Commentary

Mitt Romney's opening salvo made one thing clear last Tuesday night: His mission is to further establish what he has come to regard as his natural superiority over the United States President Barack Obama. After all, Mr Romney's vast array of image-perfect poses during the first 2012 presidential debate may have scored big, especially among Republican supporters.

Monday night's musical tribute to Jamaica's record-breaking athletes at the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics has drawn blistering criticism from members of the public, who felt that some simple rules of protocol were broken by athletes and performers alike.

What do Chicken Little and James Bond have in common? Chicken Little was in a movie about the sky falling and James Bond is the star in a movie called Skyfall.

Mike Henry, the Jamaica Labour Party parliamentarian and ex-Cabinet minister, has not had a good run, politically, recently. Conventional wisdom is that his handling of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme contributed to his party's defeat...

The August 23, 2012 issue of The Gleaner carried an article captioned '3,000 public-sector posts to go in Sept'.The article quoted the minister of finance as saying that "the decision to cut the posts was not an option but a necessity...

I write with reference to two articles in your paper recently concerning the sex registry. Three senators, presumably of some intelligence, make a suggestion supported by the highly respected Gavel...

Fellow columnist Orville Taylor ought to be commended for writing on a subject related to the office of national hero in 'Were all our heroes really heroic?' (Sunday Gleaner, October 14, 2012) in which he questioned whether most of our national heroes...

Below is an open letter to Justice Minister Mark Golding. I write to urge reconsideration of the proposed sex-offender registry in Jamaica...

We congratulate the scores of Jamaicans, some of whom are no longer with us, who were on Monday formally bestowed with national honours for their contributions to the nation's development in various fields of endeavour.As we noted in these columns three...

Orville Taylor, lecturer at the University of the West Indies, some weeks ago wrote that "Nanny was pushed in (to the Order of National Hero) because she was a woman, to appease the feminists"...

The Old Ball and Chain (BC) takes plenty flak in these columns. How do I know? Lerner/Loewe warns...

This newspaper appreciates the great contribution by our athletes to Jamaica's confidence in its place in the global community and to the sense of well-being, beyond their personal circumstances, of individual citizens.Indeed, the euphoria during ...