Whistleblower Ed Snowden has excellent marketing skills, because despite the massive media attention given to his revelation that the US government's National Security Administration (NSA) is collecting 'metadata' on its citizens, it just confirmed what...
Peter Phillips has, quite refreshingly, spoken a lot in recent years of the political and economic wrong turns that Jamaica has taken over the last half-century and of how we have squandered our Independence.
The circumstances surrounding Vanessa Wint's November 21, 2012 suicide at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre were highlighted in recent Sunday Gleaner publications.
It is genuinely heartening that some 600 Jamaicans travelled from their adopted homes, principally in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, to participate in the 5th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference in Montego Bay.
The Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) is proud to celebrate with Senator Floyd Emerson Morris on his recent election as president of the Jamaican Senate.
Six minutes and two seconds of video footage depicting those purported to be our future. I am shuddering, crying, pleading with God for mercy. I heard two days ago the story of a 13-year-old killed, allegedly, by a 14-year-old, and in less than an hour I watched the horror unfold. Multimedia spares no one.
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this, and up to today, as every cat lover knows, nobody owns a cat. As one wise man said, "There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."
Happily, the public has been provided with a discussion draft of the terms of reference for the commission of enquiry into the Tivoli Gardens military-led operation in May 2010.
It is indeed timely that the debate and conversations be reopened concerning safe and legal abortions, in the assurance of a woman's reproductive rights. Maybe terms such as pro-life and pro-choice should remain in their political categories...
It seems like this Government is waging an all-out war against the Church on several fronts at the same time.The Ministry of Labour is introducing flexiweek legislation, which will remove the holiness from the Lord's Day...
Occasionally, Everald Warmington contrives a compelling argument, such as his observation this week about the utter boredom and general lack of usefulness of Parliament's so-called Sectoral Debate."I can't," Mr Warmington...
Over the course of the past week, two things hit home forcefully. One was the undying love and affection held by the Jamaican people for Veronica Campbell-Brown. Since news of her adverse analytical finding emerged, people have been expressing...
In the June 2 edition of The Sunday Gleaner, Anthony Hylton, minister of industry, investment and commerce, admitted that he owed US$120,000 to Metry Seaga, deputy president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA)...
A development that could affect the economics of some of Jamaica's more prosperous Caribbean neighbours and, perhaps, the pocketbooks of some of our better-heeled citizens, passed largely unnoticed here last week.Ten of Britain's overseas territories...
The Lord tells us, 'Despise not a man in his old age; for we too shall become old.' Sirach 8:9.Yet, everywhere our missionaries go, we find the elderly...
Jamaica's legislators are apparently among the most unproductive globally.A mere 25 pieces of legislation are passed annually, despite the existence of several colonial laws, which have no place in an independent country in the 21st century...
The first sentence of C. Everard Palmer's 1984 adolescent-flavoured novel My Father Sun-Sun Johnson has been etched into my memory, perhaps forever. It says, simply, 'I was there when the blow fell.'...
Milton Samuda, the chairman of JAMPRO, is quick to identify what he asserts are position differences between myself and JLP Leader Andrew Holness on the current Diaspora Conference....
We confess to being more than a little bit perplexed that it took so long after the revelation of her positive test for a banned substance for Veronica Campbell-Brown to speak to the issue.
I refer to an article by Ms Esther Tyson, 'Jamaican Creole or Standard Jamaican English', which appeared in The Sunday Gleaner of June 2, 2013.To begin, I should like to allay Ms Tyson's fear that there is a "decreasing thrust to teach Standard Jamaican...
The article 'Jail juveniles for 48 hours max!' in The Gleaner (June 16, 2013) reports that UNICEF is reminding that under the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA), children should not be kept at a police station for more than 48 hours.It might be useful...
Well, this just won't do.Switching from radio station to radio station, trying to find something to listen to, often proves tedious these days, doesn't it? A little more variety, particularly in the local offerings, would go a long way.
On the night of June 2, the Observer carried an online report of a motor vehicle accident involving a High Court judge who, as a result, had been admitted to hospital.
