Commentary

The well-respected educator, Dr Claude Packer, has called for a revolution in the teaching of mathematics in Jamaica, a subject with which Jamaicans students have long struggled.

Follow Carolyn Cooper's commentary in The Sunday Gleaner as she takes on the bank tax."I did think of Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice when I heard about the new bank tax imposed by the IMF.

All of a sudden, the PIIGS don't seem omnipresent. Or, they are not spoken of as often, or with the same sense of depredation of a few years ago.

THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), this week, engaged in a bit of high comedy by threatening to withdraw the environmental permits it granted merely a month ago to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) for the...

WITH AUDLEY Shaw, political jousting and bombast are almost ritual.So, no one should be surprised at his attack on the Government's economic policies and his conclusion that the Portia Simpson Miller administration and its finance minister, Peter...

Recently, Northern Caribbean University (NCU), a Seventh-day Adventist institution, explained that 21-year-old Sha-Shana James was given the greater punishment of suspension because she was responsible for the performance of the unapproved routine on...

As a nation, few would argue that we are not where we could be. Jamaica needs a politically engaged middle class as the corrective force. As a group, the middle class has often seemed unmoved by Jamaica's many societal problems...

This is a response from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM).INDECOM notes the errors in Gordon Robinson's column published on April 22, 2014 titled 'Premature adjudication'.

Once upon a domino table, Dessie, my right-hand opponent, posed double-six; Gene Autry played six-deuce; The Beast contributed deuce-four...

WISCONSIN, Madison (AP):A bill that would put outside agencies in charge of investigating officer-involved deaths could create conflict and confusion for Wisconsin agencies that have traditionally done it themselves, police observers say.The measure's...

With the recent upsurge in violence within our inner cities, I wondered if thugs live by any (criminal) code...

So yet another cop has killed himself, following fast on the heels of a policeman who, days earlier, killed his spouse and then himself. Unfortunately, these murder-suicides and attempts are not uncommon among our cops and now barely cause eyebrows to be raised among members ...