Commentary

On the 4th of July, I attended the Canada 150 celebration hosted by the High Commission. As I observed the display of nationalism, I kept wondering about the people whose "home and native land" had been captured by Europeans. When did their Canadian...

Despite the unprecedented economic growth of 6.7 per cent during his premiership from 1955-1962, Norman Washington Manley was keenly aware that too many Jamaicans had been left behind, and the wealth had been concentrated in too few hands. His...

From the moment I learnt that dew did not fall but formed, and wearing a hat in the night was no insurance against a severe head cold from all that malignant precipitation, I tended to look askance at all the other warnings.Not surprisingly, one...

The Sunday Gleaner of May 28, 2017 published a story titled 'When girls go missing - sex, family woes and peer pressure, which was based on findings from the Office of the Children's Registry's preliminary study on child disappearances in Jamaica....

In his online Gleaner column last Monday, medical specialist, comedian and poet Michael Abrahams exposed probably the biggest scandal to plague Christianity in modern times. He titled his column 'The amazing diversity of Christianity', but, being a...

At the regular summit in Grenada on Wednesday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness chided regional counterparts for moving too slowly in transforming the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) into a genuine single market and economy - the CSME, in the parlance of...

No one is likely to have come close to losing their life savings, or very much. Yet, those Jamaicans who were suckered into last weekend's telephone fraud would now have a feeling of what it is like to be scammed and are, hopefully, more empathetic...

I am responding, as I certainly feel is my duty, to Phillip Alexander's letter as published in the June 24 edition of this newspaper.Let me first say that I personally share Mr Alexander's passionate concern for the environment that sustains us and...

The deadline that Saudi Arabia and its allies set for Qatar to submit to their "non-negotiable" demands has just been postponed from Monday to Wednesday. Since Qatar has already made it plain that it will not comply - it says the demands are "...