'NOT YET' PM shuns JLP's election call
PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) president and Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, says the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) boast of having an oiled and ready election machinery will not influence when she calls the next general...
Impeachment loophole for judges
FOLLOWING WHAT has been described as an unprecedented move to subvert the rule of law by Trinidad and Tobago's Chief Justice, at least one legal expert confirms the same thing could happen here.
Bouygues silent on toll numbers
ALTHOUGH THEY were happy to trot out the numbers in the public relations battle last Monday over the boycott of the Portmore leg of the tolled Highway 2000, the highway's French owner/operator says it will no longer make public statements...
More glory for Ja
JAMAICA PUSHED their medal tally at the 20th Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Cartagena, Colombia, to 10, following three more medals on Friday night.
Israel, backers continue to miss the point
History, they say, has a habit of repeating itself, but often with nasty quirks. So, it seems, does Israel. Let's be reminded of a little piece of history. In 1982, Israel's army crossed its border into Lebanon ostensibly to secure its northern...
Good service at Brown's Town Tax Office
THE EDITOR, Sir: SO OFTEN I hear complaints about poor service experienced by frustrated customers at both public service and private sector operations. There is one government service operation which receives minuses in abundance in the press and on...
REGGAE SINGS OF AFRICA
AFRICA IS the mother of countless nations, whose children are spread across the globe. Reggae music has long had a history of social consciousness that evokes the sentiments of African-minded men, such as, Marcus Garvey.
Fly Travels
'I,' SAID the Fly, 'with my little eye I saw him die.' And I was about to say the Cock Robin poem for the third time when my cousin Leroy stopped me.
The Parkes triplets - Soulmates and sisters
On the steep hillsides of Minnard Heights in Brown's Town, St. Ann, where one would think that only fleet-footed goats feel at home, teenagers Kemille, Kemesha and Kemoya Parkes thrive.
TRIBAL WAR in the Middle East
THE INTRACTABILITY of the Middle East problem stands as a most distressingly poignant and gut-wrenching testimony to the baleful power of religion in human affairs. Reason and compromise are anathema to some religious folk and a region awash in blood...
Music festival set to rock Port Royal
AVAST, ME mates! Fire up the cannons, and alert the masses. Next month, Paradise Communications Limited, headed by Neville Blythe, will invade the sleepy town of Port Royal with the inaugural staging of the Port Royal Music Festival.
Bush launches Mideast diplomacy
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters): UNITED STATES President George W. Bush yesterday launched a round of diplomacy on the crisis in southern Lebanon, saying the United States would urge Arab leaders to help pressure Hezbollah as well as Syria and Iran.
