Published:Thursday | September 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir: Since political parties are national institutions and not private clubs, we expect the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to have a greater appreciation for democracy....
Published:Thursday | September 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM
Remembering Hurricane Gilbert'Tuffy', hero for BoyzHandcart licensing set for ChristmasThank you Jermaine; you are the perfect example of what it means to wait, seize and make the most of an...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
Our most precious commodities, our children, have now returned to school and are re-establishing themselves in a routine and readjusting to homework and increased responsibility after a summer ...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
CASE lecturer found deadExtortion menace downtownDeCarteret duo bags 26 distinctionsA productive person, contributing to the building of the nation, is killed.
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
When someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat, it's natural to be suspicious. Magicians are professionals in deceit - and so are diplomats. But sometimes the rabbit is real....
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
Reference is made to Dr Albert Lockhart's letter to the editor titled 'Clarifying school of marijuana', which was published in The Gleaner on September 4, 2013.While I have no problem or issues with a gentleman like Dr Lockhart (who I have been...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM
K.D. Knight is wrong in his diagnosis. It is beyond complacency. Nor is it cynicism. For that would have suggested that conscious thought is being given to a set of circumstances ...
Goodbye TassaniqueJLP needs repairs - Shaw'They're sick'[The] role of Government is to protect its people and we must play our part and stop supporting and turning a blind eye to 'almshouse', the...
Apologies seem in vogue. People are apologising who don't need to apologise.Others are apologising sincerely because they should. Still more are apologising insincerely because they must...
The 2013-2014 schoolboy football season has kicked off. For many youngsters, the training during the summer holidays was well worth the sacrifice since they now have the chance to show off their skills on the field. However, far too many of our youngsters continue to struggle...
It has been the better part of a month since Audley Shaw went public with his previously back-room campaign for the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).But he is yet to make the kind of case required, beyond personal ambition - which he claims...
Investment finance in Jamaica has generally lacked a structured framework or a systematic approach. Many small firms have accessed growth capital either through personal funds or from friends and family.
Reasonable people can disagree over whether the Goat Islands, off Jamaica's south coast, should be open to economic development or remain protected and left in their natural state.Indeed, just such an argument has begun...
There is nothing wrong with divestment, but it is critical for us to seek God and know with whom we must enter into any agreements, covenants or investments. When going into agreements with any other nation ...
At first sight of the picture of the very senior parliamentarian, seventy-something-year-old Minister of Government all hunched over and dominantly 'daggering' a willing female in some sort of gathering place, I could not believe my eyes...
Like the public-private sector committee it named to monitor Jamaica's agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this newspaper congratulates the Government for having met the targets for the programme's first quarter.
Leadership, if confronted with the deployment of a weapon of mass destruction, must not hesitate to respond. This is what I take from the picture of Minister Clarke launching a defensive assault on an orange-clad dancer. Yuh cannot back down jus' suh!
Jamaican bad words have a quite respectable pedigree. They usually refer to perfectly good female body parts and functions. But the language of these bad words is often of African origin. So it's almost impossible for some of us to fully appreciate the explosive power of a big, fat bad word. It's positive energy, not just negative.
Demand for development has persisted despite the fact that Jamaica's coastal areas are highly vulnerable to natural hazards such as hurricanes and storm surges.
For the umpteenth time, this newspaper is calling attention to the wanton disposal of litter, which is threatening to worsen the scar on the nation's face that today resembles a huge garbage dump....
A popular American television series on the ABC network, Switched at Birth, tells the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital.Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a...
Queen Ifrica's 'unfortunate' statement at the recent Grand Gala defending heterosexuality and nuclear family has been interpreted by others as an attack on homosexuality...
