Usain Bolt to race Asafa Powell on May 31 - Sports - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Looks like Asafa Powell wants to test his preparedness for the Olympic Games, not to mention to earn some always welcome cash. Nice publicity too, in order to raise expectations for the athletics clash on the track at the Olympics later this year.

Usain Bolt to race Asafa Powell on May 31 - Sports - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

I don't like the beating thing either!

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

Reggae Boyz beat New Zealand 3-2 - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

The former heroes of Jamaican foootball.....Reggae Boyz are back?
Reggae Boyz beat New Zealand 3-2 - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

JFJ: Remove soldiers from Horizon Centre - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaicans For Justice needs to look higher up! The soldiers are not the problem.
JFJ: Remove soldiers from Horizon Centre - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Students' Loan Bureau summoned for withholding grants - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Dr Campbell may be right; we need to understand. Is it that applicants aren't following the correct procedure to get these grants or does the Students Loan Bureau need a major culture change?
Students' Loan Bureau summoned for withholding grants - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican dollar to lose value - Analysts - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

The Peoples National Party & the Jamaican media, last year ignored the reasons for the increase in unemployment & poverty between 2007 & 2011. However, they have been at pains at every opportunity to explain that crime fell under the Jamaica Labour Party only because of what happened at Tivoli. Tivoli, they claim, only happened becuase of pressure from them. Now , here we are under the PNP with murders rising & interest rates rising. The US dollar is rising compared to the Jamaican dollar & according to this report, it's expected to reach JMD$89 to US$1 by the time we officially reach 50. Is the Jamaican media going to blame the PNP for these things without excuses? I won't hold my breath. I wouldn't reccommend that you do so either
Jamaican dollar to lose value - Analysts - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica Editorial Cartoons

Wrong focus Clovis! The ones running & screaming should be in business suits &expensive vehicles. THEY fund the gun buying & hide the proceeds of crime.
Jamaica Editorial Cartoons

Jamaican boy to be deported from Antigua - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Can you BELIEVE these people? What are his parents sending him back here to do? Read what the magistrate said! Unbelievable!!!!
Jamaican boy to be deported from Antigua - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Government gives support to local nutraceutical sector

The lip-service, hypocrisy & red tape over the years have almost stifled this and other ventures. We could have been much further along the development road if it weren't for pompous bureaucrats with no imagination! Many great efforts have been stifled instead of facilitated by these people& their rules. It is their limited vision of how our economy should look that has held us back.Sugar,banana, bauxite, smallscale manufacturing & if those become uncompetitive, we shouldn't nimbly shift to non traditional areas like this & niche markets. In other words, if the traditional holders of money aren't interested in a project, no one else is to be facilitated. I'm including the financial institutions in this massive ossified road block that has trapped us where we are while other countries have leaped ahead. I pray that the desperate times will break the stranglehold & set free our creative & industrial potential so we can really make our mark using this & many other non-traditional routes.
Government gives support to local nutraceutical sector

EDITORIAL - JTA silly amid dismal educational outcomes - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | February 27, 2012

The Jamaica Teachers Association wants the Ministry Of Education to find a way to take teachers out of the classroom during school time in order to attend training sessions. That way, they would get to use school holidays intended for the students, for whatever they like. Quite apart from the damage that would do to teaching time in the classrooms there is another side. It's true that big private sector companies require employees to attend training & do it mostly during the work week. Many companies also require employees, in the interest of their own proffessional development, to attend training on days off, without additional pay. The JTA seems determined to secure for its members, treatment only available to employees of top private sector firms but at tax payers' expense. Clearly they must think we are as well off as those big companies! It seems they want to cherry pick from private sector practise, what will put more money in their pockets & more time on their hands but leave the work ethic & pay by performance behind.
EDITORIAL - JTA silly amid dismal educational outcomes - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | February 27, 2012

B'dos Gov't report claims finger-rape of J'can woman is false - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Do you believe these people? When will Jamaica get back to the place where the governments and people of Barbados & other small islands stop treating us like undesirables?

