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Published:Thursday | July 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ON MONDAY, Patrick White, who holds a doctorate in engineering and led research groups at Bell Laboratories, said Christianity was losing the race against science...

Published:Thursday | July 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

One of the uncomfortable facets of democracy is having to accept the right of the majority to make bad decisions. As we expected, that is what teachers have done with the election of Doran Dixon as their president-in-waiting....

Published:Thursday | July 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

How will the impending increase in the Highway 2000 toll rates affect you? Old Harbour mi sey, from Saturday - plus, every car I drive uses less gas when I drive through Old Harbour....

Published:Thursday | July 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

FOR SOME strange reason, it seems we have been bewitched to think that if we field enough blame on one group of people, then all our problems will be solved...

Published:Wednesday | July 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Last week, The Gleaner's guest columnist, theologian Clinton Chisholm, made some injudicious comments that compel me to respond. His first comment concerned denigrating statements about Minister Lisa Hanna...

Published:Wednesday | July 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We hail the courage with which the athlete Novlene Williams-Mills has confronted her breast cancer and her decision to speak out as a survivor. If there is anything to be disappointed about...

Published:Wednesday | July 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

This newspaper thanks Ms Lisa Hanna, the minister of youth and culture, for reopening, however clumsily, the debate on abortion in Jamaica.But it is high time that Jamaica moves beyond talk...

Published:Wednesday | July 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The Gleaner's editorial on June 26, 2013 titled 'You should worry, Mr Thwaites' commented on the reaction of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the People's National Party (PNP) to the education minister's presentation during the Sectoral...

Published:Wednesday | July 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The simple request from the manager at the government department was for the eager young officer to craft a media release around the successful court action brought against a man who had breached a longstanding act on the law books.The instruction was...

Published:Tuesday | July 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

There is no doubt that abortion is murder. There is no doubt that abortionists tell lies. There is no doubt that it does tremendous harm to women....

Published:Tuesday | July 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Commencing with the Gun Court law in 1974, our Parliament has consistently passed new legislation that, if breached, can land those found guilty with double-digit sentences...

Published:Tuesday | July 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We are hardly surprised at the outrage of the likes of François Hollande and Angela Merkel over America's reported bugging of European Union offices in New York and Washington and, perhaps, even Brussels...

Published:Tuesday | July 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The issue of revised legislation to expand access to safe abortion services has been returned to the public agenda by Ms Lisa Hanna, minister of youth and culture, in her presentation during the Sectoral Debate on the national Budget....

Published:Monday | July 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Most people remember the Concorde as the most powerful passenger jet ever produced. Its maiden commercial flight was in January 1976 and its final flight was in October 2003 - following a fiery crash. It could cruise at 2,160kph (1,350mph). In other words, it was extremely fast.

Published:Monday | July 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Every generation must have a Samuel, otherwise the Church will be set back immeasurably. If there is not a strong spiritual leader, the people will perish. The fact that the Philistines are not afraid to attack or march against the Church is a clear indication...

Published:Monday | July 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

If the late reggae icon Bob Marley were alive today, indications are that he would be banished behind bars for the very same reason for which we have showered accolades.For make no bones about it, Bob, the social com-mentator, sounded quite contentious...

Published:Monday | July 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The rest of the story may be apocryphal. It is, however, fact that the fence and outer walls of the adult correctional centre along South Camp Road in Kingston used to be painted red...

Published:Monday | July 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Witnessing the rout of a core bulwark of Judaeo-Christian religious dogma is truly rare. The first time this occurred was in the 15th century when Copernicus, followed by Galileo, challenged and defeated the Genesis-inspired myth that the earth ...

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

It is the season of graduations. Students are at the important stage where they have completed a major part of the education process. For the purposes of this crystal ball gauging, let us focus on the exit from secondary school.

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Whenever I hear pronouncements on our governments' 'vision' to make Jamaica a developed country by the year 2030, I am reminded of the old Scottish joke in which someone asks for directions and receives the answer, "If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here."

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Minister Lisa Hanna is absolutely right. It's high time for us to review the backward law that turns women into criminals because they choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. The law also criminalises medical doctors and unlicensed practitioners of various sorts who assist women in getting abortions.

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

We are unclear whether the Jamaica Labour Party will participate in the proposed commission of inquiry into the May 2010 operation by the security forces in Tivoli Gardens, during which nearly 80 civilians were killed.

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2013 | 12:00 AM

If the PIOJ measured triviality and narcissism as well as they chart inflation, economic growth, and devaluation, I suspect we would learn that there's been lots and lots of growth over the years since Independence.

Published:Saturday | June 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The Noise Abatement Act is back on the agenda, revived most recently by freshmen parliamentarians Keith Walford of St Ann and Richard Parchment of St Elizabeth.

Published:Saturday | June 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:As vice-president of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), I am cautioning Youth Minister Lisa Hanna and the PNP-controlled Parliament against changing Jamaica's abortion law based on US studies that cannot be generalised but show mere...

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