate her, Dr Gomes has made a tremendous contribution to this country ...more
It's not about Trinidad, seriously
Thursday, November 28, 2013
YESTERDAY, in this space, we addressed the issue of how to treat with our Caricom sister nation, Trinidad and Tobago, after the recent deportation of 13 Jamaicans.
Today, we return to that issue given the calls for the boycott of imports from Trinid ...more
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