Five days af­ter Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has yet to in­di­cate whether she will ac­cept it, while the Gov­ern­ment re­mains silent on how it will re­spond if John-Bates or Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi ap­pear in the Up­per House, start­ing to­day.

For­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Colm Im­bert has at­trib­uted Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd’s (RBL) re­cent de­ci­sion to in­crease bank­ing fees to ac­tions tak­en by the bank’s new­ly-ap­point­ed board, most of whom were se­lect­ed by the cur­rent Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Sabi­na Park, the hal­lowed turf of West In­di­an crick­et, has re­ceived a ma­jor tech­no­log­i­cal up­grade.

A shared vi­sion first sparked on an in­ter­na­tion­al stage came to life be­fore a lo­cal au­di­ence when Cari­Carib Dance and Danse4Nia/Phoenix Danse pre­sent­ed Col­lab­o­ra­tion at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, on April 26.

Sev­er­al years ago, a re­spect­ed Caribbean in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert told me in pri­vate con­ver­sa­tion that the no­tion of “na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty” was be­com­ing an out­dat­ed con­cept.