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Published:Thursday | August 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The last time this newspaper checked, there was no rush of capital into Jamaica - despite the efforts of the Government's investment promotion agency, JAMPRO.Last year, for instance, foreign direct investment (FDI), despite a two-thirds jump over ...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Schools do without government aid for repairsAvert math crisisWith a recent flash flood watch issued for low-lying and flood-prone areas of St Thomas, Kingston, St Andrew, St Catherine, Clarendon, and...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

This is an open letter to the people of Jamaica from the heartbroken family of Father Charles Brown.Dear People of JamaicaWe are the family of Father Charles Brown, lovingly known to many as 'Uncle Charles'.On July 24, the senseless murder and loss of...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Perhaps history will not record the final of Monday's 100 metres for women at the World Championships in Moscow the way I already have...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

For those who opt to listen keenly, place their noses to the grindstone or lift haughty, misplaced heads from under the proverbial sand, the ongoing rumblings in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) over its leadership are getting...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with their victories in the men's and women's 100 metres races, respectively, have so far been pre-eminent...

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

If I told you a media chairman had erased interview tapes made by journalists from his own media entity (and another) to prevent material freely given by interviewees but which might be embarrassing to them from being published...

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

He was a child; he was dancing at a party; he had on girly clothes, and thus he must be stabbed and shot to death. This sentence should read as a non-sequitur. Unfortunately, not in Jamaica...

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We prefer to believe that Mr Robert Pickersgill, the chairman of the People's National Party (PNP) and a senior minister in Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's Cabinet, misapprehends...

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

More than 1000 children missingBolt's 100m WinSpencer gets DQDay 3 of the IAAF World Championships was filled with many highs and lows for our followers on Twitter .The depth of Jamaica's 'sprint...

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I write in response to a column published in the In Focus section of The Sunday Gleaner on August 11, 2013 by Delano Franklyn, titled 'Jamaica haunted by drug scandal'.In the article, he expressed astonishment at the difference in figures presented ...

Published:Monday | August 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins." - Mark 2: 22

Published:Monday | August 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Drawings depicting periods covering slavery and Emancipation commonly showed slaves wearing rags (tattered clothing). They were physically and mentally enslaved for many centuries. Betrayed by their own kind...

Published:Monday | August 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Hopefully, there will be no need to test Phillip Paulwell's commitment to ensuring that there are no more hiccups in the bidding process for a new power plant aimed at delivering electricity significantly cheaper to Jamaica's burdened consumers....

Published:Monday | August 12, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Over the past few weeks, the matter of reparations for Caribbean slavery and native genocide has become very topical, and rightly so, because of the developments in CARICOM and the active media discussions carried out by ourown...

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IT IS for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to draw the wrong lesson from her party's defeat in last week's by-election for the Cassia Park division of the Kingston and St Andrew local government.

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WE HAVE spent the last 51 years as an independent nation doing the same things, the same way with very limited positive results. Our potential is often identified, but very rarely realised.

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I GOT several emails last week from angry people trying to persuade me that Dwayne Jones was responsible for his own murder. His crime was not cross-dressing.

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

AGAINST BETTER advice, I travelled to Denbigh with my father last week. It was ridiculously hot and many displays weren't encouraging. However, the whole trip was worth it because we had no sooner begun to walk around than a very pretty young lady approached earnestly and in good faith to introduce herself to someone she clearly recognised as a politician...

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE NETHERLANDS entered the 1960s on an economic high. Newly discovered North Sea oil and gas was injecting vast amounts of foreign revenues into the economy. Public expenditure and incomes soared and the Dutch currency strengthened.

Published:Saturday | August 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

DID THE people of Cassia Park do a stupid thing Thursday by electing the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Beverly Prince as their local representative?

Published:Saturday | August 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IF I told you to phub off, would you?

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean Premier League is on in earnest, and though it may be early days, all signs indicate that it will be a successful tournament....

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

If she has not done so as yet, Lisa Hanna, the minister with responsibility for culture, must establish clear protocols for artistes who accept invitations, or are paid, to perform at state-sponsored national events.Among these we list the show known as...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

My Thursday outings at the closest supermarket near my home are shopping trips I used to enjoy. These days, it has become an exercise in budgetary control. I now have to compare supermarkets Kingston-wide for special deals...

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