B'dos Gov't report claims finger-rape of J'can woman is false - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Farewell 'Motty' Perkins, the poor people's professor

For posterity.....

Farewell 'Motty' Perkins, the poor people's professor

New boards in place - Vin Lawrence heads Clarendon Alumina Production team

Jobs, jobs, jobs! By their deeds ye shall know them.From Yvonne McAlla Sobers to Milton Samuda to Garnett Roper, remember not just what they said but how they said it. See them being rewarded now?

New boards in place - Vin Lawrence heads Clarendon Alumina Production team

A last-gasp reprieve for JCA?

I like this except for saying the JCA has belatedly found its voice. That sounds a little naive. It is true but we all know the reason, don't we? The JCA executive was recently changed. The previous JCA executive supported the WICB's position on Chris Gayle & everything else. They were in control for years, including when Gayle got sidelined. The former president supported the WICB boss Julian Hunt blindly. Even the government at the time couldn't have said much because the JCA at the time would not have supported them. That would've been embarrassing! I see the allegations against the former boss of the JCA instructive of the attitude of that whole cabal. I mean....attacking a member of the executive in his office because you think he's likely to not support you in an election? Jumping on the man's desk and all that? Either the WICB shapes up or we should leave! Enough is enough! That's what I say! What do you say?

A last-gasp reprieve for JCA?

Arscott in the hot seat

Talk up Minister!!

Arscott in the hot seat

Psychologist calls for serious teacher training to deal with behavioural issues - News - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 24, 2012

I don't need to say much here, except to ask how we can get more people like this into our public school system? You MUST read this from start to finish.
Psychologist calls for serious teacher training to deal with behavioural issues - News - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 24, 2012

Portia demands WICB apologise - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 24, 2012

Damn right PM! The time for being diplomatic with the WICB passed when they diplomatically ignored the very thorough report & recommendation presented by PJ Patterson some years ago! Gayle has never been given an opportunity in a hearing, to defend himself. Why then has he been in effect, suspended for so long. Is the board waiting for for his cricketing career to come to an end? Timefor this underhanded vendetta to end!
Portia demands WICB apologise - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 24, 2012

NEPA seeking beach compliance - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 24, 2012

So AFTER, the boys died, the regulator has started running around seeking to do what they should have been doing all along. This is talk, talk & nothing but talk. A lawsuit against the regulators among others, seeking heavy damages seems to be in order. That appears to be a more effective way of making them do their jobs than just trusting them. "Ainsley Henry, director of the Application and Management Division at NEPA, told The Gleaner that the licence to operate the Shan Shy beach was last renewed in 2001." Is it the norm for the regulator to put us at risk by allowing beach operators to be in breach like this for 10 years? If so, then in what other areas are they similarly lax?
NEPA seeking beach compliance - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 24, 2012

Farmer Greg's brother, friend acquitted of murder

Why does it seem as if we are unable to present convincing cases to juries when horrible things like this happen? Are we to believe that these men are innocent? It appears to me that we just failed to put together a solid case. Why would we say 2 guns were used if our own expert says as many as 5 guns were used? It just makes no sense. Was there no possibility of turning one defendant against the other? Are we still stuck in the past where we don't do deals in murder cases? Our prosecutors must do much, much better. This is utterly unacceptable!
Farmer Greg's brother, friend acquitted of murder

Santorum opens lead over Romney

This seesaw race tothe Republican Party nomination is making me dizzy! I mean, I know none of them will beat Obama unless he stuffs both feet into his mouth but Santorum eight points ahead? Republican voters seem to be hopelessly divided this time! Go Democrats!
Santorum opens lead over Romney

Jamaica Editorial Cartoons

SAAAAAAD! Need I say more?
Jamaica Editorial Cartoons

Lab-grown hamburger due to be served up this year ... for $330,000

I don't think I'd want to eat this. This stuff reminds me of GM foods. What's the longterm risk to our health, our DNA & our evolution? Everything on this planet is connected. If we separate ourselves from the food chain, what will happen to us? Also, this could lead to too much power over our food supply being put into corporate, patented hands. There's too much adding & subtracting going on in the food sector already. I think I'll just go organic from now on to be safe!
Lab-grown hamburger due to be served up this year ... for $330,000

