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Published:Monday | January 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

There is very little that can be predicted with confidence about Syria, save for the fact that the days of President Bashar al-Assad are now numbered...

Published:Monday | January 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

It's too bad we can't always get what we want, isn't it? Sure, our desires would likely clash with other people's, and yes, if we were still all supposed to get whatever we wanted, this could trigger a cataclysmic fracture of the space-time continuum...

Published:Monday | January 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The culture of a people is, to some extent, the source of its identity. Culture could even be seen as a nation's stamp on the fabric of history....

Published:Monday | January 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Do you think the prime minister's comment about deliberately not watching the news is responsible? This goes to show how unprepared and weak the PM is.

Published:Sunday | January 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The likelihood is that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will very soon offer a full report on the three-day sessions of the Cabinet at which there was supposed to be a review of the economy and an articulation of strategies to lift it out of its crisis.

Published:Sunday | January 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

When your 'hand' is dead, chop it off. Then hope for the best. There's still a chance you'll survive, or even win. That's the sound advice any domino dummy will give you when you run into a dead end.

Published:Sunday | January 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The year 2013 has produced two significant milestones in Jamaica's history as it marks the 75th anniversary of two noteworthy events that influenced the transformation of Jamaica's socio-political landscape.

Published:Sunday | January 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

More and more Jamaicans are moving towards a collective concern that the foundations of the country's economy are crumbling. The Jamaican economy is among the worst performing in the world.

Published:Sunday | January 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica anxiously awaits the results of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiations. That the talks have been protracted is no secret. That the self-imposed deadline for completing the negotiation has passed is worrying to the populace.

Published:Saturday | January 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

You've heard about the late James Brown, or the 'Godfather of Soul', but what about the Godfather of Sole or the Codfather?

Published:Saturday | January 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

One of the great failings of successive Jamaican administrations has been their inability to find suitable solutions to ensure the humane treatment of children in state care.

Published:Saturday | January 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:

Salt was the last thing I would have imagined to be introduced to the Ministry of Youth and Culture, at least deliberately.

Published:Saturday | January 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I have just recently returned to Jamaica after spending the holidays abroad and was advised that I should visit the Ministry of National Security's Traffic Ticket Amnesty Online Query web page, as even though persons such as myself were sure that they had no outstanding traffic tickets, their names may still appear on the list.

Published:Friday | January 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The business of black footballers walking off the field following racist taunts is becoming disturbing. These footballers are going about things entirely the wrong way...

Published:Friday | January 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We are not as concerned as most that Jamaica hasn't yet concluded a borrowing agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Published:Friday | January 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The year 2012 will remain a poignant memory in terms of the weather we suffered, with dark premonitions for the future.Is 2013 going to be a good year for weather? Or should we now pay closer attention to the phenomenon of global warming?

Published:Friday | January 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

A woman who can't support herself and earn her own way - who every week has to borrow money to go to the supermarket, to pay the electricity and water bills, and to buy petrol for her car - is not an independent woman...

Published:Thursday | January 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

On Christmas Day, the TVJ 7 p.m. newscast carried items about persons who are poor and were given an annual meal. One would have expected that the newscast would explain the significance of Christmas Day, that is, as a celebration of God appearing as flesh in Jesus the Christ....

Published:Thursday | January 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The entire nation is panicking that there is no agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).One would think the loan, and green light to other multilateral lenders, are the oxygen for our economy.

Published:Thursday | January 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

My friend Dr Lascelve 'Muggy' Graham has been leading a charge to put an end to the transfer of students from one school to another in order to bolster sports programmes.Apparently, Dr Graham thinks that this practice is wrong...

Published:Thursday | January 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

There will be temptation among skittish members of the Government, we fear, to slink behind the recent acknowledgement by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard that the Fund underestimated the potentially deflationary...

Published:Wednesday | January 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Judging from last Sunday evening's hunky-dory speech by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, our Government may not have noticed that Jamaica is hanging precariously over, according to the American coinage, a fiscal cliff.Or, the PM has deliberately...

Published:Wednesday | January 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The foregoing Jamaican proverb seems quite apposite in the context of utterances being carried in the media as regards the fate which may befall persons with outstanding traffic tickets who, for one reason or another, have failed to take advantage of the amnesty.

Published:Wednesday | January 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

One week into the new year and 2013 is starting to feel old - very old, indeed.The stench of rotting garbage is everywhere, highway carnage, traffic-ticket amnesty fiasco, creeping confusion over negotiations with the International Monetary Fund ...

Published:Wednesday | January 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The woman gets to work at her government job by 6:30 a.m.on Monday. She's in two hours early because she has to print 160 coloured programmes for her church's upcoming games night...

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