The Ball Is In The Unions’ Court
The past few weeks saw the island being rocked by industrial disputes. In one week we saw National Water Commission (NWC) workers go on strike, air traffic controllers strike, civil servants …
Oh, just because they can! – The idea of “Might is Right”
There was a time when corporal punishment was part and parcel of our Jamaican school system. It was, perhaps, a holdover from the old British colonial era. It was often abused …
Justice for all or justice for none
Recently the Jamaican Parliament has been looking over a revised set of traffic laws. This was done due in no small part to the embarrassing fact that every few years the …
If we must privatise…
Privatisation is a phrase which is not alien to Jamaicans, a phrase which seems to constantly sit on the tongues of our elected officials, especially ministers. It is an activity which …