It's not good, and perhaps says much, that Horace Dalley is perceived as something as an afterthought in Jamaica's finance ministry, and that the name Veniece Pottinger-Scott elicits either a blank stare or a...
Given Peter Phillips' resoluteness and propensity to focus, I never doubted that the Government would do whatever it took to meet the quantitative targets set under its agreement with the IMF.
Football fans planning to travel to Brazil for the World Cup should heed the warning of the health ministry to get vaccinated against yellow fever and measles and consider stocking up on antimalarial drugs as well.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller doesn't need Julian Robinson's committee to provide solutions to the thievery of more than 15 per cent of electricity produced by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), or the equivalent of 26 per cent...
The stripping of the West Indies Test captaincy from Darren Sammy, and his subsequent resignation from the longest format of the game, is more significant in the evolving story of Caribbean cricket than the casual observer may believe...
Worn with pride (like a badge of prosperity) and obviously good for his ego, the large abdominal girth of the Jamaican male was (and still is) highly prized in a country where anything big is better (bigger SUVs, bigger houses, etc.).
We expect the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), the light and power company, will back off in the face of the warning from the regulators that it can't just shut off power for long periods in those communities where at least...
Every so often we talk about the problems in the education system. We lament about how it is littered with a plethora of avoidable challenges that we have been discussing for several years with little or no action....
After reading Jaevion Nelson's Gleaner article 'Political myopia: Opposition squandering its opportunity', my concerns about people's inability to make objective assessments, without carrying the weight of political prejudices on their shoulders...
On Monday, A.W. Sangster ended his letter to the editor by asking four questions related to senior magistrate Judith Pusey's no-case submission in the Kern Spencer light bulb case. Apparently, Sangster disagrees with Pusey's ruling ...
We share the concerns of paying customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) whose electricity will be turned off for half the day in the JPS's latest effort to combat electricity theft.
The chickens, all dozen of them, have come home to roost. And they are moving their bowels from the tree branch that hangs over that section of the clothes line on which our Govern-ment has hung its finest linen...
Children locked away in juvenile institutions receive woefully inadequate education from the Government. They receive sparse instruction on a limited number of subjects in toxic learning environments.....
In the Old Testament, Nehemiah convinces the Persian ruler Artaxerxes to let him rebuild Jerusalem. But to get from Persepolis to Judah, he asks the king to write letters to the governors beyond the river, that they must permit me to pass through....
I thoroughly enjoyed myself on April 26, as I read a letter to the editor titled 'I dare you - make me vote'.The author was 2013 Domino Award winner (Rising Star Journalist of the Year), the beautiful and talented Patria-Kaye Aarons...
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), it seems, has a problem of communicating with itself. And that, the JFF"s president, Captain Horace Burrell, will agree is a very bad thing...
In an article captioned 'Pryce defends changes at Sydney Pagon High School' in The Sunday Gleaner of May 11, 2014, Raymond Pryce, the member of parliament of North East St Elizabeth, was quoted as having said the transformation of Sydney Pagon...
There is no time like the present. Make hay while the sun shines. Put your best foot forward. These sayings are extremely important for young women with both professional and personal ambitions, that is, women who want their heart to pulse ...
Largely lost in the noise and gloating over Phillip Paulwell's seeming defeat and forced retreat on the 381-megawatt power project was his manly apology to the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) over remarks which, if acted upon, could only have...
More often than not, whenever I ask for the paternal family history, I get a blank stare or a reply telling me that they know very little or absolutely nothing about their father and his side of the family...
Jamaica has way too many single mothers and absentee fathers, and we are seeing the deleterious effects of that void in society today. As a matter of fact, a recent report by UNICEF stated that father absence was the "single largest social issue of our time"...
