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Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AM

As someone whose ears are close to the ground, I could not process the published polls, whose findings indicated that the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were in a statistical dead heat. That is incredible!My...

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AM

When the news came that there were serious drug problems in Russian athletics, nobody was surprised. We can't be blamed for being sceptical. Too many of the world's top athletes have been caught with illegal substances for us to be surprised when we...

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Horace Dalley is right to have invited Dr Alfred Dawes for a chat on the health sector. But not only Dr Dawes. And not only to rehash the woes of the sector, which have already been widely aired.Rather, minister Dalley should initiate a broad, frank...

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMJaevion Nelson, Contributor

It is customary for politicians to banter about national issues and field all sorts of ludicrous accusations and speculations at their opponents, especially when an election is imminent. Too many of our politicians use their positions and every...

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMDevon Dick, Contributor

This month marks 25 years since I started to write as a columnist: First for the now defunct Daily News and later for The Gleaner. In addition, at The Gleaner I have had the privilege of coordinating its religion page and writing annual reviews on...

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Not unexpectedly, Jamaican politicians are already seeking avenues around the very modest attempt to curb the free-for-all in raising cash for election campaigns and for some level of accountability about how that money is spent. Brazenly, they even...

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

There are some who make an honest bread and are content with living a simple life - within their means. The vast majority of us fall into this bracket.But there are others who, even with the absence of education and skill, have found a way to live...

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

No man likes it when his date shows up late, or, worse, doesn't turn up at all. Insult is added to injury, especially when the excuse is so pathetic that is plainly untrue."My grandmother died just as I was getting to leave," would suffice if the...

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMLisa Tomlinson

Dr Herbert Gayle's claim that the brutal beating of boys by their mothers facilitates the creation of killers is quite alarming on a number of grounds.This proposition should not be relied on to explain the cause(s) of pervasive violence in the...

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

By keeping the country guessing about the date of the general election, while seeking to determine - with divine help, she says - when would be the most propitious time for her People's National Party (PNP), Prime Minister Portia Simpson employed an...

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

I'm being pushed out of my chair by the Old Ball and Chain who insists she has something to say. So, before she shoves me down the stairs and breaks my other ankle, here she is:"What's to be done with Old Gray Balls?"He doesn't know if he's coming...

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

We are a nation of complainers. Complaining and criticising has become a national pastime. We complain without informing ourselves, without analysing what we have in front of us; we complain without any knowledge of what happens elsewhere.We bash...

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

I am drawn to a Gleaner article in which three noted educators from the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) and the Association of Principals and Vice Principals are supporting this Government's so-called mandatory auxiliary fees policy in...

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Both Arthur Williams and Marlene Malahoo Forte can't be telling the truth. One of them is lying about who knew what, and when, about the signing of those now infamous, undated resignation letters.Veracity, until otherwise can be established, seems...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The new minister of health has at least one great advantage over his predecessor - he has witnessed the pitfalls and areas of concern within the ministry. He has stated that he plans to make changes and singled out accountability. But, I'm concerned...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Glendon Harris, the mayor of Montego Bay, last week announced a project in conjunction with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the development of his city, about which we doubt most stakeholders, particularly the municipality's residents...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

In a few week's time, in December, the authoritative 2015 global Corruption Perception Index (CPI), reflecting expert opinion of public-sector corruption in counties around the world, will be published. It is the eleventh hour, but there is still...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Now that the debate to move to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the country's final court of appeal is dead without a referendum, lawmakers in the new Parliament should give serious consideration to packaging a set of constitutional reforms...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

We cannot have success until we begin to see ourselves as God sees us. Many times we tend to forfeit our purpose, because we often see ourselves as grasshoppers rather than giant killers!...

Published:Friday | November 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

These recent Paris attacks have been a frightening reminder of the unusual brutality of ISIS. These crazy people also downed a Russian plane. Meanwhile, their affiliates in Nigeria have been killing even more people.If the whole business of knowing...

Published:Friday | November 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMCarolyn Cooper

Mi shame fi di PNP. Wa mek dem a tek set pon Andrew house? Ascorden to di headline a one Gleaner story weh publish last Monday, 'Andrew's mansion talking point on PNP platform'. Mi never know dem wuda stoop to dat. Better dem...

Published:Friday | November 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

It is not unexpected, and right, that in the face of the Paris terror attacks, Jamaica's intelligence service, according to the security minister, Peter Bunting, "have heightened levels of monitoring of suspicious activities". But this ought not to...

Published:Friday | November 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

If there is one pattern that has emerged in what may yet turn out to be just the first chapter of this election campaign season, that pattern can best be described by one word: uncertainty.A few months ago, the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...

Published:Friday | November 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

There is a convergence of factors in Jamaica. All are in train to influence the future in different, but significant and practical ways.Regarding the Senate debate on the adoption of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as our final court of appeal...

Published:Saturday | November 21, 2015 | 12:00 AM

MUCH OF the world is on edge. The heightened risk of more terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere has placed countries on alert with most reviewing security arrangements to try to keep out militants, who have been fomenting bloodshed and flexing...

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