Commentary

VENEZUELA'S MOST popular modern president, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, who first announced he had cancer of the pelvic region back in 2011 and has since undergone four operations, passed away Tuesday in a Caracas hospital.

It was disheartening and disappointing to read the editorial of Thursday, February 28, 2013, titled 'Truth will set free Catholic Church'...

This is an open letter to Jamaicans under 35. Our country needs us. These are dark days in the history of our wonderful land. Crime, poverty, debt and death have combined with devastating effect to gangrene Jamaica's metaphorical legs.

Once again horse racing's hot topic is the proposed divestment of Caymanas Track Limited (CTL).In 1989, at the Terra Nova Hotel, the then deputy prime minister, riding a wave of popularity after a recent general election victory...

THE EDITOR, Sir: There has been some recent discussion about the contribution which the arts can make to national development...

Midnight passed in Washington last Thursday, and still no last-minute deal was reached on the sequester - the automatic spending cuts which are the latest instalment in the United States' rolling fiscal cliff...

An important event is unfolding in Kingston today which, perhaps, may be a defining moment for Jamaica. We hope it is...

Just recently, in New York, I walked into a room intending to meet someone who I had no idea was Jamaican.

The following is feedback from an online interview of Yvonne Coke, conducted by Esther Tyson.

It may be that some things are just too simple for brilliant minds to grasp.

The portrait of the Trelawny couple with their two lovely infants, which appeared in The Gleaner on Wednesday, did not look anything like a family in crisis. However, the murder of the children and suicide of their father that unfolded in the community of Wait-A-Bit, Trelawny, on Monday night, suggests that the young farmer could possibly have been struggling with some type of emotional disorder.

I read with interest the article in The Gleaner of February 25, 2013 attributing statements from Dr Peter Phillips that he will use legislative power of Parliament if necessary to take funds from National Housing Trust (NHT) for budget support. This issue has been a concern to me for some time now. I am compelled to address it in light of the trend.