Governments and their relationship with sports - Sports - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 19, 2012

Impeccable, impartial piece Mr Becca! I've felt increasingly uncomfortable with the "world government" attitude of international sporting bodies. They sometimes preclude sportsmen from seeking redress in national courts. They punish governments that "interfere" in national sporting associations but they all expect these groups to be funded at least partially by governments. They are often unfair & unjust in their actions & decisions. Transparency disappears in their "backroom" dealings. Even worse, there is no effective oversight for these international bodies & their record in self policing is a disgrace! FIFA, WICB, ICC, IOC, IAAF....etc they all seem to be the same. If it were not for the governments, prosecutors & police in India, Europe & the USA, nothing serious would have been done about even the common corruption allegations in cricket, athletics & football. We need better tools to manage these organisations & the sooner the better.
Governments and their relationship with sports - Sports - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 19, 2012

Miller, Brown spin Jamaica to impressive win - Sports - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 19, 2012

It's obvious that we're the best in the region at this form of the game.Why then, has our best player been persecuted by the WICB?
Miller, Brown spin Jamaica to impressive win - Sports - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 19, 2012

Are market forces more powerful than regulators? - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 19, 2012

Businesses will look for ways around rules to make an extra dollar. We must shop around. We must also push politicians to foster more competition to prevent the players in our small market from acting like a cartel. These seem to be the solutions to these problems. What do you think?
Are market forces more powerful than regulators? - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 19, 2012

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

.......and Horace Burrell not far behind!!

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

More visitors, but worry over APD remains

In our case , here in Jamaica, the new minister has been going around the country glad-handing & scheming to bring all the old operatives back to the tourist board. Considering the tough times around the world, shouldn't he be doing what the former minister did? Shouldn't he be travelling the world, pushing hard for people to choose Jamaica in this rough winter for their vacations?

More visitors, but worry over APD remains

Lloyd leaves WICB over IMC involvement

What the hell is happening with cricket in Guyana?

I'm not clear on what's at the root of the conflict.

Is it the same sort of problem with the WICB?

Somebody tell me please!

Lloyd leaves WICB over IMC involvement

The day I met 'Motty' Perkins

Read this.

The day I met 'Motty' Perkins

VIDEO: Reflections on Wilmot ‘Motty’ Perkins - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Words cannot express my feeling of loss.....

VIDEO: Reflections on Wilmot ‘Motty’ Perkins - News - Latest News - Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

Oh Dear!!

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

Chang says political cronyism behind landfill fire

Everything the JLP faced upon assuming the role of government in '07, seems to be besetting the PNP. Odd isn't it? I wonder if its their karma? Sometimes if you wish bad luck for others, it comes around to bite you in the you know where!

Chang says political cronyism behind landfill fire

'My whole life ... shall be devoted to your service'

I wish that more of our leaders could be more like this lady, Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

'My whole life ... shall be devoted to your service'

'Don't prescribe the medicine in one dose'

I agree with the idea except that we shouldn't give these guys any wiggle room to postpone or draw out these reforms. It's tough but overdue.
If we delay, every step that's supposed to take a year will take five & we will lose any benefits or advantages the reforms could bring.
The world will not wait on us. I say we've waited long enough & must take ALL of this medicine now, today!
'Don't prescribe the medicine in one dose'

US to give Jamaica non-lethal weapons for cops

Can we get more than just cuffs & pepper spray?
Been there, done that!
Isn't there new technology available? I've seen foam that traps & immobilizes people without burning their eyes & possibly putting their health at risk through breathing problems.
US to give Jamaica non-lethal weapons for cops

Bruce, Falconer pay tribute to 'Mutty'

My deepest condolences to his family & friends.
His death brings tears to my eyes.
Bruce, Falconer pay tribute to 'Mutty'

Morrison new JTB chairman - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 10, 2012

Come on now!!!
After all this time, the best we can do is remove the performers & give the job back to our old friend?
Morrison new JTB chairman - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 10, 2012

