Kingston News

Sunday December 6, 2009 Claude Clarke, Contributor With the public's attention now drawn to Jamaica's unique economic experience of having an economic meltdown in the midst of an unprecedented global economic expansion during the 1990s, much name-calling, scapegoating and buck-passing...

Small Island opened with an illusion that we knew – within just three or four words – was doomed to be shattered. "Put the word 'mother' in front of 'country'," said a male voice, "and you think of somewhere safe,...

The countervailing coalition, acting decisively and courageously, can help and slay the monster but we don't have a lot of time," he says. Coalition composition The composition of the coalition would include professionals in the criminal justice system such as...

MacMillan, a retired soldier, former commissioner of police and senator who had a short stint as national security minister, says the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have put party ahead of the country. In a...

In this climate, life can be swiftly taken by disease or dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it. The...