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Published:Tuesday | March 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Either Prime Minister Andrew Holness has been woefully inattentive on the INDECOM issue or is afraid to commit the authority of his office on one side or the other, waiting to determine which way the political winds are blowing. That’s not a...

Published:Monday | March 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

I am tired, tired, bored to turn-off by the tit-for-tat talk between the Labour Party and the People's National Party, the "I did this where you didn't", "You failed where I succeeded", the tiresome going back over the last 50 years.Audley Shaw did...

Published:Monday | March 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMGordon Robinson

When I used to practise full-time lawyering as a senior partner in one of Jamaica's largest (not-often-most-successful) and best law firms, what used to irk me most about that particular rat race was the bonus entitlement culture.For about a decade...

Published:Monday | March 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

I gave it a chance. An entire seven months without throwing cold water on it. I wanted it to work. I still desperately want it to work.But I must be honest: The zones of special operations (ZOSOs), for me, is still just so-so. We've dished out...

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

My brothers, we have a lot of work to do. Many women are dissatisfied. Research has discovered that lesbians appear to be more satisfied with their sex lives than heterosexual women, suggesting that we need to...

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

We appreciate the sentiment behind the Government's intention, as announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness last week, to amend the Firearms Act to expand the range of offences and, hopefully, deter firearm offences. There is little doubt that the...

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

I'm elated to learn that Mr Daryl Vaz intends to initiate a campaign nicknamed ZOSO (zone of special operations) for the environment and that he's going to start with the illegal burning of toxic material at the Riverton landfill. He will have the...

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

After the now-concluded Budget Debate, I am wondering what will be in the minds of those who will commence the Vale Royal Talks next month.Will we continue the toxic charade which dominated Gordon House over the past two weeks, or can we put all...

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMCarolyn Cooper

State Minister of Finance Ruddy Spencer put himself into a big ants nest last Sunday. No mind English! ‘Ants’ has to be plural. One ant is not a nest. In his now-infamous remarks at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) meeting in Bellefield,...

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The Court of Appeal's long-awaited decision - having reserved judgment on June 2, 2016 following four days of arguments - has settled an interesting issue in favour of police officers, the appellants, represented by Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, QC....

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

If we put all the pyrotechnics involved in the Budget Debate to one side, there's a very positive development to be discerned for the country in all the presentations so far. Who knew we would live to see the day where both political parties are...

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Nearly two decades ago, the Peruvian economist, Hernando De Soto, turned the world on to the fact that the poor in the world's poor countries weren't necessarily poor. At least not in the way they are generally portrayed. The greater poverty they...

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In a letter to the editor in the March 23, 2018, edition of The Gleaner, the writer bemoaned the state of the gully along Mannings Hill Road. The writer ended by calling on the MP, local government and environmental groups to address the gully. But...

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Everywhere you turn these days, someone is encouraging our young people to have a positive relationship with money because they have the tools at their disposal to create wealth. One can only imagine how enthralled many young people are by these...

Published:Thursday | March 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

I have always considered myself 'well-trained'. People who came into contact with me in the early days constantly complimented my mother and my teachers on the frequency and quality of my "good mornings" and "thank yous" and they gladly took the...

Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

With mounting chaos on the capital's busiest commercial corridors, we feel compelled to return to a topic we have commented on previously.We acknowledge that peak-hour delays are to be expected in any major city. However, extreme congestion and...

Published:Thursday | March 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The recent debate on bank fees exposes the shaky foundation on which so-called free-market economics is based. Economist Dr Damien King (who defines 'bank fees' and 'interest rates' as prices for the services which banks offer) wrote on the social...

Published:Thursday | March 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

We, as is the case with teachers, and the trade union movement, generally, welcome the Government's clarification that a five per cent retroactive payment would be made to teachers this month without prejudice to ongoing wage negotiations.The...

Published:Thursday | March 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

There are always some casualties when a new form of transportation comes along. In 1830, at the official opening of the world's first railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a well-known British politician, William Huskisson, was struck and...

Published:Wednesday | March 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In a body where serious questions such as how a country conducts its elections are decided, we wouldn't be surprised if the debates are robust, and, sometimes, even loud and emotive. Moreover, Orrett Fisher, until lately director of elections, may...

Published:Wednesday | March 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In 2003 when the People's National Party's (PNP) Omar Davies told his partisan constituents, in celebrating the election win, that leading up to the 2002 elections, the PNP administration would be foolish to curtail spending, so they had to 'run wid...

Published:Wednesday | March 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In a recent article by Nadine Wilson-Harris warning women about the dangers they face from men posing as taxi drivers (The Gleaner: February 18, 2018), it was reported that "more than 50 females have been raped and robbed over the last two years" by...

Published:Wednesday | March 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness's human resources problems were highlighted in the appointment of justice Brian Sykes first as acting chief Justice and then, about a month later, as chief justice. According to the prime minister, the appointment...

Published:Tuesday | March 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In an online search last Friday, March 16, I came upon an article announcing that significant oil and gas deposits had been found offshore Grenada.Prior to that, it was reported that major oil and gas deposits (seven, so far) had been found in...

Published:Tuesday | March 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica has long faced, in different guises, the same difficult choice. In 1977 and 1980, it was democratic socialism vs capitalism. At the time of the 2016 election, it was framed in terms of the failure to get growth in the economy. Just last year...

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