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Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Almost everyone of us who grew up in the Caribbean in the late 1940s and early '50s, especially in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, was exposed to rum from an early age, if not as medicine ("It good for the cold", "It will kill the germs, and...

Published:Thursday | July 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

With the ongoing discussions about the Bible, following Dr Michael Abrahams' July 2 article 'Why the Bible is a dangerous book?', we should not let off the hook God, the Bible's main character. If God does not exist, the Bible should be relegated to...

Published:Thursday | July 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Even if Carolyn Warren wasn't the subject of the chairman's intervention, it would still be of profound public relevance, highlighting, as it does, the problems of governance at state agencies, including often a blurring of lines of demarcation...

Published:Thursday | July 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Civil-society advocate Carol Narcisse began her first intervention at last Wednesday's packed town hall meeting on the 'redevelopment' of National Heroes Park by congratulating the RJRGLEANER Communications Group for staging the event, as it really...

Published:Thursday | July 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Peter Espeut begins the statement of his position (Gleaner, June 15, 2018, 'Genuine debate about abortion') with the assertion: "The foetus in the womb of the mother has 46 chromosomes and, therefore, is a human being." He regards this as a...

Published:Wednesday | July 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Our politicians have been engaged in an unrelenting cass-cass across party lines from time immemorial. Their myopic and oftentimes vitriolic behaviour has occasionally served the public good - as in unearthing scandalous activities on the other side...

Published:Wednesday | July 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

All of last week, the major argument at street level was what many perceived as the impending release of their hero, Vybz Kartel, due to what they saw as new information unearthed during Kartel's appeal case.'Him a come a road fi Christmas', was one...

Published:Wednesday | July 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

They need not have the juicy morsels such as have been revealed about Petrojam at the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PACC), for chairmen of parliamentary committees to fashion them into bruising rings for governments.So, we...

Published:Wednesday | July 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

As of next week, the minimum wage for security guards will be increased to $9,700 per week. Furthermore, the 'national' minimum wage will increase to $7,000. Are these liveable and reasonable wages for a single father with two children? If your...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

We don't know as yet the specifics of the economic and cultural cooperation agreements signed between Jamaica and Namibia during this week's visit by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to the southern African country, but hopefully it is not another of...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In 2014, I spent some time working as a foreign-language instructor in the very quaint and slow-paced prefecture of Songyuan, China. A Chinese teacher who resided near the apartment where I stayed, quickly befriended me and invited me into her home...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

From Drake to Justin Bieber, it seems a favourite pastime of pop stars is to dabble in Jamaican music. But outside of Bob Marley and stints on the Billboard charts from artistes like Sean Paul, Jamaicans themselves have yet to receive the...

Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Delroy Chuck, the justice minister, couldn't be accused of being anything but empathetic with anyone who has cause to complain about the delays in Jamaica's court system, with its backlog of up to half a million cases.Indeed, he has lamented with...

Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

For the record, I was the board chairman of the Rural Electrification Programme (REP) between 2012 and 2016. During the 2015-16 financial year, the REP broadened its mandate and changed its name to National Energy Solutions Limited (NESol).As I...

Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

This newspaper's editorial of July 18, 2018, dealing with the issue of Carolyn Warren and her decision to withhold information about her criminal conviction to the principals at National Energy Solutions Limited (NESoL), couldn't have been more...

Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Me seh fi stop spread propaganda pon di dread Me seh fi stop spread propaganda pon di dread...

Published:Sunday | July 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Adam Stewart clearly has a point that the Government should robustly encourage foreign hotel investors to purchase the goods consumed in their properties from domestic producers. For, according to Mr Stewart, as the deputy chairman of the hotel...

Published:Sunday | July 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

What is clear is that there is not much more to the Government's crime plan than zones of special operations (ZOSO) and semi-permanent states of emergency (SOE).Last Tuesday, the House of Representatives debated the extension of the St James SOE,...

Published:Sunday | July 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

About two months ago, I happened to see a very bright sign bearing an image of His Worship, the mayor of Kingston and St Andrew, along with the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation logo. It read, "His Worship the Mayor, Senator and...

Published:Thursday | July 19, 2018 | 12:00 AM

At their Montego Bay summit this month, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, without calling names, lamented the global trade war initiated by Donald Trump, America's capricious president, and how destabilising such fights can be to developing...

Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The energy ministry's woes keep coming, and by my reckoning, it's past the nine-day mark that traditionally tolls the Jamaican public's exhaustion with a commonplace story. This one has legs!Because just when the think the ex-chairman of Petrojam...

Published:Thursday | July 19, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It look like seh Seaga never learn dis ya memory gem eena primary school: 'Self-praise is no recommendation.' Last month, Seaga gi one long, long testimony weh Observer publish: "Where are the controversies in my career, Mr...

Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It is bad enough when ordinary citizens become criminals. Nothing is worse than one who is sworn to uphold the law becoming a crook and violating every single thing that he or she has sworn to. Every single member of the House of Babylon who brings...

Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The opinion piece headlined 'Pharmacy sector in need of medicine' (Sunday Gleaner, July 15, 2018) contains a number of inaccuracies relating to Government's programmes to ensure access to healthcare for those least able to afford it.The Ministry of...

Published:Thursday | July 19, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In the span of his distinguished career, iconic journalist Rudyard Kipling wrote numerous literary classics, including a masterpiece titled 'The Press', which Jamaica's political surrogates should learn well and not forget.They who live the lie that...

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