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Published:Sunday | November 23, 2014 | 12:00 AM

With two years left in office and ineligible for re-election, Barack Obama perhaps has a sense of freedom. He can do things with the calculation about the potential personal costs in the next campaign.

Published:Sunday | November 23, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The definition of 'poor people's money' will vary in direct relation to who is the beneficiary.

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2014 | 5:35 PM

I was still a child when I discovered that the word 'board' had more than one meaning.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 12:59 PM

With two years left in office and ineligible for re-election, Barack Obama perhaps has a sense of freedom.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 7:49 PM

On a visit to the US some time ago, I got into quite an argument with a Jamaican who wants to come back home to live one of these days.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 8:09 PM

Before the prime minister answered questions in Parliament two Tuesdays ago, I was of the view that the National Housing Trust (NHT) boar

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 8:51 PM

The definition of 'poor people's money' will vary in direct relation to who is the beneficiary.

Published:Sunday | November 23, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Before the prime minister answered questions in Parliament two Tuesdays ago, I was of the view that the National Housing Trust (NHT) board had made an error of judgement and bought a tourist attraction.

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 3:12 PM

The multimillion-dollar refurbishment of the Ocho Rios cruise ship pier has started to pay dividends with the facility winning the World

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Knowledge is key. Propaganda, ideology and unbelief kill us. Few of us know that the two intellectual giants of the second half of the 20th century are not to be found in the think tanks of the Western or Soviet worlds, the inner chamber of war cabinets, the universities or armies or corporate rooms; they are the leaders of two small islands, one in the West, the Caribbean, and the other in the East, South East Asia.

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The operators of the popular radio station for young people, Zip FM, might be interpreted as promoting violence in the impressionable minds of young listeners.

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The multimillion-dollar refurbishment of the Ocho Rios cruise ship pier has started to pay dividends with the facility winning the World Travel Awards (WTA) after being lauded as the Caribbean's Leading Cruise Destination for 2014.

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I am writing in response to a letter that was published ('Leave me the hell alone, Digicel!') in The Gleaner on Friday, November 21, 2014 regarding text notifications from Digicel.

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Australia is not called Down Under for nothing. Australian porn star, Angela White, who has a first-class honours degree in gender studies from the University of Melbourne, shot a scene for a pornographic movie in May with her partner.

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I must express my profound appreciation to a Corporal X (highway patrol - Portmore leg) for his display of commitment to curbing the practice of speeding, which has resulted in countless road fatalities both here and abroad.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Frequently, the truth is not always what the majority believe, and Martin Henry's article, 'Media, mob and Outameni madness' (Sunday Gleaner, November 16, 2014), is the very example of this admonition.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

News that 75 per cent of National Housing Trust (NHT) contributors will be unable to qualify for housing benefits points to an oppressive and unjust institution that is intrinsically atheistic by nature.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Maybe the most relieved man on the park after Jamaica's penalty-kick victory over Trinidad and Tobago to win the Caribbean Cup was coach Winfried Schäfer.

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2014 | 12:25 PM

Continuing its anti-religion campaign, on Wednesday, November 5, The Gleaner treated us to 'Prayer is pointless' by guest columnist Dr Et

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2014 | 12:56 PM

Shameful,

Mr Shaw

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2014 | 12:58 PM

Maybe the most relieved man on the park after Jamaica's penalty-kick victory over Trinidad and Tobago to win the Caribbean Cup was coach

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2014 | 1:29 PMDonna Mattis

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There are many reasonable and rational people who believe - wrongly, we hope - that Audley Shaw, mainly for the sake of self-vindication, wishes for Jamaica's reform agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to fail and for the economy to crash and burn.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Continuing its anti-religion campaign, on Wednesday, November 5, The Gleaner treated us to 'Prayer is pointless' by guest columnist Dr Ethon Lowe. One is not sure of Dr Lowe's expertise on the subject, but one hopes the good doctor knows more about medicine than he knows about prayer.

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