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

More stolen parts?
Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

UDC powers curtailed - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 10, 2012

Why didn't NEPA sort this out BEFORE the project started?
Government red tape will be the end of us. Hurry up & cut it!
UDC powers curtailed - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | February 10, 2012

Massive recruitment of cane cutters underway at Everglades Farms

Now you see what Tufton & Hill & the JLP government did?
Sugar estates competing for cane cutters!
More income for the cutters & their families!
One BIG step forward Jamaica!
Pity we may have to wait until the JLP returns to power to take a few more steps like this!
Massive recruitment of cane cutters underway at Everglades Farms

MAN DOWN!

At least he's alive right?
MAN DOWN!

XS ENERGY WITHOUT THE SUGAR

Try this now!!!

Turmeric and ginger production to be expanded

This is one of the things we need to push hard on. Farmers must be helped & pushed in this direction.
If they keep planting the same things & complaining about a lack of government support to find markets,
then the recovery in our agriculture will stall. It will in fact start declining again.
Turmeric and ginger production to be expanded<br />

Jamaica Editorial Cartoons

Oh Dear!!!
Jamaica Editorial Cartoons

Stewart-McConnell gives birth to Orijin - Food - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | February 2, 2012

Flanker has a reputation so they are brave & smart. Success friends!!
Stewart-McConnell gives birth to Orijin - Food - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | February 2, 2012

MUFFIN TOP: Little Café with the Big Tastes - Food - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | February 2, 2012

Location + opportunity + funding = entrepreneurship!!
MUFFIN TOP: Little Café with the Big Tastes - Food - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | February 2, 2012

EDITORIAL - The wits and the Portmore council - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | February 6, 2012

If the Gleaner has seen through the trick, maybe you should back off now guys.
The voters in Portmore will not forget the mosquitoes you let them suffer through when the election comes.
Don't even bother wasting that 3 million dollars for fogging.
Release the 14 milllion dollars for drain cleaning now!
EDITORIAL - The wits and the Portmore council - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | February 6, 2012

After the retreat let's see the JEEP... and Brown Burke's documents - News - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | February 6, 2012

Let's see what happens!
After the retreat let's see the JEEP... and Brown Burke's documents - News - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | February 6, 2012

Follow our agricultural blueprint - In Focus - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 5, 2012

It's critical that we proceed on the basis of facts.
Senator Tufton must be commended for putting them out there.
I wouldn't want anybody to start claiming that nothing was done over the last 4 years without being contradicted.
Jamaica will be an efficient player in the sugar industry & benefit from more value added products from that industry because of the previous gov't.
Other reforms have been queued up & must be completed. Bowing to those who benefit from the status quo in this sector is not an option.

Follow our agricultural blueprint - In Focus - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | February 5, 2012

Shocked principal investigates ... STUDENTS 'MARRY' AT SCHOOL - News - Jamaica Star - February 3, 2012

Even in the US I don't think this would be ok. Kissing is allowed among kids in the US but not encouraged at school. A wedding ceremony at school must surely be a no no.
Shocked principal investigates ... STUDENTS 'MARRY' AT SCHOOL - News - Jamaica Star - February 3, 2012

The Caribbean: Not so gay

My prayer, is that we be allowed to evolve just as the Europeans, North Americans, New Zealanders & Australians have.

Our views on open homosexuality are our cultural preferences. They aren't holding us back. Deal with HIV/AIDS,

punish violent acts against homosexuals but our views must be allowed to change as our societies change.

Nobody forced these changes on our more economically developed neighbours so they must not force them on us.

The Caribbean: Not so gay

Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

Ahhhh Bwoy!!
Jamaica Gleaner - Cartoons

'I will fight'

Damn right!!
'I will fight'

EDITORIAL - AJ's sexist faux pas - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | February 2, 2012

OH DEAR!!
EDITORIAL - AJ's sexist faux pas - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | February 2, 2012

'Vindictive' Government - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Wednesday | February 1, 2012

WITCH HUNT!!!
'Vindictive' Government - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Wednesday | February 1, 2012