Portmore's plight
LAST FRIDAY, Portmore residents opposed to the imposition of a toll road linking their St. Catherine community to the Corporate Area, staged a protest outside the office of the Minister of Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill. This is the latest...
The way forward on the CCJ: Why cooperation is a must
ON MAY 11, 1655, we are told, Admiral Penn and General Venables, after an unsuccessful expedition to the Central American mainland, came to Jamaica and, having overpowered the Spanish overlords here, captured Jamaica in the name of... - A. J. Nicholson
No CCJ horse-trading
I AM dead set against the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Less than one per cent of all the civil and criminal matters before the courts in Jamaica go to the Privy Council, the court of final appeal it is meant to replace. - Dawn Ritch
No expatriation from 'Black Paradise'
IN THREE weeks in February, I have managed to squeeze in four black history columns. Well, OT is working OT (overtime) on the topic. So 'Richa' Marley has indicated that Bob's wishes were for him to be buried in Ethiopia. - Orville W. Taylor
The politics of statistics
NOTHING IN politics is more fascinating and for some more disturbing, than the unexpected. Dr. Karl Blythe who walked off into the political wilderness two years ago, after the Operation Pride controversy, created that sort of effect... - Cedric Wilson
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