Commentary

I refer to your front-page article in The Gleaner dated December 16, 2013, titled 'Hunger pains'. It said 30 per cent of all children attending the island's public schools go to class hungry....

Anyone who ever heard Tessanne Chin didn't need her participation in NBC's 'Voice' to vindicate her prodigious talent.Her broad vocal range, and the ease with which she traverses the scales of a big, evocative voice that she manipulates with great...

Purges in Communist states have rarely stopped with the execution of one senior party member, especially when he has been tortured into 'confessing' at his show trial that he was planning to stage a coup using 'high-ranking military officers' and other...

Many are now crumbling under these hard times. Some are giving up and others are even taking their own lives! People are now realising that politicians are not representing the interests of the people they supposedly represent, but, instead, their own interests!

Heartiest congratulations to Aabuthnott-Gallimore High School on the attainment of its 40th anniversary milestone, and its growth and achievements over the years...

I was quite taken with the recent Las May cartoon of a broadly smiling Nelson Mandela ascending a stairway to a door labelled 'Freedom'...

Just like some people recall exactly where they were when JFK was assassinated, I recall vividly learning that there was such a place as apartheid South Africa, and such a man as Nelson Mandela locked in a cell. It was, literally, unbelievable.

We have successfully navigated the first quarterly test of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but the task before us is considerable. Do we have the resolve, the ability, to work together and to utilise the best people available? Can we set aside the tribalism, favouritism and greedy self-interest to put country and people first?

We all deal with pain in different ways. We say, "I feel your pain," knowing full well that we are all different and I can feel my pain extremely well and may feel what your pain may feel like, but can never really feel your pain.

The KSAC is on a roll. Not only has it done right by Sylvia Grant, it is doing something in Papine, the town in east St Andrew that has been allowed to go to rot....

Jamaica College's demolition job of the much-touted St Elizabeth Technical in the Olivier Shield play-off has once again raised the issue of the dominance that urban schools have enjoyed over their rural counterparts as far as schoolboy football ...

IT IS not, on reflection, surprising that only nine months into his papacy, Time Magazine chose Pope Francis as its Person of the Year.For as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis presides over a community of 1.2 billion who, in some...