'We want justice' is their cry. 'we want justice' is their plea.For centuries, left-handers have suffered unfair discrimination in a world designed for right-handers. I am particularly interested in this topic because I have been a victim of such...
With the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) having submitted to the will of the Gangs of Gordon House, Andre Hylton, the sitting Member of Parliament for Eastern St Andrew - or whoever else - can legitimately splash about substantially more cash...
In JLP circles and among many outside that party, it is a rarity to mention 'economic growth' and 'PNP administration' in the same sentence. The facts seem to be on the side of those who cite the long ride of the PNP from 1989 to 2007 during which...
Published:Tuesday | January 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMDujon Russell
The story that was published in this newspaper 'Guidance counsellors shun gay, lesbian students' (January 11, 2016) is extremely upsetting as it has brought to the fore, once more, the issue of inequality and the discrimination being faced by gays...
The recent announcement by the Jamaican Government that funds in the national insurance scheme are likely to be exhausted within the next 20 years, based on the net outflow, is a timely reminder that the management of these funds has been woefully...
New Year's Eve sexual attacks on dozens of women in the city of Cologne have sparked outrage in Germany, the political and economic leader of the European Union (EU), threatening a volcanic overflow of emotions and clashes between migrant...
After decades of struggle, the world is celebrating political correctness' crushing defeat of humour.Everybody takes themselves so seriously; develops skin thinner than Dwayne Vaz's excuses (don't worry, cocked dice, I've not forgotten you); takes...
It must have been a heck of a slow news day in Australia last week.Chris Gayle flirted with a female journalist on live TV and the whole world got their panties in a bother. To me, it's a little extreme.Was Chris crass? Yes.Was his advance ill-timed...
Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany's doors to a million refugees and migrants last year - three times as many as the rest of the European Union put together. Critics in Germany predicted a popular backlash and warned that even her own Christian...
When Ronald Thwaites, Jamaica's education minister, announced the dissemination of a security manual aimed at deterring the bullying of gay schoolchildren, he might not have realised that guidance counsellors were among the main culprits.It is...
Andrew Holness, the Jamaica Labour Party leader, has finally nailed down a date, by March 31, for the release of his finances in a bid to dissipate a storm of controversy over the multimillion-dollar mansion he and his wife are constructing in...
Chris Gayle’s controversial remarks to female Australian sports reporter Mel McLaughlin, on live television, have elicited a global response of tsunami-scale proportions, sparking a raging debate concerning sexism, professionalism, double...
Published:Sunday | January 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMTess Lawrence
Aggressive West Indies left-handed slogger and occasionally deadly off-spinner Chris Gayle is cricket's equivalent of a crack military sniper. He's slain dozens of records and supplanted his own.He wields a mighty willow on the pitch. He clearly...
Everyone needs a pastor, regardless of their position or status in life. The global problems and moral decline we now face is the lack of enough good pastors and shepherds. The condition of our youth is the result of a lack of enough true pastors....
On the night of June 15, 2013, circumstances led four local residents and church friends of a Texas neighbourhood to congregate on the sidewalk of their quiet middle-class residential community. Not far away, 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who is from a...
I write to explore the findings of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization report which were published in The Gleaner on December 28, 2015. The article stated that Jamaica and other CARICOM countries are making good progress in reducing hunger...
The West Indies Cricket Board's (WICB) no-balling of the CARICOM Review Panel's recommendation that the cricket authority dissolve itself came as no surprise in the wake of Dave Cameron's reticence, initially, to meet with, and dismissive attitude...
Chris Gayle beg likkle p** p** from a white girl on TV and it's like the whole world wants to lose dem goddamn mind! As Dwayne 'Vybz' Vaztel might say, "Ah weh dem feel like?" Actually, Gayle didn't even get around to beggin' it. He was just asking...
I feel sorry for Chris Gayle. It must be so hard to be a sex symbol. Women always throwing themselves at him! Perhaps, even men, too. With all that attention, it's easy to see how Gayle could start to think of himself as irresistible. So much so, he...
Let us assume that a large company like RUBiS is aware that a shipment of petrol is on the high seas and per unit of gas, the price is better to the company than it would be had it been purchased from the refinery at Petrojam.RUBiS would be able to...
Published:Friday | January 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMFayval Williams
What do residents in a community do when they do not want a vital service delivered in a particular way but the monopoly provider insists on providing it a different way? The history of Hope Pastures residents' efforts to prevent its underground...
We suspect that the Reverend Glenroy Clarke, pastor of the Lucea United Church in the western parish of Hanover, is recycling the rhetoric common to Sunday sermons about a call for Christians to flood the streets with religious tracts, gospel songs...
Apart from some mundane meanderings in meaning, like the identity of Twirly and Twisty, the possibility of a pig dancing a jig for a fig, the wanderings of Goosey Goosey Gander and the gustatory delight of 'monkey liver soup', the West Indian Reader...
Finally, Chief Justice Zaila McCalla has turned her attention to the staggering backlog that has been clogging the court system for decades. This malady of failing to meet the fundamentals of criminal justice has gone on for too long.According to a...
The recent pact signed by the Cuban and United States governments for bilateral academic collaboration between the University of Havana and Virginia Commonwealth University serves as a reminder to Jamaican schools to broaden relations with their...
