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Published:Friday | December 28, 2012 | 12:00 AM

AS MY last column for the year, I want to use the opportunity to look back at the highlights and disappointments in sports for me for the year 2012.The performance of Jamaica's Olympic team was an obvious high point...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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

Published:Friday | December 28, 2012 | 12:00 AM

AROUND THE cupola of Kingston's Holy Trinity Cathedral is emblazoned 'This is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth', words taken from St Paul's first letter to Timothy, Chapter 3, verse 15.

Published:Friday | December 28, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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....

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

TODAY, THERE will be a lighting ceremony for the Sam Sharpe Emergence at the Croydon Heritage Tour in the hills of Catadupa, St James...

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, SIR: Note is taken of an editorial which was published in the December 24, 2012 edition of The Gleaner.

Published:Thursday | December 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

"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...

Published:Wednesday | December 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

This festive season, while you imbibe the liquor and food that's just reward for your toil and success over the year past, spare a thought for one man. Raise your crystal glass, tumbler, enamel mug or your plastic cup and toast a man whom you wish better luck on for the year 2013....

Published:Wednesday | December 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Wednesday | December 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Below is an open letter to Ms Shirley Richards.I write with regard to your column published in the Wednesday, December 19 edition of The Gleaner under the caption 'Jamaica's buggery law no violation of human rights...

Published:Wednesday | December 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Monday | December 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Whatever you thought about the style of Greg Christie, lately the contractor general, you had to admire his crusade against corruption and his tenacity in ensuring that public officers follow the Government's procurement rules.Any success he achieved...

Published:Monday | December 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Monday | December 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Around Christmas time, a few years ago, I was in the car waiting on my wife when a middle-aged, neatly dressed beggar slowly and cautiously approached....

Published:Monday | December 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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.

Published:Monday | December 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

God has given men (the male of the species) the authority to name and even rename things that He formed. Many of the problems that exist are because the men are not walking in their authority and are not fulfilling the purpose...

Published:Sunday | December 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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.

Published:Sunday | December 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

We don't know if Prime Minister (PM) Portia Simpson Miller makes New Year resolutions. We wouldn't be surprised, though, if she did. In which case, at the top of her 2013 list should be a plan to spend political capital, to which she should keep.

Published:Sunday | December 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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.

Published:Sunday | December 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The maddening silence in the public domain activated by the Government's protractedly uncommunicative stance in 2012 was anything but golden.

Published:Sunday | December 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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.

Published:Saturday | December 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In difficult economic times, donations to charitable organisations usually dry up.

Published:Saturday | December 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Christmas is the season during which Christians celebrate the birth of Christ.

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