Three men - an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman had joined the French Foreign Legion, and after a few months of the intolerable Saharan desert heat, attempted to desert. They were caught and tried by the authorities who felt that they should...
1. You've got to win in 2016 - 2016 can be your best year ever. You have got to pull out all the stops. How much do you want It now? You must want it as badly as you need oxygen to breathe. If you have been waiting on that one person to change your...
More Jamaicans are arming themselves, legally. Statistics provided by the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) revealed that in 2015, a total of 3,980 gun licenses were issued. Jamaica's high murder rate and the inability of the police to protect...
No one can genuinely claim surprise at the manner in which a United Nations report on global undernourishment has been instantly turned into a political football between the opposition Jamaica Labour Party and the governing People's National Party....
Published:Wednesday | December 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMCollin Greenland
Fraud surfaces through many sources, including management review and other controls, internal audit; external audit; risk assessment; law enforcement, concerned employees; outside informants; and...
Published:Wednesday | December 30, 2015 | 12:00 AM
One of the things that has always intrigued me about the early Greeks is their fascination for a series of gods, each one, like government ministers, with their own portfolio. Zeus, of course, was the ultimate father of them all. One curious fact...
Published:Wednesday | December 30, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Today is only day seven of the 12 days of Christmas, yet already the downtown and uptown bazaars and the radio stations have stopped playing Christmas carols. It seems like pagans have taken over the Christian celebration of Christmas!For centuries...
There has been much debate of late about the number of teachers who are leaving the classroom for supposedly more lucrative teaching opportunities in England, where a qualified teacher earns at least £22,244 or £27,819 if you are in inner London.
Recently, Mary and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary at Moon Palace hotel, formerly Sunset Jamaica Grande. It was good that this Mexican-owned and operated hotel incorporated the Jamaican phrase 'Yeah Mon' into its promotional literature and...
After celebrating this festive holiday through our customary traditions of revelling in the season's indulgences and gorging on delectable feasts, many organisations will be happy to wave the challenging 2015 goodbye and usher in 2016 with fresh...
Published:Wednesday | December 30, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Jamaica's petroleum industry has been jolted by the unravelling of a web of conspiracy and corruption that appears to be widespread and entrenched, threatening public confidence in the key ingredient of private and public transportation.It is an...
Our island was not hit by a hurricane and neither were we rattled to the core by the earthquake that our seismologists have been warning will happen, if we are lucky, later than sooner.We were neither encumbered nor liberated by a general election...
Horace Levy has been a dedicated Jamaican in the cause of peace and development for decades. He therefore deserves a thoughtful response to his letter in The Gleaner of December 28, 2015 commenting on my speech to the Rotary Club of downtown...
I refer to a December 16, 2015 article in the press, titled: 'Transfer-pricing regime illegal and unconstitutional'. I reckon the cowardly, anonymous writer to be ghastly ignorant and politically sentimental. The article was fundamentally devoid of...
While we acknowledge the breadth of sociological experience that University of the West Indies lecturer and anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle brings to his analysis of Jamaica's broken education sector, Silburn Clarke offers a more nuanced and...
Remember, these awards are meant to be humourous, so don't bother sending pompous emails or threatening letters. Instead, try laughing at yourself as heartily as you laugh at others.n 2015 Dunce Award: ANTHONY HYLTON wins for his devil-may-care...
Those who read my column know that I have no secrets and that my life and all the characters therein are fair game. You will recall in March that I professed undying love for a Seventh-day Adventist Rastaman (a combination only I could find); and...
This refers to a recent invitation, by the Chairman of the Western Kingston Commission of Inquiry to members of the public, for recommendations for preventing a repetition of the events that occurred in that community in May 2010.When looked at from...
PERHAPS PORTIA Simpson Miller, Jamaica's first female prime minister and current head of government, will claim distraction by the apparently imminent call for a general election and the associated cross-island drumming up of support in political...
The week before Christmas, I stopped by a popular pharmacy in upper St Andrew. My friend, media personality Terri-Karelle Reid, was with me at the time, and I saw her diligently searching for something on the shelf displaying dolls. I asked her...
The term 'death spiral'is often used in accounting (financial) matters to explain insurance, production or investment missteps and the resultant maladjustments that lead to massive losses. It is also used in ice skating to describe the very rapid...
As we come to the end of the year 2015, for some it was one of the most difficult, most challenging years. For others, it was a really good year, for many long-standing issues were resolved. Many, because of lack of funds and opportunity, in...
We reserve comment on the validity of Francine Belliveau's specific grievance with the Child Development Agency (CDA), but believe it is a good launching pad for a wider discussion on adoptions in Jamaica.While Ms Belliveau's Canadian citizenship...
I realised a long time ago that I owed my life to Jesus Christ. Seriously. And no, I'm not going all Lady Saw, even though I will volunteer to help her do the Lord's work out on Back Road.As much as I wish I were making a confession of faith, I'm...
