Commentary

People ask me why I no longer write for The Gleaner.

AS THE saying goes, "You cannot compare apple to oranges", but apples may be compared to oranges when speaking about fruit! The same can be said about performance-enhancing drugs, where the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) packages anabolic steroids, diuretics, and stimulants under the same umbrella of 'drugs'.

Production figures released by the sugar industry indicate that the 2012-2013 crop fell short of projections by some 10,000 tonnes. Lower-than-expected performance was recorded at factories operated by Chinese firm Pan Caribbean Sugar Company (PCSC) at Frome, Monymusk and Bernard Lodge, which together account for 70 per cent of the sugar produced in the island.

As a public-health physician in residency training, I had the privilege of living and working in Kingston, Jamaica with the excellent Expanded Program on Immunisation on polio and measles eradication efforts, now more than 20 years ago.

If Ambassador Tommy Koh, special adviser at the Singapore Institute of Policy Studies, is right - that there is a strong correlation between zero corruption and economic development - then Jamaica's corner is dark indeed, for the perception ...

After Jenaae Jackson, first runner-up in the Miss Jamaica World pageant, was awarded the prize for 'best figure', Member of Parliament for North West St Ann Dr Dayton Campbell tweeted, "bout best shape, she shape like the Jamaican economy"....

Raymond Pryce, the governing People's National Party member of parliament (MP) for North East St Elizabeth, has placed on the table a legitimate issue worthy of rational discussion, rather than, as some have been...

Ms Beverly Hamilton, who died on July 17, 2013, spent her life as a freelance journalist, civil servant and a Garvey scholar...

Tommy Koh knows Jamaica well. A leading architect of the UN's convention on the Law of the Sea, Mr Koh has been a regular visitor to the island since the early 1980s....

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's proposal for drug testing of high-school student athletes should be fully and roundly embraced by all well-thinking Jamaicans, and endorsed by all athletes and track-and-field administrators....

Sometimes, you just don't see a blessing coming down the road - which makes it all the sweeter when it arrives.It arrived for me on a recent Sunday, when I sat among more than 700 women in the New Beulah Moravian Church in Mandeville.