Commentary

THE EDITOR, Sir:Your editorial of Sunday, January 26, does an effective job of summarising all the salient points that came out of the police survey among a very significant number of prison inmates, which indicated their socio-economic backgrounds,...

These are the highly anticipated Local Domino Awards. Buckle up. These awards are intended to be humorous. If you've no sense of humour, or its condition precedent, sense, avert your eyes. What follows may shock or offend you...

A lay magistrate is someone with limited judicial authority. A lay preacher is not an ordained minister but is a member of a church chosen to lead services...

Owen Ellington's declared willingness to allow an investigation into allegations, reported by this newspaper, that death squad(s) operate within the police force is welcome. Indeed, for the police chief to have done otherwise would have been to invite...

Excerpts of a ministry paper, 'A preventative initiative in schools to ameliorate Jamaica's crime problem', presented by Minister of Education, Ronald Thwaites, in Parliament last week....

It seems like the worldwide coverage of our bobsled team has the whole world going Jamaican! See? We're doing our part to keep the world happy.

Roger Clarke and the jolly band he leads at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries would do well to grasp this simple concept and ensure their brains are working properly before putting their mouths in gear.

The buzz being created around the proposed $10-billion logistics hub is getting louder, and with it, hopes that thousands of unemployed Jamaicans will find work in a dynamic business environment where manufacturers, suppliers and distributors come together to conduct international trade.

This newspaper is encouraged by the tone and posture of ownership of Jamaica's economic policy that is increasingly being adopted by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in the face of pushback by critics, who, if allowed their way, would undermine ...

THE EDITOR, Sir:We at Norman Manley High School were very disturbed, distraught, and disgruntled when we read your headline 'Prison schools' in The Gleaner of Wednesday, January 22, 2014.

Well over a decade ago, the matter of a shortage of psychiatrists in Jamaica's prisons and how this contributed to people being lost in the system was being hotly debated.The Government of the day, which happened to have been formed by the People's...

The government's payment this week of the equivalent of nearly US$1.7 million to Caribbean Cement Company for clinker it exported to Venezuela is an all-round positive development which we hope can be replicated by other firms.First, the arrangement...