Commentary

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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