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When I was very young I was extremely idealistic, only seeing black and white. As the years rolled by, with the onset of maturity and a plethora of experiences, I began to realize that there are also shades of grey in mankind’s existence, and that the perception of black as evil and white as pure […]

IT IS A sad day for any nation when its citizens degenerate to the place of engineering the destruction of facilities which provide vital and critical services to its people. The recent conflagration at the Ministry of Health reveals a horrifying verity about the nature of the minds of people who live amongst us. As

I WAS FOCUSED on current political developments in St Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago when I learnt of the very unflattering report by the World Bank on the economic problems of Jamaica that, as the ‘Observer’ reported last Sunday, fingered ‘functional illiteracy’ as a major cause of the country’s very slow growth rate.

TONY BLAIR (or ‘The Winston Churchill of our Times’, as he was known in the Bush White House) is not going to be the first president of the European Union. And Iceland isn’t going to join the EU either. This sort of story only gets traction in the summer holidays, when all the movers and

THE intention of this week’s article was scheduled to focus on the challenges and trials of engaging in a public service in a visible way; something I have become intimately acquainted with over the past year. But in the wee hours of Friday morning, that all changed. Sadly, I didn’t get the message about the

When I was very young I was extremely idealistic, only seeing black and white. As the years rolled by, with the onset of maturity and a plethora of experiences, I began to realize that there are also shades of grey in mankind’s existence, and that the perception of black as evil and white as pure

I WAS FOCUSED on current political developments in St Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago when I learnt of the very unflattering report by the World Bank on the economic problems of Jamaica that, as the ‘Observer’ reported last Sunday, fingered ‘functional illiteracy’ as a major cause of the country’s very slow growth rate.

Friday Musings THE `America’s got talent’ TV show that’s broadcast here is one of my favourites and it’s a pity that local TV stations have not yet come up with a local version. I like watching it because it’s usually a blend of really good emerging and potential talent and outrageous comedy. Judging from those

STANDARDS CORNER Small businesses have very different reasons for adopting a quality management system than do medium and large businesses. Certainly, a small business, like medium and large businesses, may be required by a customer or regulatory authority to be certified to the ISO 9001:2000 standard, but it is rare in most jurisdictions.

Paradora’s Box “Slo’ fiah, mo’ fiah” seems to be on its way back. The PNC’s track record of violence to force an administration not their own on its knees seems to be re-surfacing. `The spurious, scurrilous claims on which the PNC leader (a misnomer, if ever I heard one) has based his threats of once