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Published:Sunday | April 28, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The minister never told us how he would achieve what he described as the ultimate objective of his reform agenda: "to reverse the long-term trend of low growth and declining productivity which has come to characterise the Jamaican economy".

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Last Monday was Earth Day, and one of the big issues environmentalists took up is the foul problem of disposable diapers.

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Published in last Sunday's Gleaner were findings that Jamaican legislators were among the worst paid in the region.

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2013 | 12:00 AM

They spent far too much time on disingenuous claims about the policy options available to the Government, as well the causes for the current perils faced by Jamaica's economy.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

National Hero Alexander Bustamante must be turning in his grave as this shredded stub of the Jamaican flag was seen on a flag pole of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union headquarters on Duke Street, Kingston.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

A police superintendent has this week confirmed what was often rumoured about girls who have been reported missing from inner-city communities. According to Deputy Superintendent Steven Moodie, some teenage girls living in such neighbourhoods are sent away by their mothers to the country, or to relatives elsewhere, to get them out of harm's way. These girls are then reported missing.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Any attempt to abolish preliminary enquiries is unreasoned and ill-conceived and can only do injustice.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I guess I should be accustomed by now to the various means the Government uses to extract money from us, but I was totally taken aback by the blatant fraud being committed by the Half-Way Tree Post Office.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:As I sat in Gordon House on April 23 and 25 and listened to our politicians hurl insults at each other, I couldn't help but think about some of my unruly students who I encounter every day.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

"So what exactly is the point at tissue?" I asked my friend who had called to draw my attention to a toilet paper war supposedly raging between Jamaica and Trinidad. He expected my response and said it is no laughing matter, as, like the Myrie and cement incidents, it is likely to reach the Caribbean Court of Justice where the judges may have to sit on the matter.

Published:Saturday | April 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I visited a friend on April 22 as she planned on celebrating Earth Day by planting a tree, avid gardener that she is. However beautiful her garden may be, the stench from a nearby gully could not inveigle me to stay and enjoy the visual delights of her pristine and verdant flower beds.

Published:Friday | April 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Chris Gayle's astonishing 175 not out in the IPL is still being widely talked about.The innings itself is astonishing enough: 175 from 66 balls with 17 sixes is unheard of, and the admission by Chris that he "slowed down" in the middle is mind-boggling.

Published:Friday | April 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

George W.Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all, and those of us who said that he was owe him an apology. Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction. We just didn't read the small print.

Published:Friday | April 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

After Phillip Paulwell's intervention in the Budget Debate on Wednesday, this newspaper wouldn't be surprised if officials at the International Monetary Fund are suspicious about Jamaica's commitment to the economic programme it has agreed with...

Published:Friday | April 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I am going to make a big assumption: that well-thinking Jamaicans agree that what we need now is more discipline, not less...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Recently, Peter Bunting, minister of national security, expressed the belief that divine intervention has a role in crime fighting, by way of touching the hearts of a wide cross section of Jamaicans.

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I CHOOSE to see Minister of National Security Peter Bunting's revelatory moment of unscripted humanity as a leap of intuitive understanding, an epiphany...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IT ISN'T uncommon for people who shape public opinion in Jamaica to disparage the poor. They often express envy for the central, rhetorical and exploitative place ...

Published:Thursday | April 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica, for all practical purposes, has an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It will be merely formalised by the fund's executive board at their meeting on May 1...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

This newspaper is grateful to the Rev Eniola Davis and high-school principal Ruel Reid for their unvarnished bits of truth-telling this week, which, hopefully, will help to reignite, and deepen, the necessary discussion on reproductive health issues in...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Last week, the entire world was gripped by the deadly bombing of the Boston Marathon. Many commentators said finding those responsible for killing three people and wounding more than 170 others would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

I read with interest the Rev Dr Devon Dick's brief remarks (published in this newspaper on April 11, 2013) about my book, Agency of the Enslaved, launched at Ardenne High School on March 23.I take some delight in the good reverend's attentiveness to my...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The security guard was on his regular patrol of the food court and adjacent areas at the Sagicor Shopping Centre in Spanish Town, St Catherine...

Published:Wednesday | April 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Do you agree with the Rev Eniola Davis that the morning-after pill should be promoted more among young people? Where do these people come from respectfully? The dinosaur age? No, we need comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights...

Published:Tuesday | April 23, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Idle chatter, driven by misinformation and misguided party loyalty, regarding whether an MP's actions affect his position as a government minister abounds....

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