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Published:Saturday | June 11, 2016 | 9:06 PM

Whether you realise it or not, even at this very moment, someone out there not only wants you, but needs you.Someone is desperately seeking the unique thing that gives a warm, fuzzy, tingly, heart-pounding feeling inside. And you - yes, you - have...

Published:Sunday | June 12, 2016 | 12:00 AM

We welcome the urgency and seriousness with which Kingston and Port-of-Spain are going about their long-simmering, but often ill-defined disputes. Keith Rowley, the Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, says he plans to speak "directly to the Jamaican...

Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM

It's time to say a special good-bye to my friend, Gary Wayne Spaulding and his friend Glenroy Wayne Sinclair.I never met Glenroy but, about five years ago, I was leaving Golden Bowl after widening my horizons at lunch when a nondescript looking chap...

Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Integrity the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. This quality is frequently sought after in our society, but do we get?We get politicians like Andrew Holness, who the courts found breached the Constitution of Jamaica and he...

Published:Saturday | June 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Jamaicans, even those concerned with matters relating to gender equality, paid almost no attention to last week's referendum in The Bahamas and its astonishing outcome.Yet, what transpired holds lessons about how, in a polarised environment, people...

Published:Saturday | June 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

It's a week of great sadness at The Gleaner with the loss of Glenroy Sinclair and Gary Spaulding. People have been tendering well-deserved tributes and accolades to these two professionals, including our prime minister, who visited the Old Lady of...

Published:Saturday | June 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMCarolyn Cooper

This Friday, Cecil Cooper will celebrate his 70th birthday in fine style at the Olympia Gallery with an exhibition of his paintings.In 1967, almost 50 years ago, Cooper's first one-man show was held at the Gallery of the Contemporary Jamaican...

Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM

"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck.My daughter loved cereal, especially the chocolate-flavoured ones. In those days, together with her television...

Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The Holness administration has been heavily criticised for its tardiness in naming persons to crucial public-sector boards since assuming office in March of this year.While it is absolutely essential to put in place prudent management in the...

Published:Thursday | June 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

My article published a few weeks ago, which said that match-ups are overrated in basketball, clearly didn't go down well with some Jamaicans. My radio show and my editor at The Gleaner were kept busy by people who questioned my understanding of the...

Published:Thursday | June 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

I am amused at the call on the Government during the sectoral debate last Tuesday by People's National Party (PNP) spokesman on energy and mining, Phillip Paulwell, to urgently address boundary issues in the Cockpit Country. For more than two years...

Published:Thursday | June 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Robert Montague's ability in his speeches, to, with a straight face and oblivious to discomfort, stick his feet in his mouth, places the security minister in danger, unfortunately, of developing a reputation for buffoonery and ineptitude. "In terms...

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The death of Muhammad Ali, three-time heavyweight champion, marks the passing of a fighter extraordinaire. He was defiant in converting from Christianity to the Nation of Islam and equally defiant that he would not be drafted to fight in the Vietnam...

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The People's National Party (PNP) is in a peculiar position as it wrestles with the notion of 'renewal' and maintaining much of what has been touted as sound beliefs and practices that make it the political party of choice. What a prekkeh!Many...

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The rule of law and, its handmaiden, a free and independent judicial system, are critical allies in the preservation of democracy and freedoms guaranteed thereby. That is why this newspaper respects the use by individuals of the processes of the...

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

I don't know when I first started noticing it. Perhaps it was the time I went to clear some goods I'd shipped from India a couple of years ago at one of Kingston's ports. After navigating the much improved process of recovering your possessions from...

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Having completed its first 100 days in office, the Holness administration can look back with some satisfaction at the groundwork it has laid for the months and years ahead.Incoming governments always seek to impress taxpayers by remarking that there...

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Among the noteworthy aspects of Julian Robinson's disclosure to The Gleaner of his income and asset filings with Parliament's Integrity Commission is the speed with which it was done. Within hours of media stories about his planned purchase of an...

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

If the Andrew Holness administration is to convince the ordinary man on the street that it is committed to justice, it must commit to break the parliamentary tradition of passing laws only in favour of the prosecution in the past 15 years.A...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Readers who also follow me on Twitter (both of them) are confused most Saturdays by my references to SWMBO.SWMBO is an abbreviation of the name of The Terrible Tout's wife's. Her full name is She Who Must Be Obeyed. "But, but ... ," I hear you...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Crime reduction and the improvement of law and order didn't make it on to the JLP's 10-Point Election Plan, although public concern over crime is consistently at the top of issues of concern in the polls.It is much better to pay attention to the...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMPatria-Kaye Aarons

I'm not a mother - yet. But I've played a motherly role to many and feel as if my brother is a product of my own womb.Last week, when I watched the video from the Cincinnati Zoo of the 400-pound gorilla hauling and pulling that four-year-old boy up...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM

What Julian Robinson has done is, of itself, commendable. But more important, by making his income and asset filings public, he is giving new purchase to people who campaign for decency, integrity and transparency from politicians who vie for the...

Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMMichael Abrahams

For most of my life, I have associated the word ‘harambe’ with Rita Marley’s album and song of the same name. Today, when I hear that word, I think of Harambe, the 17-year-old silverback gorilla that was shot and killed after a...

Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Consider the news last week of a lawsuit filed on behalf of the estates of two casualties of the 2010 Tivoli incursion (some call it a massacre) in which soldiers and policemen are alleged to have executed the victims.The horror that should be...

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