The Government, or elements thereof, apparently felt it to be smart politics to allow weeks of confusion and speculation about liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Jamaica's energy future...
WE CAN no longer continue to just blame teachers, parents, social conditions, principals, for the fact that so many of our students seem uninterested, disaffected and bored while in school...
It is imaginable - not certain, but certainly possible - that Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's strongman ruler since 1998, will lose the presidential election on October 7.
Glendon Harris, the chairman of the St James Parish Council, who took the oath of office against the backdrop of an altered representation of the Jamaican flag, is a chap who says the most peculiarly interesting...
I have often heard jungle justice described as a contagious disease. In the past week, we have witnessed mob killings in Trelawny and in St Catherine...
We support the sentiment of the civil-society leaders who believe that it is high time that the public defender, Mr Earl Witter, deliver the findings on how 73 civilians may have died when police and soldiers stormed Tivoli Gardens in May 2010...
I would like to commend The Gleaner on its editorial of Saturday, September 29, 2012. I believe that this is an excellent editorial which covers three areas in which we, the general populace...
While celebrating Jamaica's musical creativity, we must also acknowledge we've 'created' by copying and infusing our own experiences.For example, the celebrated My Boy Lollipop was a cover of Barbie Gaye's blues original...
Betty-Ann Blaine, who is associated with the outfit Hear the Children's Cry, was typical in her response to the recent spate of horrific crimes against women and children, including the gang rape in St James of an eight-year-old girl, her mother and...
How on earth can people call Mitt Romney selfish? The Republican nominee in the United States presidential election is so generous, he's been out campaigning for his opponent.
Every mob killing or the extrajudicial killing of someone at the hands of an accuser always brings back vivid memories of a night when an irate cabbie and his entire 'load' of passengers wrongfully accused me of hitting his recently repaired taxi ...
From time to time, people will say, 'Did God say so?' or 'Did God speak?' Others will say, 'God never said that to anybody; you're telling me what you think?' or 'That is gibberish, nothing goes like that!' Even better, 'God does...
In what we expect to be one of a few valedictory speeches over the next several weeks, Greg Christie, the contractor general, described his office as a "toothless bulldog".We don't believe that most...
Quite a bit of anticipation developed over the last few weeks for the presentation by Prime Minister and People's National Party President Portia Simpson Miller on the floor of the 74th conference held recently.
Neither Peter Phillips, the finance minister, nor Brian Wynter, the governor of the central bank, is likely to have been enamoured with Aubyn Hill's column in last Friday's Financial Gleaner.
Since the early years of the cold war, foreign policy has generally ceased to be the biggest issue for American voters in presidential elections. Instead, the economy is what matters most.
For the first time in its almost 40-year history, the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ) is hosting an exhibition of poster art. It opens this morning at 11 o'clock and showcases the top 100 entries from the First International Reggae Poster Contest. Six hundred and seventy-eight designers from 80 countries submitted 1,142 posters!
Nine months after it was swept into office on a promise to solve Jamaica's unemployment problems with jobs by the 'JEEP-load', we are left to wonder if the PNP's message is about to outstrip the JLP's 'jobs, jobs, jobs' mantra of 2007 as the epitome of empty election promises.
Damion Crawford is a young, rookie MP who, not long ago as president of the People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO), criticised his own party whenever he believed it acted against the best interests of the majority of Jamaicans. He did so with aplomb, without fear and with a deep sense of compassion.
