Commentary

On July 1, 2014, your paper carried an article by Shawn Harrison titled 'Don't criticise what you don't understand, son'. In his column, Mr Harrison seeks to put things into perspective ...

Recent events raise questions about our independence and sovereignty. The United States and Britain have weighed in on the matter of our commissioner of police...

If we didn't want to hear what Christine Lagarde and her IMF imperialist cronies have to say, Jamaica could just have rejected their money from back in 2010 and sent them on their way.We've heard "I can't recall" so many times about that 2010 period...

Those who advocate against the recognition of equal rights for sexual and gender minorities, most commonly referred to under the umbrella term 'LGBT', usually do so by using slick propaganda, unsubstantiated facts...

I was in a minibus travelling to Westmoreland from Kingston Monday afternoon, June 30, 2014. Someone saw it fit to light a fire in the bushes along Highway 2000, the same reason for the countless accidents that have happened on this road every year.

I am writing in response to Gordon Swaby's letter that was published in The Gleaner on July 3, 2014. We thank Mr Swaby for taking the time to voice his concerns and would like to use this forum to clarify some of the issues raised by him.

Just over a week ago, Brian Pengelley was elected for a fourth and, he suggested, final year as president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA).

There is a very important anniversary which we in the Caribbean celebrate today: the fourth of July. I don't know what you're thinking, but I am talking about the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas that established CARICOM 41 years ago...

As last Sunday's anti-gay rally organised by evangelical Christians confirmed, Brendan Bain's sacking by the University of the West Indies, and its supposed implication for free speech, was merely a springboard for something more significant...

There is a view held by many Jamaicans that every individual is or has to be attached to one political party or the other...

Peter Bunting and Owen Ellington must know that no one believes they are telling the truth, or at least are giving the whole story, about the latter's dramatic decision to retire as commissioner of police.Indeed, it has quickly developed into a parlour...

So Owen Ellington has retired as police commissioner with immediate effect. This decision comes 24 days before his 52nd birthday. It comes a full month shy of what would have been his 34th year as a member of the police force and four full years since his appointment as commissioner....