- Tourism continues to be main growth engine — PM 8:03 am
- England drop Stokes, Hales after arrest incident 7:43 am
- Guyana to export rice to Cuba; first shipment in 18 years 7:33 am
- All primary students must matriculate to secondary school — Reid 7:15 am
- O-Wrap: Four rifles seized, 13 arrested… Gov't aims to reduce NCDs… 13-y-o boy murdered 6:49 pm
- Gov't to partner with church on social intervention programmes 9:44 pm
Editorial
Keep your hands off Hanover BPO, Mr Politician!
The proposed plans by business process outsourcing (BPO) company Collective Solution to begin operations at the old and dilapidated Jockey garment factory could not have come at a better time for Hanoverians. Read More
Suffer the little children… 'I wish I could hide them'
Whatever the excuses — and there is a plethora of them — that we use to explain away the high prevalence of crime in Jamaica, let us not lose sight of the awful impact crime is having on our children. Read More
Cricket World Cup qualification on the line
We note Mr Christopher Gayle's kind words about the West Indies team which lost 1-3 to India in their One-Day International (ODI) series which ended last week. Read More
What became of the Golding Report on Caricom?
Not unlike most summits, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government meetings are notorious for being more talk than action. The more countries, the more talk, and the fewer the decisions and actual outcomes. Read More
Speak up on poor state of Reggae Boyz training field
The Reggae Boyz are off to the CONCACAF Gold Cup in San Diego, California, with coach Mr Theodore Whitmore hoping for at least a place in the knockout stage of the competition. Read More
The brutality in the honesty of UN officer Gonzalo Ramos
If some Jamaicans could have their way, they would declare United Nations safety and security officer, Mr Gonzalo Ramos persona non grata for his very clumsy public comments on crime in Jamaica. Read More
The remarkable Mrs Portia Simpson Miller
Mrs Portia Simpson Miller has called a halt to her truly remarkable political career lasting forty-three years — remarkable because of the length of unbroken tenure as a Member of Parliament starting in 1989. Read More
The culture of silence must be broken
In the context of debate on the recently passed Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) Bill and the need to protect human rights, we've made note of the promise by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to provide... Read More
The Bolt farewell: Let's take a leaf out of Ostrava's book
One could easily be forgiven for thinking that the athletics-loving Czech city of Ostrava was trying, last Wednesday, to tempt Jamaica's Mr Usain Bolt into seeking citizenship in much the same way as Slovenia with Merlene Ottey, one of Jamaica and the world's most decorated female... Read More
Hope that tragedy of Clacken death brings awareness
The tragic death of Mr Haile Clacken 10 days ago in Cheapside, Junction, presents an opportunity for Jamaicans to take a fresh look at mental illness. Read More
Carib on its own with global Sustainable Development Goals
The outlook for development assistance is bleak given the Trump Administration's plans to cut the aid budget by 36 per cent, Brexit's likely impact on European aid, and the Venezuelan political turmoil. Read More
New vision needed for Jamaica's football
Jamaicans said their final farewell to the legendary football visionary Captain Horace Burrell with a thanksgiving service for his life on Wednesday. Read More
Gov't, Opposition co-operation must be the new template
The coming together of the Government and the Opposition to pass the Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) Act Wednesday night must provide the template for matters dealing with crime going forward. Read More
National Service Corps shows someone is thinking
We are indeed very happy that the first batch of 250 recruits in the new National Service Corps (NSC) programme are in house at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) training facility at Newcastle in St Andrew and have already started their training. Read More
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