Commentary

We are sick and tired of Mr Phillip Paulwell's approach to energy policy formulation that appears to us to be an amalgam of stalking horses, three-card tricksters, and loquacious bravado.So, it is time for the minister to end the drawing room charade...

It's amazing how much countries have in common - be they big and powerful, or poor and small.Today, the cries for justice echo from all corners of the earth as ordinary people seek to challenge the status quo and arrive at a better place ...

It is more than five months since Horace Dalley, a minister in the finance ministry, made the umpteenth declaration of the Jamaican Government's intention to get out of the horse racing business.Marketing the sport and operating the island's sole...

In his column 'An unexamined life is not worth living' (Gleaner, February 1, 2013), Peter Espeut contends, "The greatest enemies of true religion are apathy, sloppy reasoning, and dishonesty." I wouldn't accuse Peter of being apathetic to religion...

Globally, we are crying out for visionaries and righteous leaders in various sectors to solve the issues that now exist globally...

There was often the sense that he was being merely humoured. Ralph Chen never noticed, or perhaps didn't care. He plodded on....

All right, here we go. Deep breath. Remember, it won't last long. Click!

I believe that my success is an ode to the benefits of access to education. If it had not been for my exposure to tertiary education, all the experiences and knowledge that I am now privy to would not have been possible.

Today, I honour Dr Dahlia Repole who dedicated her life to the development of education in Jamaica. She made an indelible stamp on St Andrew High School for Girls, her alma mater, and Excelsior Community College in her role as leader of those institutions. However, she was not only an educator, but a wife and mother.

I have often heard it said that being old one can always be sure to have a wider knowledge base than the young. It is also said that if the old could remember what it is that they know so much about, they could relay it to the young in certain knowledge that no one will take a blind bit of notice!

Thursday was an exercise in deep grief and tragedy. I sat through the first half-hour of TVJ's evening news broadcast experiencing a gamut of feelings from the darker end of the emotional spectrum.

When the Jamaica Labour Party introduced universal health care, the policy made no exception. Immediately, it became a sort of entitlement - free to everyone, rich or poor, young and old. Jamaicans living overseas are able to come here home and avail themselves to high-quality health care free of cost and at the expense of taxpayers.