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Published:Sunday | July 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Christine Lagarde came calling last month. And in an uncharacteristically celebratory tone, she hoisted Jamaica as a shining example of how an economy in recovery should be managed. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief declared its Jamaican economic recovery programme, so far, an overwhelming success.

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Owen Ellington has had a four-year leadership role in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). He is generally seen as having had a successful tour of duty. The conditions that led to his premature departure are still shrouded in mystery. His retirement is clearly not of his own doing. He jumped.

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

History has it that in March 1904, a large statue of Jesus Christ was erected in the Uspallata Pass on what is now the Pan American Highway...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Images of nurses dressed in their crisp, white uniforms demonstrating about lack of water at the country's only maternity hospital have forced this newspaper to return to the issue of the current water crisis....

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Phillip Paulwell's proposal for a broad stakeholder dialogue on the future of Jamaica's bauxite-alumina industry is a timely idea that has our support, so long as the exercise is pursued with the kind of rigour and inclusiveness intended by this...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

A few months ago, I attended a meeting at which the chairperson announced the egalitarian credentials of her organisation...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I first met Dennis Vernon Daly in 1970 when I was employed as a clerk of courts at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Sutton Street, Kingston....

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I am almost experiencing withdrawal symptoms. By Sunday, the World Cup will be over and we will be spending the next four years rehashing what took place in this year's tournament. I have been 'carrying' Argentina from the start of the tournament ...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Phillip Paulwell's proposal for a broad stakeholder dialogue on the future of Jamaica's bauxite-alumina industry is a timely idea that has our support, so long as the exercise is pursued with the kind of rigour and inclusiveness intended by this...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

A few months ago, I attended a meeting at which the chairperson announced the egalitarian credentials of her organisation...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I first met Dennis Vernon Daly in 1970 when I was employed as a clerk of courts at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Sutton Street, Kingston....

Published:Friday | July 11, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I am almost experiencing withdrawal symptoms. By Sunday, the World Cup will be over and we will be spending the next four years rehashing what took place in this year's tournament. I have been 'carrying' Argentina from the start of the tournament ...

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM

We can only assume that the Simpson Miller administration's notice of intent to rescind UC Rusal's bauxite mining concessions for two of its Jamaica alumina refineries - Alpart and Kirkvine - is a strategic move aimed primarily at enhancing its efforts...

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM

With the sudden resignation of Owen Ellington as commissioner of police, there have been suggestions of many names to replace Ellington, but none has mentioned Novelette Grant.

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Gleaner editorial of July 03, 2014 asks the question, In whose CAUSE? and answers the question in the body of the editorial....

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:Minister DalLey reinvigorated discussions among public-sector workers concerning productivity and salary when he announced in Parliament on July 8, 2014, the planned commencement of wage negotiations with unions representing civil...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

My bright and bashful eight-year-old daughter becomes nine in a few months and I had promised to explain to her one of the most important life mysteries as part of her 'coming of age'...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Not so long ago, a group of concerned clergy published ‘A Call for Unity’, an open letter urging their communities to obey existing Jim Crow laws. Fortunately, the letter was smuggled into a Birmingham jail cell...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There would be nothing retrograde, as Dick Hibbert, a one-time deputy commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), claims, to recruit globally for a police chief to succeed Owen Ellington, whose dramatic decision to go into early retirement was...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

This is an open letter to the executive director of Devon House, Janette Taylor, by a Kingston 10 resident writing under the nom de plume, Right to Sleep.I am writing once again to try to get some practical and effective action regarding the great...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The health minister, Dr Fenton Rudyard Ignatius Ferguson, is a thoroughly decent man. As the country's 11th minister of health, Dr Ferguson has rarely, if ever, been less than honest and statesmanlike in his 36 years in politics...

Published:Tuesday | July 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

In the same way Ronald Mason is willing to fight against the Caribbean integration movement, as evidenced by his latest column 'Independence and sovereignty' (Sunday Gleaner, July 6,...

Published:Tuesday | July 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Justin Felice is a British policeman. In Jamaica, by all accounts, he has done a first-class job of improving our investigatory capabilities....

Published:Tuesday | July 8, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Events at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit in Antigua & Barbuda last week may have heralded the emergence of a Christian fundamentalist movement, with its inspiration, if not formal leadership, in Jamaica, as a pan-Caribbean political...

Published:Monday | July 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

My fellow Jamaicans, we are now embroiled in a war. On June 2 this year, I published an article titled ‘Calling all church folk’, in which I shared my impression that "a disproportionate amount of fire and brimstone is directed by the Church at the LGBT community...

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