In Focus

There is much expectation of big benefits from the logistics hub project which is to be set up in Jamaica. Only three major logistics hubs exist worldwide: Singapore, Dubai, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

I didn't want to be an Alpha girl. Coming from Norman Gardens Primary, my first choice was not the Convent of Mercy (Alpha) Academy for high school. My plan was to attend Excelsior, like my neighbours, or St Hugh's, like my sister. When results came out and I was assigned to Alpha, I was pretty down.

This is the time of year when five men and three women compete in the annual Stephen Potter Invitational Tennis Tournament at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston.

Anyone in his right mind, and yours, would want to see the scourge of violent crimes brought under control. And Parliament has acted decisively in passing anti-gang Criminal Justice (Suppre-ssion of Criminal Organisations) Bill.

In an article titled 'Tessanne-mania is a national embarrassment', Gleaner online columnist Keiran King wrote on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, inter alia:

The potential of a girl is powerful.

The attitude of so-called Christians towards matters of sex is usually accompanied by an irrational hostility, and resides in a never-never land somewhere between hypocrisy and bigotry.

Opposition Senator Ruel Reid has received an avalanche of criticism regarding his call for a mandatory policy bonding Jamaicans (males and females) to have no more than two children for at least the next 10 years...

The lead headline in last Monday's Gleaner was 'Cold case freeze - Thousands of unsolved murders are decades old'. A cold case is one that hasn't been solved and in which police investigation is no longer active.

What works best in education? What would we need to do to develop a world-class educational system? We could start by reading the New York Times best-seller, The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way by Time magazine journalist and think tank fellow, Amanda Ripley.

This morning, in 1925, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, still the greatest black man to walk earth, after Jesus (who was also black), woke up to his first day in federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia. He was convicted for what other Jamaicans of notoriety have done, more recently, to bring the country into disrepute.

The 19th Meeting of the International Climate Conference of the Parties (COP 19) was recently concluded in Warsaw, Poland (November 11-22, 2013).