Commentary

You don't have to either vote or shut upMany are waiting on the sound of the trumpet and the ring of the deliverance bell. The party faithful are busy purchasing all the orange and green cloth they can find. Fancy decals with candidates' faces are...

The Reggae Boyz have managed to keep themselves in contention for the final round of six in the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers with a hard-fought 1-0 win away to Haiti on Tuesday. One win and one loss after two games is not ideal, but it could have...

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has taken note of your article in The Gleaner of Tuesday, November 17, 2015 titled 'Waste piling up as water crisis grips UWI'. It has also seen an article published in The Gleaner of Wednesday,...

In his column 'Why we should embrace the CCJ' (Sunday Gleaner, November 8, 2015), Justice Minister Mark Golding stated, in part, with reference to the Charter of Rights, that " ... the Charter's saving provisions ... was deliberately adopted by the...

It was 2007 and I was having a Pepsi at an establishment. There was an air of expectancy.I learnt that the proprietor's son was to be released from prison later that day and a celebration was planned. An SUV pulled up to the door and stopped. Out...

What's to be done with Booklist Boyne?Every time I convince myself to stop trying the impossible, namely, to educate him, he writes something so hostile to logic, so religiously dogmatic that I'm obliged to correct the record for those who might've...

In the midst of our supposedly 'modern' mindset, certain ancient prejudices and behaviours stubbornly persist. One such is the desire and demand every so often for a scapegoat, a sacrificial lamb, and for the ritualistic shedding of blood.Fenton...

Jamaica was granted full adult suffrage on November 20, 1944. Before that, voting was restricted to men, and only those possessing certain amounts of property or wealth. Today, Jamaican men and women who have attained the age of 18 years,...

We expect there will be much crowing of vindication among the deficit deniers and advocates of unaffordable Keynesian-type spending and fiscal indiscipline. They misapprehend.There is value in discipline, which is what is reflected in last week's...

As a concerned citizen and voter in the East Rural St Andrew constituency, I would like to draw public attention to what is happening there, and to pose questions being asked by voters who are baffled by recent events that culminated in the...