Cerebrovascular accidents, what are more commonly referred to as strokes, or brain attacks, kill Jamaicans at a higher rate than violence, even though Jamaican has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The annual number of deaths from...
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Abuse and other cases of violence suffer from reporters’ bias, because the failure to reveal such acts might simply mean that there is less visibility, it is less detectable, the victims are less empowered or more fearful. Similarly, an increase in...
Not until you have lost weight and regained, will you truly appreciate of what I speak. For persons who have been on crash diets, proper nutritional programmes, or even had weight loss surgery done, they will realise at some point in time that...
The latest Don Anderson opinion poll for the RJRGLEANER, published by this newspaper last week, reaffirmed that approximately six in 10 Jamaicans are firmly on the side of ditching Queen Elizabeth as their head of state and of the island becoming...
It was 12 years ago that the Jamaican Cabinet, under the leadership of Portia Simpson Miller, decided that August 17 be commemorated as Marcus Garvey Day, to recognise the birth of one of the most influential Jamaicans who ever walked this Earth....
Haiti has never been far from wide-scale human suffering, grave political instability, and grim economic underdevelopment. But its circumstances today are worse than they have been before. The country has become a battleground for rival criminal...
The first move I made was on a long-haired girl who sat in front of me in class. I was so enamoured that I expressed my love by dipping her long black hair into the inkwell. Instead of hugging me, she was blue ‘vex’. The teacher saw red and gave me...
The slump in people’s confidence in the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) was predictable and ought to concern policymakers on several fronts, not least of which is that developments point to deepening stresses on one of the few remaining bastions of...
It is likely that within the past week, at least one of Jamaica’s many murderers was able to dodge the police, and will get the chance to claim another life, simply because someone somewhere who knows something doesn’t want to talk. It is likely...
It would not be efficient for every different portfolio (like labour and youth) to be regulated in a stand-alone ministry with its own minister and parliamentary secretary; the Cabinet would be huge! The Jamaican Constitution allows the prime...
Neither the security minister, Horace Chang, nor the police chief, Antony Anderson, will be happy with the results of last week’s opinion survey showing devastatingly low levels of confidence in their leadership, and more broadly, in the...
‘Electricity bills to go up’ …” or ‘Brace for high electricity bills …’ are among a few trending headlines, especially amid the Russia-Ukraine war, which, according to the World Bank, is on the path of causing the biggest price/commodity shock in...
The violence now ravaging Jamaica has earned for the island the unenviable reputation of being the world’s second most dangerous country, with a murder rate of 43.85 per 100,000 people. El Salvador has the highest, at 52.02 per 100,000 people. (...
Connie Francis deserves the congratulations and respect of all Jamaicans. She has them unreservedly from this newspaper. Which is why we hope that Ms Francis is not being pressured by Netball Jamaica to stay on as head coach of the national netball...
The remark of Montego Bay’s Deputy Mayor Richard Vernon, “Only cowards run away to go to America because they are seeking out opportunity” smacks of ignorance. How could a politician in Jamaica make such an ill-informed, public statement?...
This is a controversial issue, I know, and raises questions about the measurement of development. My article last week on Jamaica’s achievements after 60 years of Independence led me to do a comparison between statistics for the Jamaican economy in...
There’s no keeping the Old Ball and Chain quiet. The bad news is, Old BC believes in the superior practical intellect (which she calls “common sense”) of women over men, who she sees as lumps of clay that God put women on Earth to mould into...
Seymour Panton, the former president of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, was a jurisprudentially sound and respected judge, who continues to do decent work as chairman of the Integrity Commission (IC). His feisty interventions on public matters are...
Jamaica’s Customs Brokers gathering in Kingston for their 56th Annual General Meeting in July, amid a persistent global supply chain crisis in a COVID-19 pandemic that threatened to shut down businesses, have been switched on for some time to the...
One of the highest rated high schools in Jamaica is reporting a turnover of one-fifth of its academic staff this September, which begs the question, how serious are we about quality education? Another strong rural school is losing one-quarter of...
Several years ago, I frequently drove the Junction Road to get to Oracabessa. It had deteriorated from the earlier days when I used to go for weekend drives. The sharp and dangerous curves remained, rocks still jutted out from one side, and...
While the education ministry has not commented on the matter, we take at face value the fear of some principals that classrooms will be thrown into chaos at the start of the new school year in September because of a summer exodus of teachers for...
On Monday, August 1, as Jamaica marked the Emancipation event, The Gleaner reported that, when an enquiry was made of Justice Minister Delroy Chuck as to his solution to the intolerable dilemma that has long plagued the apex of our judicial system...
There are tinges of the Manatt affair, which will titillate people who like intrigue, in the mystery of who hired, and paid the bill for, the high-powered American public relations firm that helped Kamina Johnson Smith in her ultimately failed bid...
