Try as I might, I can't even begin to imagine how anyone could murderously shoot another human being. I can sympathise with people who happen to take the life of a criminal in order to save their own life or the life of another, but understanding...
Published:Sunday | May 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMWendy Samaroo
With reference to David Muhammad's recent article in The Gleaner titled 'From Trinidad to Jamaica with love' (Sunday Gleaner, May 1, 2016), I see that he cites only negative references to the Indian population of Trinidad...
The article appearing in The Gleaner of April 27, 2016 headlined 'ISCF is dying' does not represent the current state of the movement. We respect the perspectives and opinions...
Luke 17: 20 - 21 says: "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, 'The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here.' or 'See there.'For indeed, the kingdom...
Over the last week, there have been many disturbing statements coming out of Trinidad regarding our Caribbean Jamaican family. Things have been said that have come across as inflammatory, prejudiced, and even hateful. Jamaican citizens have been...
One time, me and my bredren stepped into the club and right there, over in the shadowy corner, was a scantily clad girl, who, from where we stood, was looking good. My friend immediately approached to open up a conversation. By then, of course, it...
Jamaicans have always been attracted to living in the USA. As a people, we have done so lawfully and legitimately for many decades. However, we have increasingly shown up in the upper rankings of countries with large numbers of illegal aliens, or...
The lumpen-proleteriat enlisted enthusiastically as foot soldiers in the paramilitary organisations of the major political parties for the 1980 general election. Until then, the spoils of political warfare were limited to welfare grants, small...
April 21 was the 50th anniversary of the momentous visit of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I to Jamaica. One of the events to mark the occasion was a public lecture the following day by his grandson, Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie. In his...
There is need for further and better particulars from Prime Minister Andrew Holness about his proposed commission to assess Jamaica's role in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). But based on his remarks last week on the matter, this newspaper is...
Recent media reports highlight Jamaica's protracted crisis of youth unemployment. The April 10 edition of The Sunday Gleaner featured an article titled 'Anywhere but Afghanistan: 80% of Jamaican youngsters want to...
It is not unreasonable, until it is proven otherwise, to conclude that the people who run, and work at, the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay are at best egregiously careless, or at worst, criminally negligent. Either way, they need to be...
(Dedicated to my friend, Derek Jones, who sent me an Emo-textual quip: "I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?")"What's purple and hums?" An electric grape. "Why does it hum?" It doesn't know the words. Marshall McLuhan, the...
Jamaica would be better off with God, so affirmed pastors, Errol Bolt, Stevenson Samuels and Dwight Fletcher (Sunday Gleaner, April 24, 2016). Cocksure and self-assured, one of the trio, Samuels, proclaimed, "actually, I don't know what Jamaica...
Never in my wildest dreams did I think that in my lifetime I would see a black two-term president in racist USA. I still don't understand it!And then there is the Bernie Sanders phenomenon: a Jewish democratic socialist making a good run to become...
One of my favourite novels is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The main character in the book was Atticus Finch, a white lawyer who defended a black man, Tom Robinson, in a trumped-up rape charge against a girl named Mayella Ewell.The book was...
Andrew Holness could hardly have done a better job in choosing people than those he has so far named - Michael Lee-Chin and Nigel Clarke - to sit on, and lead, the wise persons' group the administration expects to identify and drive initiatives to...
Last week, Usain Bolt, in commenting on whether he would continue to run on the track after the Rio Olympics said, "Personally, I don't really want to continue for years and years because it is getting hard. I have to sacrifice more and more. It...
Successive governments have failed miserably to budget effectively to facilitate increased access to and secure justice, especially for the most marginalised and vulnerable in our society. What will it take for us to realise that the impunity...
Shahine Robinson, the labour and social security minister, like the Government of which she is a member, is still new on the job, so she might not as yet be in full command of all the elements of her portfolio. In any event, people don't like to...
Published:Tuesday | April 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMJohn Horn
When I was in the third grade, my eldest brother studied abroad in Paris for his third year of university. That year represented for him not only an exposure to French culture, but also an introduction to Jamaican culture, as he discovered reggae...
It is good and useful that the People's National Party (PNP), in the wake of its election defeat, is engaged in some serious soul-searching to determine where it went wrong and why many people are disenchanted with the party. As with any such...
In another few weeks, the Rio Olympics will be here. Already there are discussions on how well Usain Bolt will perform. We are also keen on seeing how Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Warren Weir, Yohan Blake, Hansle Parchment, Omar McLeod and company stack...
Published:Tuesday | April 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMByron Buckley
The editorial 'Think carefully on auxiliary fees' and an article, 'Rethink school freeness mentality' by Ronald Thwaites, opposition spokesman on education, in yesterday's edition of The Gleaner, raise several criticisms about Government's proposal...
In a perfect world where state resources were plentiful and reliable, of course it would be a good thing to offer all-important social services free of cost - and what more important ones than health and education. Ideally, the same people receiving...
