Editorial

The budgetary exercise may be boring but let's not turn it into a circus 9:00 pm

To break the tedium of the annual budget exercise, the presenters in recent years have been endeavouring to add colour and drama, apparently in the hope of attracting more listeners from among those who usually find the whole thing too boring.

Budget shows value of maintaining fiscal discipline 3:16 am
In a very long budget speech that can only be described as a masterclass in public finance, Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke outlined a key aspect of our economic history.

Do we still need mask mandates and other restrictions? 6:20 pm
The consistently low positivity rate stacked up against the low vaccination rate makes a powerful argument that Jamaica has achieved, if not herd immunity, a significantly high rate of natural immunity against the novel coronavirus.

Inspiring hope through the voice of sport heroes

Saturday, March 12, 2022

THERE is always value in having sport heroes talk with children in school. Invariably, those talks serve to inspire. And if those discussions help to change even one life for the better they are worth the time and effort.

West Indies' tenacity gives reason for serious investment in women's cricket

Friday, March 11, 2022

Outside of an unwavering loyalty to West Indies cricket, not many people in the region, we believe, thought that the women's team would have started the ICC World Cup so well.

Celebrating women: Contraceptives one of the greatest inventions

Thursday, March 10, 2022

As women all over the world bask in the aftermath of celebrations making International Women's Day on Tuesday, it is worthy of note that it is only 50 years ago that America gave unmarried couples the legal right to use contraceptives for birth...

Putin: A tyrant who doesn't deserve to be running a country

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

IN January 1933, when Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, he grabbed every opportunity to turn that country into a police State intent on European conquest and so-called racial purification.

International Women's Day: A woman's place is in the house…

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

We expect and hope that all real men, and women, of course, will greet this headline with the requisite outrage that it deserves, but will be relieved to hear that we jest, and the full statement is: “A woman's place is in the House and the Senate.”

Flexibility, efficiency required on return to full face-to-face school

Monday, March 7, 2022

Inflexibility is often counterproductive. Hence our approval of indicators from the authorities that they will be on their toes prepared to adjust, twist, turn, and come again as full face-to-face classes resume in schools across Jamaica...

A professional foreign service is a must, as Ukraine has shown

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Small developing countries have limited impact on international events affecting them, and usually have to act in consort with a larger group of more powerful nations to achieve anything of substance in world affairs.

In praise of Messrs Ramadhin, Marsh and Warne

Saturday, March 5, 2022

They say “It never rains but it pours.” The death on Friday of the Australian Mr Shane Warne, arguably cricket's greatest-ever spin bowler, at age 52, followed just hours after his great countryman, Mr Rodney Marsh, a wicketkeeper/batsman who was dominant in...