Commentary

JAMAICA PUBLIC Service (JPS), the light and power company, can't claim a nice reputation among its customers...

EGYPTIAN POLITICS over the past nine months has not been an edifying sight, but the new constitution does not spell the end of democracy in Egypt....

LAST WEEK'S fracas in downtown Kingston between higglers and the police to enforce vending-zone regulations was reflective of the incompetence of the municipal authorities and their long history of botching most things upon which they rest their...

"AND THE Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman caught in the act of adultery.They asked him, 'Do you agree with the law of Moses that she should be stoned to death?' And Jesus, looking at the promiscuous woman...

These days, the rights of sexes and human rights generally seem to become more important and sensitive than before. International groups like Amnesty are being recognised and supported by nations and by individuals...

Owen Ellington, the police chief, has his work cut out for him.Last week, he recommitted himself to reducing Jamaica's murder rate to 12 per 100,000 by 2017 - a target first announced a year ago by his boss...

United States Republicans at least get to go home early for Christmas. But before closing down Congress and leaving Washington, they stuck a lump of coal in everyone's stocking...

We're only hours away from Christmas and you can feel it in the air. Emotions are high. Little children are waiting impatiently to rip into their gifts, while adults are trying hard to forget how much they all cost. It's about perspective, really.

For the past two editions of The Sunday Gleaner's In Focus section, veteran journalist Ian Boyne has conducted a review of the state of the local media, and that is welcome.

Father Richard Ho Lung's article on Sunday, December 16, 2012, 'Do Adventists hate Catholics?', has puzzled many well-thinking citizens. While one is not imputing motive, it is strange that the godly priest chooses to ask that question in public without first making contact with the church.

If you were told of a country which boasts over half a century of unbroken democratic government and was blessed with the most desirable of climates; a country that sits on reserves of important mineral assets, with a remarkable variety of micro-climates and soils that impart unique characteristics to its food and spices, your response would probably be: there is no such country.

If the world did not end yesterday and you are reading this today, three days before Christmas, you have to thank your lucky stars, one in particular that has attracted and guided the holy and the wise since BC became AD and the great Roman Empire ended...