Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
Security is the foundation on which societies dating back to early civilisation were built. Today, security is regarded as the foundation on which firms, industries, and nations are built.If that foundation is faulty, the structure is liable to...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
I have spent the past week trying to digest a comment made by Major Basil Jarrett, the civil military cooperation officer of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Jarrett, one of the spokespersons for the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mount Salem...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
What drives a country into possessing weapons of mass destruction that could kill millions of people and wipe an entire city off the map in one trip? Power, prestige, or protection? How about we go with pride and the licence to bully?The United...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
France and the United Kingdom recently announced that they will ban the sales of petrol and diesel-engined cars from 2040. The Lower House of the Dutch Parliament has passed a law banning such sales from 2025. India says it will institute a similar...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
Early in his premiership, this newspaper suggested to Andrew Holness that he relaunch the Vale Royal Talks. A year and a half into his administration, he hasn't heeded our advice. He should. The circumstances warrant it.For anyone who doesn't know...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
Audley Shaw, the finance minister, believes that the interest rates Jamaican banks charge their customer are excessive. He wants them lowered and has placed the obligation solely on bankers, without, it seems, calculating how government policy...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
It was outside of the character of Dr. Peter Phillips to have said to a captive audience of People's National Party (PNP) supporters in North West St Ann on August 13, "Remember is only one separating us in the Parliament and we don't know is which...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
The corrected figures concerning murders are just not adding up and the reason for the error is not making any sense. It is claimed that the murder data was conflated with the shootings hence the errors. However, for 2017 the claim was 54 murders...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
Crime is a business operation perpetrated by persons whose ultimate objective is monetary gain. Power and influence are inevitable spin-offs, for while they are feared, respected, adored and hated by many, the frightening reality is that criminals...
You have to wonder whether Hurricane Irma was rudely intervening in the debate about the sustainability of small island developing states (SIDS) in the 21st century.With unerring aim, she slammed the most vulnerable ones in the Caribbean - Barbuda,...
Jamaicans have seen many unsuccessful anti-crime initiatives in the past that have been largely characterised by the use of brute force and the wanton abuse of human rights. However, initial reports from residents of Mount Salem, St James, where the...
During my years of service as an assistant chaplain with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), I developed a deep insight into the force, and a great admiration for the women and men who served, for the most part, in difficult, and frankly,...
Myanmar, formerly Burma, in Southeast Asia, is a long way from Jamaica in the Caribbean. And there is little by way of economic and political relations between the two countries.By that measure, events in Myanmar, such as the ongoing situation with...
September 11, 2001 is a date that has been seared into the memories of millions of people old enough to have experienced the series of events that unfolded in the United States of America on that day.By then, the World Wide Web of information had...
Developed and developing countries are faced with constant national challenges which, if not managed or solved, threaten their growth and development. Jamaica has many challenges, but a single factor that stands out based upon its frequency,...
They say belief kill and belief cure. Well, I will add that belief can bruk yu pocket. I've been growing increasingly uncomfortable with leeches who prey upon persons in desperate situations. The saddest part is that the vultures aren't the sleazy-...
We like the gung-ho terms in which Asif Ahmad, the new British high commissioner to Kingston, perceives the future of relations between Jamaica and the United Kingston, including the possibilities for trade in the post-Brexit period.If we interpret...
Two weeks ago, The Gleaner published my column ‘Slavery in the Bible’, in which I expressed concern about the tolerance of slavery in the revered book. My friend, the Rev Clinton Chisholm, responded the following Sunday with a stinging...
Every one of us should pause a while to give thanks for being spared from the ravages of the natural disasters that have come so close to us in the past week.Two or three vicious hurricanes and a massive earthquake in nearby Mexico should jerk us...
Yup, it's back-to-school time once again, and while some kids absent themselves altogether, others are only present in body, but absent in heart and mind. Some are swept away by an avalanche of raging adolescent hormones that surge unopposed within...
If the electorate were to any time soon give the People's National Party (PNP) another opportunity to form Jamaica's government, they should come to office knowing what they want to do and be clear about their policy priorities.Peter Phillips, the...
The unease of Jamaicans For Justice's Rodje Malcolm with Section 41 of the proposed National Identification and Registration Act is not, on the face of it, without merit, especially to those who believe - among whom this newspaper counts itself -...
On Miss Lou's birthday last Thursday, I'd intended to launch a petition to declare her a national heroine. It would have been posted on the website of the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM): http://opm.gov.jm/participate/jamaica-house-petition.I...
Two Fridays ago, as the nation held its collective breath, dignitaries, including the prime minister and the security chiefs, plus assorted PR add-ons, gathered in the banquet hall of Jamaica House to announce the first rollout of the zones of...
Harvey just left and his effect is as lasting as jackfruit odour on the fingers of a hapless spouse. Irma, Jose and Katia, three active hurricanes in the Atlantic for the first time in a decade, give no chance to the global warming/climate naysayers...
