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Bolt family loss

Sprint legend’s dad Wellesley passes

April 1 12:20 AM

Bolt family loss

News

No Penn Relays would be sad, says KC principal

BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com

April 1 12:18 AM

No Penn Relays would be sad, says KC principal

Entertainment, ...

Party ‘tun up’ at Mello Vibes

BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

April 1 12:16 AM

Party ‘tun up’ at Mello Vibes

boxing, ...

A TAP OF THE GLOVES

World Boxing president pays tribute to Jamaica for role in sport’s Olympic status retention

BY RACHID PARCHMENT Digital sports coordinator parchmentr@jamaicaobserver.com

April 1 12:14 AM

A TAP OF THE GLOVES

Columns

Promises, promises

R INIYAN ILANGO

November 25, 2009

This year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting takes place in the 60th anniversary year of the Commonwealth. For the past six decades, notably s...

Columns

SS Jamaica adrift

MARK WIGNALL

November 25, 2009

I awoke this morning with an emptiness inside me that was, I believe, representative of the general mood of the population. Apart from my usual stock ...

Columns

One day at a time

with Celta Kirkland

November 24, 2009

MATTHEW 6: 34 and PSALMS 11:24: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. ...

Columns

The crazy logic of airport shopping

FRANKLIN W KNIGHT

November 24, 2009

Anyone travelling by air has probably observed the universal proliferation of airport shopping centres. Airports now resemble land-based shopping mall...

Columns

The Extradition Treaty between Jamaica and the USA

CLAYTON MORGAN

November 24, 2009

As Justice Minister and Attorney General Senator Dorothy Lightbourne agonises over the request of the United States for the arrest and probable extrad...

Columns

Progress in justice

KEN CHAPLIN

November 23, 2009

That justice reform is moving ahead is good news as the justice system has many cracks that need to be mended and the public has a right to know what ...

Columns

The Tivoli model

With Betty Ann Blaine

November 23, 2009

Dear Reader, Ever since I returned home almost 30 years ago, I have had concerns about the community of Tivoli Gardens. My return to my homeland lande...

Columns

Stand and deliver

Lloyd B Smith

November 23, 2009

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has once again spoken, albeit in a most tribalist setting, at the 66th annual conference of the ruling Jamaica Labour Par...

Columns

Debate is over, time for work

Chris Burns

November 22, 2009

It has been a little over two years since the Jamaican people handed Bruce Golding and the Jamaica Labour Party the authority and power to govern, wit...

Columns

He has a ‘set’ time

with Celta Kirkland

November 22, 2009

ISAIAH 29:8: "This is what the Lord says. I will answer your prayers because I have a set time when I will help by coming to save you. I have chosen y...

Columns

Working to end this ‘dark night’

Jean Lowrie-Chin

November 22, 2009

"Haven't you heard?" asks my droll friend. "Jamaica has moved up again. in the corruption ratings!" Well, if you don't laugh, you will cry. The next d...

Columns

Vincentian Referendum: A case of too much, too late?

RICKEY SINGH

November 21, 2009

THE court battle to block a national referendum taking place this Wednesday (Nov 25) on a new constitution for St Vincent and the Grenadines may turn ...

Columns, News, Politics

When the prime minister speaks today…

CLAUDE ROBINSON

November 21, 2009

The news last week that Jamaica had slipped further down the corruption index of Transparency International attracted less attention than the downgrad...

Columns

Only dead fish go with the flow

November 21, 2009

'Tis a shame that the article which recently appeared in The Economist magazine titled "Unfixable" did not have the name of the author, or authors. Fo...

Columns

The Incompatible Marriage

Howard Gregory

November 21, 2009

Pastors who have been trained to conduct pre-marital counselling know that there are indicators of marital incompatibility, which sometimes are seen d...

Columns

Getting Food Right

James Moss-Solomon

November 21, 2009

At a time when Jamaica faces a serious survival crisis, it seems that all we want to talk about is a debate. This debate is to be firmly rooted in the...

Columns

Chinese attitudes to blacks

DIANE ABBOTT

November 21, 2009

US President Barack Obama's recent visit to China put the spotlight on Chinese attitudes to black people. Many Chinese were shocked and disbelieving t...

Columns

Commonwealth in danger: Action needed in Trinidad

Sir Ronald Sanders

November 21, 2009

As the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is about to take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago's capital, there is not much hope...

Columns

Government at snail’s pace

November 21, 2009

It has been my contention and that of many others I have spoken to that the first two years of this government's mandate has been highly unspectacular...

Columns

‘Roundup-ready’ Thinkers

John Maxwell

November 21, 2009

By the time you read this it should be official - the end of the Triangular Trade, the traffic in human flesh, sugar and consumer goods between Europe...

Columns

Fearless folks who drive on water – frozen, of course!

KEEBLE McFARLANE

November 20, 2009

Building a highway is not the simplest of tasks around. When properly designed and executed, a road can last for decades with proper maintenance. Even...