In all societies, there is the need to have consensus as distinct from unanimity. In Jamaica, we have the strong tendency to do tomorrow what ought to be done today, or better yet, what should have been done yesterday.
History is, in a way, repeating itself at the National Workers' Union (NWU) - and again it is revealing a failure of leadership as well as scant adherence to rules by an organisation that supposedly has its foundation in the principle of democracy.
Everald Warmington, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member of parliament for South West St Catherine, has been getting backlash for his controversial "if you don't vote, you don't count" comments made at a JLP meeting.
The end of Ed Bartlett's pouting and his assumption of the shadow foreign minister's job sounds to us like more good news for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Like most Jamaicans who are into sports, I am following the cases with Sherone Simpson and Asafa Powell, eager to hear the verdicts.In Jamaica, people are entitled to the presumption of innocence until a judge or jury pronounces them guilty...
Judging from the responses to Keiran King's debut online column, 'Tessanne-mania is a national embarrassment', he might just be as popular as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Taliban, and Robert Mugabe.
AT FIRST glance, it is a dry budget story of a kind to which we are accustomed, and thus unlikely to have stirred too many emotions.But yesterday's piece, published by this newspaper, about Parliament's approval of the withdrawal of J$1.54 billion from...
There has been a deafening silence about a particular advertisement that was published in print earlier this year, which made an attempt to guilt us about our gluttony over the Christmas holidays, and at the same time encourage us to get our bodies ...
I write in response to a letter to the editor published under the caption 'Confusing Reports'. The writer suggests that statements from the minister of national security...
In January, Neville Barrett, C.Lloyd Allen and Julius Creary were buried. Neville was my brother-in-law being married to my sister, Marva. About a decade ago, at Marva's 50th birthday party, he sang the Paul Anka-written My Way...
Let's get one thing out of the way: Tessanne Chin can sing. Not like your sister-in-law in the church choir. This girl can grab a note and raise your ancestors with it.
Jamaicans are cussing more and more these days. People say it is because life's rough with the high cost of living, rising crime, and high unemployment. But guess what? Cussing may not only be an expression of agony, but also a means to alleviate it.
Among the more progressive and refreshing postures of the Simpson Miller administration has been its willingness to engage the private sector and its use of independent committees, with corporate leadership, to monitor projects critical to national...
After listening to the education minister's presentation in Parliament on the link between specific high schools and criminal convicts, I felt ashamed...
Yesterday in Brussels, Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union's (EU) commissioner for home affairs, issued the EU's first report on the 27-member community.
There is one question everybody should be asking tomorrow at the United Nations in Geneva, as a panel of experts reviews the Dominican Republic's human rights record: Why are they stripping hundreds of thousands of people of their nationality?...
When I read the piece by Orville Higgins, 'Anti-sports bias', in The Gleaner (31/1/14), the proverb, "Enough is as good as a feast," i.e., just the right amount is as good as more than enough - 'there is no value in excess'...
Some of the naïve nonsense written in support of the police survey used to condemn some schools as producing criminals makes me despair for debate in Jamaica.On Sunday, January 26, the Gleaner editorial and resident government apologist, Booklist Boyne,...
February is Reggae Month, when we celebrate a musical genre we gave to the world. Over the years, reggae artistes have hit number one on the charts in many countries, a category was created for the genre at the Grammy Awards, and reggae songs have appeared on the soundtracks of several major motion pictures.
When Dave Cameron heave-hoed his former mentor Julian Hunte out of the presidency of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), we had hoped that he would not only inspire a turnaround in the quality of the regional team, but restore the dignity of, and...
I have always appreciated the need for the preservation of our natural environment and I strongly support the work of our organisations working to make sure that our natural resources are not squandered...
I read with interest the Sunday Gleaner story 'Big butts equal big brains - Study finds that larger buttocks make for healthier, smarter women', published January 26, 2014.I had often wondered about my own progress in life but...
