I have read the Reverend Garnett Roper's article ('CCJ resistance proves JLP just can't think', Sunday Gleaner, May 24, 2015) more than once trying to find the arguments he presents for support of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to replace the...
Last Sunday, on my way home from Havana, I ran into Ebony Patterson at the airport. She was one of the international artists invited to exhibit in the Havana Biennial. And the only Jamaican! On Saturday afternoon, I had happily wandered around Old...
We were not in favour of Sepp Blatter's re-election as president of FIFA, world football's governing body. For even if Mr Blatter may not have himself been corrupt, he allowed a culture of permissiveness that culminated with last week's dramatic...
Head of the Planning Institute, Colin Bullock, recently declared growth to be "an imperative", and attributed Jamaica's failure to achieve it to the fact that "the economy is too fragile" andvulnerable to the vagaries of weather.Coming 20 years...
We often hear that the female of the species is deadlier than the male. Instead of reaching for a cigarette or some other herbal relaxant, female tarantulas devour and eat their male sex partners, a case of having dinner after rather than before....
The epidemic of violence that has gripped our country for such a long time is now penetrating rural Jamaica in a frightening manner.Last month, the country watched as anguished relatives mourned multiple killings of three boys and a man in a...
In his Sectoral presentation to Parliament on May 29, National Security Minister Peter Bunting said, inter alia, "MOCA (Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency) is the vanguard agency for detection and investigation of criminal kingpins,...
Several Cabinet ministers, to their credit, have given a solemn undertaking that "there will be no mining in the Cockpit Country" because of its ecological, hydrological and cultural importance - the most recent being Environment Minister Robert...
In a matter of days, the winners of the 2014-2015 NBA Championship will be decided. It's a dream final. If the organisers had scripted it from the start, this is exactly how they would want it.Stephen Curry, the hottest star in the league this year...
Four years ago when Jack Warner retreated from global and regional football rather than face scrutiny over the bin Hammam bribery scandal, this newspaper urged that the leadership posts he vacated not be filled by any of his acolytes - the persons...
Published:Thursday | May 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMKamau Francis
It was with great amusement that I listened to the minister of finance announce a three per cent withholding tax on payments to suppliers over $50,000 to commence May 1, 2015 (subsequently pushed back to June 1, 2015).Amid the chaos and angry...
Published:Tuesday | May 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMDevon Dick
Last week Friday, I attended a meeting hosted by head of Jamaica's USAID, Denise Herbol, with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) envoy Randy Berry and LGBT coordinator Todd Larson present, along with persons of faith. The meeting was...
I happened to read some content about the Noranda Company that wishes to expand its interests in Jamaica, increasing the size of its port and wishing to negotiate some additional taxation terms. A matter of quid pro quo should not need a second look...
Published:Wednesday | May 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMJaevion Nelson
It appears a great many of us - media practitioners included - are clueless about how the contravention of the rights of minority groups such as people with disabilities (PWD) and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people can impact...
There are unlikely to be many people shocked by the latest allegations of corruption in the world football's governing body, FIFA, leading to Wednesday's dramatic arrest of several of the game's leading executives at a posh Swiss hotel, and America'...
Week after week, the headlines in The Gleaner have become increasingly dismal for the Jamaican youth population. Issues such as child violence and child neglect/abuse have become constant contenders for the cover page and can even be found all...
On May 10, Jamaicans took part in the annual global mass-market celebration of biological and social mothers - the much-loved Mother's Day.Social media was abuzz with timeline feeds, selfies of people with their mothers, and memes publicly extolling...
Mr Audley Shaw may not be in command of the details, but whatever may be said about hindsight and 20/20, he is correct about the principle. The Simpson Miller administration has been too slow about public-sector reform, which is one of the reasons...
The fall of Ramadi to Islamic State (IS) troops last Wednesday was not a big deal. The city was deep inside IS-held territory, IS fighters had controlled 80 per cent of it since March, and we already knew that the Iraqi army can't fight. Even so,...
Why am I not surprised at Government attacking Jamaica's endemic child abuse problem like a Square One soca song?Square One's popular recording, Kitty Cat, urges fans to "attack it from the back", the popularity of which lyric in otherwise...
We appreciate that Carl Williams, the commissioner of police, means well. But there are more credible ways of assuaging Jamaicans and calming their fears over galloping murders than talking sop, which was the essence of his offering last week ...
I'm really thankful for the rain, as I'm sure most of us are. But the rain has a way of highlighting the insensitive among us. I took note from the safety of my little car just how many motorists drove and splashed pedestrians without even the...
This is an open letter to Portia Simpson Miller, prime minister of Jamaica.Dear Prime Minister,Thank you for articulating an unequivocal stance on the protection of children from abuse in your address to the nation on Sunday, May 17, 2015. It was a...
Michael Abrahams Online Columnist Recently I organized a march for our children, which took place two Sundays ago. I grew weary of hearing about children going missing, being abused and getting murdered and was tired of just talking. I...
