Commentary

I can understand why a man would smash his fist into a woman's face. I can understand it. But I don't like it.I can understand why feelings of awesome, supreme power engulf a man in confrontation with a woman and cause him to raise his foot and...

It is not the kind of event that stirs popular imagination and has people dancing in the streets. But the observation in 2015, launched last week, of four decades of formal cooperation between Jamaica and the European Union is a significant...

My love of satire was born and nurtured by my teenage addiction to Mad Magazine.To the creative team at Mad Magazine, no topic was off limits. My favourite section was 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' by a comic genius named Al Jaffee. It should...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) notes the contents of two columns published in The Sunday Gleaner of January 18 and 25, 2015 titled, 'Are insurance customers treated fairly? Parts 1 and 2', written by Cedric Stephens.The FSC's mandate is to...

Few people anywhere can have been as good and as successful at what they do as was Glen Archer. He produced spelling champions.Over the last 29 years, he coached 27 of the winners in The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition, 19 of whom...

Government tax revenues have been running behind Budget in the majority of months since the start of fiscal 2014-15. At the end of December 2014, tax revenues for the nine months trailed Budget by $9.7 billion, causing the Government to miss the $...

As is its right, and as is reasonable and sensible in the context of a rules-based arrangement, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the light and power provider, has appealed the recent electricity tariff determination by the industry's...

Miss Lou dead an gone. Bot wi naa figet weh shi do fi big up fi wi Jamaica culture.