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Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I read with some amount of dismay the article, 'Judge should have given basis of Kern ruling', by Paula Llewellyn, published on Friday, April 4, 2014.The calling of 20 witnesses and having 85 exhibits admitted in evidence is no basis for asserting, as...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Politicians and executives at all levels need to come out of their comfort zones and their current lifestyles and go into one or a few of the developing nations and live with poor in the depressed and deeply poverty-stricken areas...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

In Jamaica, a bun may be a flour-based, spicy baked product, but it could also mean being sexually unfaithful...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

As a child, I loved fairy tales. Bible stories, on the other hand, were, I was told, factual accounts not to be scoffed at or questioned, or the consequence would be to burn in hell for eternity....

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

One of the brightest stars in the Caribbean's intellectual galaxy has disappeared into the black hole of the unknown - but not before illuminating countless mortals, each of whom still carries a spark from that radiance.

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

One of the constraining factors to the development of the Caribbean, this newspaper believes, is an absence of self-belief.

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

In The Sunday Gleaner of April 6, 2014, a poem titled 'Putin's problem' was published and attributed to Tresha-Gaye Ustanny.We regret the insulting expressions about the head of a foreign state that lost 27 million of its people by protecting the world...

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

A couple of times during the life of the previous People's National Party administration, and since they returned to office, the Jamaican Parliament passed resolutions condemning America's long-enduring trade embargo...

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

'DNA-profiling technology is not a panacea to crime solving'.

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

At Parliament's behest, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) conducted a study of fees charged by the commercial banks operating in Jamaica.

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

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is suffering from a terrible case of performance anxiety.

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

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Kevin Harvey, revealed that 80 per cent of Jamaican women were overweight when he appeared before Parliament's PAC.

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

Hope Pastures is a residential area in Kingston 6 that has been in existence since the 1960s, but many roads in Hope Pastures have been in darkness for more than a year despite the unique feature of an underground power supply.

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

Now that Jamaican athletes Sherone Simpson and Asafa Powell have each received an 18-month suspension by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), shouldn't the manufacturer of the Epiphany D1 supplement stand some litigation?

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

The newspapers often referred to my departed colleague and head of the Public Relations Division of the prime minister's office when I was employed there in the Eric Williams days, George John, as the 'doyen' of Caribbean journalism.

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

The infuriating brazenness with which looters descended on a crashed delivery truck on Mount Rosser in St Catherine this week is just another example of how depraved our citizens have become. The incident should have opened up the eyes to how much social order has declined in our country so that it is acceptable to victimise a victim.

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

With the death on Wednesday of Norman Girvan, aged 72, Jamaica and the Caribbean have lost a towering intellect who felt that scholarship ought not to be an end in itself.

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

I have been on record as saying that Barcelona of a few years ago were the best team I have ever watched play football.

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

The strategy flexi-week advocates are using to push their agenda is to make it look as if the only objections to their scheme come from persons the Gleaner editor described last Wednesday as "religious fundamentalists".

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

It seems to me that the 'lot' of the poor these days is becoming increasingly worse.

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

It appears many of us, even very learned among us such as administrators and senior faculty at universities, want nothing to do with homosexuality, so much so that if female students role play a heterosexual marriage, it is reason enough to punish...

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

AS A privately financed institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is entitled to establish criteria for the enrolment of students and the code of behaviour to which they must...

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

ANYONE WITH a sense of history will, like us, be saddened at the announcement that the Alpha Boys' School will close its residential facility later this year. Happily, however, Alpha Boys' will continue as a day school....

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

In the aftermath of Resident Magistrate (RM) Judith Pusey upholding the no-case submission made by attorneys-at-law K.D. Knight and Deborah Martin for former Member of Parliament Kern Spencer ...

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

After two decades of public discussion and debate, a bill for the establishment of the flexible workweek in Jamaica has been taken before the island's Parliament.True to form, some people, mainly religious...

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