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Published:Saturday | October 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The 2011 census is out and comments from many quarters have been aired, some of which question the exclusion of pertinent information, and some with a certain 'we are better than them' type of boasting.

Published:Friday | October 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Membership in traditional churches takes a nosedive, according to the 2011 Census...

Published:Friday | October 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Both as a church-man and as a sociologist, I have taken great interest over the years in Jamaican census data on religion...

Published:Friday | October 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Cricket is a strange game. It thrives on maintaining archaic values and traditions and sometimes those who administer the game seem reluctant to do anything that brings the game into modern times....

Published:Friday | October 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Before Gilbert in 1988, it was nearly 40 years since Jamaica had received a direct hit from a hurricane, and almost a decade after it had been sideswiped by one.In a sense, therefore, Jamaica might...

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

RECENTLY, I was relating to the newly elected deacons of Boulevard Baptist Church some life lessons I learnt from the Reverend Clement Gayle, my tutor while I was at the United Theological College (UTC).

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

ONE OF my favourite quotations goes like this: "It is not crooks we fear in business, but honest men who don't know what they are doing." This could be why the Canoe Valley, which is a part of Jamaica's last remaining dry...

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The following is feedback from Gleaner Online readers to yesterday's editorial headlined, 'Mr Hylton's hotline'.

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

NOT SURPRISINGLY, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller cut short her official visit to Canada, returning home ostensibly to oversee the island's preparations for Hurricane Sandy, which hit Jamaica yesterday, leaving infrastructural damage which..

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

It is probably apocryphal. But it is worth telling - an interesting anecdote from the days when Edward Seaga was Jamaica's prime minister and David Rockefeller, with the imprimatur of President Ronald Reagan, headed a committee...

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The following is feedback from Gleaner Online readers to yesterday's editorial headlined, 'Where is the Government? Administration lost in a maze'...

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Today is recognised as United Nations (UN) Day. The most recent Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress report indicates that the global target of halving the proportion of people living on less than US$1.25 daily...

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM

If Hurricane Sandy allows them to, scores of women will make the trek to The Jamaica Pegasus hotel tomorrow to attend the annual breast cancer fund-raiser...

Published:Tuesday | October 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

President of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), Kelly Tomblin, is emerging as an illuminating figure in this rather dark era in Jamaica marked by the spectres of cynicism and scepticism.Tomblin's promise to humanise the JPS, made at a recent Rotary Club...

Published:Tuesday | October 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

I'm repeatedly asked why I so vociferously support gay rights, especially in the face of Jamaica's deep-rooted fear of homosexuality (homophobia).We're all products of our experiences...

Published:Tuesday | October 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The following is feedback from Gleaner Online readers to this newspaper's editorial on Sunday headlined 'Where is the Government? Simpson Miller administration AWOL'.PM out of her leagueI've been saying it all along that I doubt Portia...

Published:Tuesday | October 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's report on last weekend's special gathering of the Cabinet confirmed her Government as floundering in a maze of waffle and mediocrity, unwilling or incapable ...

Published:Monday | October 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

I admit that I remain a bit befuddled by the whole affair, but it is just possible that I've inadvertently stumbled upon the solution to many of Jamaica's problems...

Published:Monday | October 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

You will never see yourself out of a financial situation if you see only with your natural eyes. Your natural eyes will only see your present circumstances, because your natural eyes are limited. But, your spiritual eyes....

Published:Monday | October 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

It was supposed to be a leisurely Saturday afternoon drive along the Mandela Highway. A friend of mine needed to talk about some problems that she was experiencing. I stuck to the left-hand (slow lane) and cruised about 60 kph.

Published:Monday | October 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica is a far way from being a nation of geriatrics, but its greys are beginning to show, a fact that will open a new set of challenges for which smart policymakers should begin to prepare.The danger, however, is that faced with the immediacy...

Published:Monday | October 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

You'd probably have to go back to the 1980s to find an election in which the choices offered to Americans are so starkly different as those this year...

Published:Sunday | October 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

I am an Obama man. Like most Jamaicans, I think. But he has me worried. Could it be that Obama has single-handedly snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory? With his debacle of a performance in the first presidential debate, was it a car wreck? Or was it just a pothole in the road?

Published:Sunday | October 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The 'P' in NEPA certainly does not stand for 'Protection'. It's 'Planning'. And it looks as if the National Environment and Planning Agency is planning to let the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) sell off as much protected land as 'developers' want. NEPA doesn't seem to know that protecting the environment should actually be high on its agenda.

Published:Sunday | October 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica is well known as the land of suss, otherwise called labrish. Apparently, STATIN has recently made this official by publishing what can only be at least 100 pieces of suss. Why? It's called the censuss, dear Liza, dear Liza. This exercise in labrish cloaked as official statistics is about as useless as Freddie Hickling's barber and, if taken seriously enough to inspire national policy, as dangerous as the Ebola virus.

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