Commentary

The Summer Olympics provided Britain welcome respite from the doom and gloom of the bad economy. But, like many a blow-out party, it came to a shuddering end. When the country's overpaid footballers walked onto the pitch just vacated...

In the lead-up to the People's National Party's (PNP) 74th conference, Chairman Robert Pickersgill described the then upcoming gathering as a "celebratory and thank-you" event.

The outrage at the health and family life education 'curriculum guide' had a legitimate basis.

For the second time within a week, I feel it necessary to correct the 'correcters'. First, there was the well-intended but quite inaccurate letter from a Gleaner correspondent, Mr Richard May, accusing the Canadian High Commission of dissing our national flag.

Councillor Kevin Taylor of the Duhaney Park division has put up a stout justification for this weekend's municipal retreat at a luxury north coast resort, in the process flaying colleague councillor Duane Smith for dismissing the venture as a waste of scarce resources.

THE EDITOR, Sir:On Monday, September 17, I was making my regular after-work home trip with a group of co-workers: Carpooling has become a phenomenon that the frugal-minded among us has gladly welcomed.

THE EDITOR, Sir: The idea that a young politician would decide to buck patronage politics augurs well for the future.

The West Indies will bow into action tomorrow in the World Twenty20 tournament with the entire region believing that this competition could be one where we truly impose ourselves on the cricket world. The West Indies have been installed as pre-tournament...

I listened to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's speech at the People's National Party's (PNP) annual conference on Sunday afternoon and could not believe that it was the same address I read about on Monday morning in both our newspapers.

Earlier this week, I was at a church in New York where a Sunday school tutor was advocating teaching the Ten Commandments as a means of getting young people to behave better.

The public uproar over the health and family life education (HFLE) curriculum has done a grave disservice to a programme that addresses many of the social ills plaguing Jamaican youth...

The sex education text prescribed is disgusting!- themachetemanYes! Students are having sex from they enter grade 7.