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The cop and the camera

Published:Sunday | April 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Some 25 years ago, I predicted that the advent of camera phones would place police accounts of shooting incidents under the microscope of public scrutiny, and so said so done. A few weeks after my prediction, a policeman was caught on tape, brutally...

Riverton's treasure trove

Published:Sunday | April 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The horrific effects of the latest Riverton fire have been well heralded and, as usual, the various solutions are rehashed, the debate goes on and will probably dissipate with the exasperating smoke. Prominent amongst the items mentioned by the...

Lessons from the Obama visit

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States of America, has just completed a working visit to Jamaica. I have no personal recollection of the visit by Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, but having read his characterisation of our people, I was...

Editorial: As Obama says, stay the course

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

It is not one that the populists will like, but if Barack Obama left one message with Jamaica, it is that there are no sustainable shortcuts out of the island's economic crisis and America is not about to encourage any such fancy. In other words,...

Big Up Dr Zuma and Mr Obama!

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Last Thursday, the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies hosted two distinguished visitors. Yes, two! Not just United States President Barack Obama. A couple of hours after his uplifting town hall meeting, another speaker of equal stature...

Obama endorsed Portia

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

It has been an extraordinary week with the visit by US President Barack Obama and the convergence on Kingston of numerous heads of government and dignitaries. People, including my children and I, spilled out to catch a glimpse of 'the real big man...

Why Jamaica is no Singapore

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMAkshai Mansingh

I was pleased to read John Rapley's wrap-up ('Jamaica awaiting our Lee Kuan Yew', March 30, 2015) of the legacy and funeral of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, especially since I was sitting in Singapore, having arrived at the time of his...

Editorial: Engaging the youth

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The historic visit of US President Barack Obama to Jamaica is a subject that we will return to from time to time over the next several days as Jamaicans savour the satisfaction of having hosted such a powerful politician on our soil.Today, we zoom...

Blue Mountain blues

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMTony Deyal

Regardless of how far-fetched, ridiculous, obscene or even groaningly gruesome a pun is, I have time for it. Even the one about the Bizarro Doctor to the little Bizarro Kid: "Hey, I haven't seen you for more than a year. You certainly gruesome!"...

Jamaica too good for Carifta Games?

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMOrville Higgins

A few months ago, netball president Marva Bernard made the announcement that maybe Jamaica had outgrown the regional netball competition and that the JNA may well have to look at other tournaments to send our teams.

Editorial: How Yvette Clarke might help -­ again

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

A little commented on, but quite relevant, aspect of Barack Obama’s visit for Jamaica was revealed immediately on his landing at Kingston’s Norman Manley Airport. Right behind him, as he stepped out of Air Force One...

You don't have to swing to beat up gays

Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMGraeme Reid

President Obama's visit to Jamaica presented a good opportunity for him to discuss Jamaica's human rights record, including the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, during bilateral talks with the prime minister.When gay-...

Obama's Caribbean legacy

Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AM

So after all that work paving the highway between Harbour View and the cement company, and after removing the food vendors from the area of the Harbour View roundabout, President Obama did not pass that way at all! But I am not complaining! I have...

We have a lot to learn from Obama

Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The deodorant bar has been raised. Recently, I discovered a new trend in underarm perspiration protection. Makers of these hygiene products have put their best Ivy League scientists to work and they have come up with 48-hour protection deodorants....

Name a Road after Barack Obama

Published:Wednesday | April 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMDevon Dick

Yesterday, Barack Obama, president of the United States of America, arrived in Jamaica for a state visit which is historic. Obama is the first US president of African origin to visit Jamaica and is deserving of a road being named after him. Obama...

Dr Albert Lue: Medical Marijuana, the Way to Go

Published:Wednesday | April 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMDr Albert Lue

For the past decades, Jamaica has been in a downward economic spiral and the trend continues year after year. Looking back 30 years, real per capita GDP averaged only one per cent, making Jamaica one of the slowest-growing developing countries in...

President Obama’s Visit to Jamaica: Doubling Down on Climate Security Collaboration

Published:Wednesday | April 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMOliver-Leighton Barrett

President Obama is making a short but historic trip to Kingston, Jamaica, on the eve of the Summit of the Americas to be held in Panama (April 10-11). During his visit, Obama will meet with the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM...

Editorial: Obama must stand firm on nuclear deal

Published:Wednesday | April 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

In America's dysfunctional domestic politics, its advantage to Barack Obama is psychological rather than practically functional. But regional leaders should tell him, nonetheless, that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its member states support...

Tunisian President on a two-day visit to France.

Published:Wednesday | April 8, 2015 | 9:32 AMAP

Seaga wrong on senators’ loyalty

Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

In his latest piece (Sunday Gleaner, April 5, 2015), Edward Seaga, former prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, claims to see an "utterly dangerous paradox" that is recognised by neither the Constitutional Court nor the Court of...

Obama and exonerating Marcus Garvey

Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMRupert Lewis

President Obama's visit to Jamaica and the meeting between the president and Jamaica's prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, provides a unique opportunity for the plea to exonerate Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first National Hero.The case against...

Stand firm against gay activists, Madam PM

Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMShirley Richards

I write in response to a letter written by Jason Latty-Travis under the title 'Do the right thing, Prime Minister'. The background for this letter was the incident in New York in which the prime minister stoutly stood up to gay-rights activists.Mr...

Editorial: Obama’s visit: tempering expectations

Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and her Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues must enter their talks with President Barack Obama tomorrow with realistic expectations, recognising the limits of what he can, or may be, willing to do. But that...

Editorial: CARICOM’s case in the trade data

Published:Monday | April 6, 2015 | 12:00 AM

When Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders meet Barack Obama in Kingston this week, they will not be without good reason, and ample ammunition, to advance their case for the US president to accelerate the recalibrated relationship he promised in...

Jamaica lost in translation

Published:Sunday | April 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMParthe Edwards

Tiny Singapore has shown us how, by dint of hard work, discipline and re-educating minds, its people were able to throw off the shackles of colonialism and, in a few decades, propel a small island state from Third World to First World status.

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