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Published:Thursday | January 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

A FEW Sunday's ago in The Sunday Gleaner, Roman Catholic Scholar, Theresa Lowe Ching wrote about 'Mary, Mother of God' and said of Mary, "Regarded as co-redemptrist, Mary has been accorded the highest veneration, dulia, second only to, and clearly...

Published:Thursday | January 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IN AN article (The Gleaner, December 27, 2012) captioned 'Church must champion justice for sexual minorities', Associate Editor Byron Buckley launched a broadside attack on the Church for what it deems the Church's failure...

Published:Thursday | January 3, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IN A country with Jamaica's high levels of homicide, there is no gainsaying the emotional value of any decline in the absolute and relative numbers of homicides.So, we do not begrudge the celebration by National Security Minister Peter Bunting...

Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

This past week, Julian Robinson, the parliamentary representative for South East St Andrew and the junior minister for energy and technology, marked his first year as an MP by circulating a report...

Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The first year of this new People's National Party (PNP) administration has been a mixed bag. Among the things under its control, there has been spectacular lows, but no spectacular highs....

Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Unsightly pile-up of weeks' old garbage is not what most people expect to see in their communities - especially at Christmas time. But this is what confronted many residents of Corporate Area communities during the Christmas holidays...

Published:Wednesday | January 2, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), successfully held between November 8 and 14, was one of the most important meetings held since China has entered the decisive stage of completing the building of a prosperous...

Published:Tuesday | January 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IT IS the considered position of this newspaper that much of the public discussion about Jamaica's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is misdirected, of limited value, and does little to advance an understanding of the issues facing...

Published:Tuesday | January 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

IN MY opinion, God basically does two things to man: smile or frown. In celebrating 50 years of Independence, I knew God's smile brought blessings. The economy was good. The Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation...

Published:Tuesday | January 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Happy New Year to readers (both of them).Happy birthday to me. Yes, Anno Domini has ticked over once more and added another cent (well, all right, 'dollar') to the cash register of my life. Unfortunately, it's a recurring theme...

Published:Tuesday | January 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:HOW MANY of us Jamaicans know the meaning of Boxing Day? To what extent do we celebrate this holiday in a way that exemplifies its traditional meaning? It is ludicrous that in modern, post-colonial Jamaica we are still given this day as...

Published:Monday | December 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WE DO not know if Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has had a chance to consider our suggestion of a week ago regarding her New Year resolutions, assuming that she's into that sort of thing.But if the PM doesn't do the traditional resolution thing...

Published:Monday | December 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Believe it or not, I'm actually not Bounty Killer.I know what you're thinking - the resemblance is uncanny. Truth is though, that famously cantankerous, sometimes awkwardly verbose dancehall artiste and I are different people entirely...

Published:Monday | December 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The recent announcement that the ban on the scrap metal industry will be lifted (again) has precipitated renewed and valid fears of widespread illegal scavenging (thievery) and many many millions of dollars in losses...

Published:Monday | December 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

As I write this, well-sated by the season's joyous festivities, the United States is bickering its way towards the fiscal cliff, Jamaica is still negotiating an IMF agreement, and Italy - God bless Italy - has revived its political rancour...

Published:Monday | December 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

As we come to the end of another year, for some it was a good year, for others it was a trying one; yet, for others it was filled with obstacles...

Published:Sunday | December 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WE ARE happy, for its own sake, about the cautiously optimistic news that has emerged from Caracas in recent days about President Hugo Chavez's health.

Published:Sunday | December 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

THE PERFORMANCE evaluations conducted by the media on the minister/ Ministry of National Security have so far been quite superficial.

Published:Sunday | December 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

IT WOULD be well to begin with a working definition of political corruption.

Published:Sunday | December 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

PERHAPS THE single most talked-about issue that has dominated discussion on the future of society, the fortunes of a country, the performance of businesses, the outcomes of education, and the challenges facing the church is leadership.

Published:Sunday | December 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

THE RESULTS of the 2011 Population Census of Jamaica, released by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on October 17, 2012, show that the Christian denominations which are members of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) declined in absolute...

Published:Saturday | December 29, 2012 | 12:00 AM

THE LAST-MINUTE rush and resultant chaos surrounding the end of the six-month traffic-ticket amnesty was not unexpected.

Published:Saturday | December 29, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Below are comments from readers at www.jamaica-gleaner.com to yesterday's lead story, 'Major arrests loom ... as cops close in on crime bosses'

Published:Saturday | December 29, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The Government has said it will not extend the current six-month traffic amnesty which expires on December 31.

Published:Saturday | December 29, 2012 | 12:00 AM

HOME ON the range on Christmas Eve, but there being no deer and antelope around, I had to make do with chicken.

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