Commentary

I write in response to Maurice Tomlinson's letter of December 18, 2015, titled '40% [Jamaican] heterosexuals have anal sex', which coincides with his in-court attack launched against the buggery laws of Jamaica.Tomlinson's letter is a perverted mix...

NEVILLE WORDSWORTH deSouza, 12th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, whose passing is being mourned, following his death at the age of 87, was one of the church's most interesting proclaimers of the Word and, more often...

Public feedback from the recently concluded climate-change summit in Paris suggests that Caribbean delegates came away fairly satisfied with the accord that was negotiated in the French capital.More than 190 countries signed an accord that committed...

Over the years, I have made the argument that the real reason the West Indies are struggling so badly in Test cricket is that the average West Indian boy is no longer as passionate about the game, as was the case in the 1970s and '80s.Others have...

Since my conversion to the Christian faith earlier this week, a lot of people have suggested that I'm not genuine. But I didn't make the decision. God did.Some people are making negative arguments that I did it to steal the limelight of dancehall...

The Gleaner editorial of December 11, 2015 wished luck on human-rights lawyer Maurice Tomlinson's constitutional challenge to Jamaica's buggery law. The editorial went on to treat the objection to homosexual acts as informed primarily, if not...

Lloyd Goodleigh was of a cohort later than Hopeton Caven and Clive Dobson, but his death on Monday marked another move in the transition of the third generation of modern Jamaica's labour leaders at a time when trade unions are seeking a new,...

We do not want to say it, but we cannot escape the reality that fundamental to the war being waged by ISIS is a modern-day fight for God.At all stages of man's existence, there has always been a fight waged by one group on behalf of its God against...

Attempting to extricate himself from folly by assuming the stupidity of others, young Dwayne Vaz has succeeded in twisting his knickers and is in danger of choking himself to a prone political future. The Central Westmoreland member of parliament...

The Gleaner of Saturday, December 12, 2015 published a front-page news story headlined 'Reject political violence', which, in part, stated that Dorothy Pine-McLarty, chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica, has publicly called on every law-abiding Jamaican to reject any attempt to introduce political violence during the period leading up to the next general election, or thereafter...