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Published:Friday | November 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Even in the worst of times, of which Zimbabwe has had its fair share of late, it's hard not to feel hopeful during jacaranda season. As the warming sun of the southern spring draws the brilliant flaming colours into the leaves, just walking along...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

On November 22, The Gleaner published an article by Mark Titus with this unsurprising headline: 'Chinese claim locals unwilling to cut cane at Frome Estate'. George, according to the report, you made the following statement, clearly expressing your...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Like many people around the world, this newspaper is glad to see the back of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. He should have gone a long time ago.Yet, we do feel joy in his departure, or the manner of fall, of which the dramatic events of the past...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

"Madam, your conduct is reprehensible." This was said many, many years ago in a noisy bar in the city one evening by a clearly inebriated elderly gentleman who was thoroughly annoyed at the behaviour of a woman who was hurling obscenities faster and...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Few issues in Jamaica have sparked greater angst among the population than poor roads. It is the subject of protests and mass irritation for frustrated citizens incommunities across the island where cracks and craters have been developing in the...

Published:Friday | November 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Contract employment in the public sector is temporary employment and represents an involuntary choice by workers vs permanent employment.Fixed-term contracts (FTC) represent a lower level of protection for...

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Some of the uncertainties surrounding trade relations between the Caribbean and post-Brexit Britain have been eased, but Jamaica and her regional partners must not be lured into complacency by which the United Kingdom's (UK) assurance that it will...

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

I was pleased to have been invited to attend Jamaica's House of Representatives last Tuesday to hear Prime Minister Andrew Holness (who is also Minister of the Environment) announce the boundaries for the proposed Cockpit Country Protected Area....

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMOmar Oliphant

The enticement to refer to educational stakeholders as 'failing schools', 'leggo beasts', 'scammers' or 'violent' is seemingly becoming more frequent in some circles and, truthfully, its impact is even more demoralising than imagined. It is...

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Schoolboy football has now reached the business end. The Walker Cup and the Ben Francis winners have both been settled, and by tomorrow we will know who will win the Flow Super Cup. Both the Manning and DaCosta Cup finalists have been decided....

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The video of 13-year-old Davion Johnson of Grange Hill in Westmoreland, somewhat calmly introducing us to his impending suicide, is terribly haunting."Onnu probably know by now sey mi dead," is part of the opening words. "Mi tek words to heart," he...

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

In a newspaper advertisement, the National Identification System (NIDS) facts was stated as 'No DNA; No Bank Account Information; No Fraud; No penalty for three years; No exclusion from health and other essential services'. The advertisement then...

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Put another way, we want instant gratification - to go the shortcut route and get to heaven without working for it. In the same way, we want peace, prosperity and order in our society, but we...

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

While this newspaper endorses the Government's call for restraint in the wage demands of public-sector workers, it is not our sense that the Holness administration has approached the current salary negotiations with sufficient transparency and the...

Published:Tuesday | November 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM

There are a handful of people among them Trinidad and Tobago's Ken Gordon, Jamaica's Oliver Clarke and Harold Hoyte of Barbados whose contributions to the business end of media in the English-speaking Caribbean are probably equal to his.None would...

Published:Tuesday | November 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM

How to "make life in and through violence" in Jamaica is the problem an exhibition at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia ponders. Titled 'Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston', the exhibition is constructed around a film called Four Days in May...

Published:Monday | November 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM

If ever you stand in line at the ABM in Duhaney Park, you are sure to meet the most ambitious woman in history. Her petite frame is always clean, sometimes even fashionable. Her slippers often complement the colour of her blouse, and her hair is...

Published:Monday | November 20, 2017 | 12:00 AM

We are forced to again commend to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, and to governments generally, our old mantra: What is worse than the formulation of bad or flaw policies is to actually implement them...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Recently, I had occasion to visit the Jamaican High Commission in a major metropolitan city in 'farrin'. I knew I was in the right place when I noticed the giant Jamaican flag waving proudly outside the fancy building with the steep staircase and an...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Already established as the greatest Jamaican trainer to saddle a thoroughbred, Wayne Anthony DaCosta became a living legend on November 11 by winning the only Grade 1 race that eluded him over the years, namely, the Burger King Superstakes.On a warm...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Despite what has been written about him by the Western media over the last 20 years, Robert Mugabe, or Comrade Bob, remains a man I admire. And though he lost his way years ago from the moment he launched an offensive against the white of his people...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2017 | 12:00 AM

For all nationalists, it should be profoundly embarrassing that it has taken the bosses of the International Monetary Fund to convince us of the home truths about public-sector reform.First, it was the under-reported counsel of the deputy director,...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2017 | 12:00 AM

When a youngster grows up under-privileged, sexually, physically, and psychologically abused, and feeling abandoned/ ignored/unloved by mainstream (read privileged) society, there is a real danger that he/she will become dysfunctional and do...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The statement by Lord Tariq Ahmad in The Gleaner of November 13, 2017 calls for a response when it is, as usual, telling us what is better for us rather than to peer back into history. Such a pity he was here only on a whistle stop and his opinion...

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