REVISED, Time for reality check
The first supplementary estimates for the fiscal year 2009-2010 were tabled on August 22. They reflect an increase in expenditure of some $6 billion. This has elicited reactions of surprise from many quarters.

The origins of Christianity & Islam
The following is a re-print of an article published in January 2007, in the Sunday Gleaner. It is republished as a contribution to widen the debate on the veracity of the God of Christianity.

The problem of evil
Approximately 75 million killed in the two world wars. Six million Jews slaughtered in Nazi Germany. One million brutally killed in Pol Pot's Cambodia. multiple hundreds of thousands slain horrifically in the Rwanda Massacre. Where was the all-powerful, all-loving God in all of this?

Golden opportunity for transformational leadership
Bruce Golding has come with a great deal of baggage, ranging from his rumoured weak performance at Mona to being the only Jamaican politician to have represented two garrison constituencies, one of which he built for himself in Central St Catherine.

Crisis and blame
Portia Simpson Miller, the president of the People's National Party (PNP), accused the Government of failing to take its share of responsibility for the country's economic crisis at the party's annual conference last Sunday.

Keeping women in their places
In 1986, Belensky et al published a well-written and carefully researched book entitled Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind.