Commentary

It cannot be a strain on anyone’s imagination to discern that maladjusted children without schooling are at a greater risk of becoming adult criminals, especially if they are already on a pathway to deviance. Which is essentially what Dr Maurice...

Let us return to the question of what standard of living, underpinned by what values, we aspire for all Jamaicans. After all, we are about to spend almost a trillion dollars on ourselves, while facing uncalculated risks due to unreformed, weak and...

Access to safe, nutritious food is a basic human right; food plays a critical role in disease prevention and control. Food safety refers to handling, preparation and storage of food in ways to prevent food-borne illnesses caused by eating...

On the 19th day of February the troops and tanks finally crossed to the other side of the border. The head of the invaded state knew it was going to happen. He begged the international community to act; but the world did little to stop it....

The raging debates on social media about the invasion of Ukraine are as intense as the battles currently being fought in the former Soviet state. Russian aggression is either condemned or justified based on its right to defend its own sovereignty,...

In this edition of Reparation Conversations, P.J. Patterson, statesman-in-residence and director of the P. J. Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The UWI, presents the case for the posthumous exoneration of Rt. Excellent Marcus...

“Our people are watching and taking note,” exclaimed Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley to world leaders at the United Nations’ climate summit, COP26, in Glasgow. Her speech on the opening day of the two-week event set the stage for several rounds...

You could see it coming. Only 59 per cent of registered voters turned out in 1944; the optimism at Independence brought out 73 per cent in 1962. Things were not all that great for the majority, and the socialist promise of “Better mus’ come”...

Having survived the vicissitudes of business for a long time, this newspaper can attest that doing so for a hundred years in Jamaica is no easy or small feat. This is Gleaner’s 188th year. Over our long existence we have observed, and...

COMING ON the heels of Professor Orlando Patterson’s recent report on the state of education in Jamaica, a joint select committee has been appointed to consider and report on The Jamaica Teaching Council Act, 2022. That committee has since invited...

The United States has a phobia of communism originating in the early 1900s through McCarthyism, J. Edgar Hoover and beyond the World War II (WW2) eras. In my opinion, this is part of what gave rise to the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty...

Chicken is the world’s favourite meat, after pork. Since the 1940s, it has become the favoured meat in the USA. It is also a favourite in the Caribbean, especially in more recent years, with the increasing price of other meats, such as pork, beef...