Published:Thursday | September 13, 2012 | 12:00 AM
WE WANT the world, we want to be children of God. We want to love others, but we love ourselves more than others. We want the pleasures of our flesh, but want the spiritual life also.
Published:Thursday | September 13, 2012 | 12:00 AM
TWO SATURDAYS ago, 27-year-old Kay-Ann Lamont, who was eight months pregnant, returned from back-to-school shopping in downtown Kingston, and while awaiting a taxi to head home to Logwood, she exclaimed how "dem rob har downtown to b...c..." Police...
Published:Wednesday | September 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM
A Jamaican attorney-at-law, Hugh Wildman, reportedly asserted, inter alia, that the quality of judgments of the Privy Council is "far superior" to those emanating from our Caribbean Court of Justice...
Published:Wednesday | September 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM
It was a welcome change from the usual dreary story: a Christian or a Hindu Pakistani accused of blasphemy on flimsy grounds, tried, and sentenced to prison - or found innocent, set free and then murdered by some Muslim fanatic...
Published:Wednesday | September 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM
We have great empathy for the motive behind the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed Monday between the Government and the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), aimed at encouraging firms to add up to 40,000 new workers to their payrolls....
In his article 'Chronic squatting', published in The Sunday Gleaner of September 9, 2012, Garth Taylor wrote the following: "In fact, even the runaway slaves who escaped the plantation into the hills were squatters on Crown...
At any criminal trial, the prosecution's obligation is to prove two limbs of each charge beyond a reasonable doubt.These are actus reus (the physical act) and mens rea (the intention to act, o/c 'criminal intent').
Maybe a case can still be fabricated for a debate on the logic of why Jamaica should accede to the civil and criminal jurisdictions of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).But for those who remain wary of such a move, they, in their arguments...
The court will have to decide exactly what happened to pregnant Kay-Ann Lamont. What we can say is that the tragic events have caused the Jamaican public to hold their collective jaw corner and cuss a claat in disbelief and anger...
I am elated to hear that the public defender, Earl Witter, and opposition spokesperson on youth and gender affairs, Olivia Grange, are pressing for a change in our laws so that anyone who kills a pregnant woman would also be charged with killing her unborn child.
It seems to be Canada's way of drawing attention to itself - like the good child who, frustrated nobody ever notices her, decides to behave blowout badly one night.
Frank Phipps, the wily, old attorney with whom this newspaper doesn't always agree but whose intellectual feistiness we cherish, raised an intriguing issue at a Gleaner Editors' Forum last week which, if it holds true, could spell a legal and constitutional conundrum for the Government.
What? You didn't know that St Elizabeth, that beautiful place down south where the sweetest melons grow, was named for Lady Elizabeth Modyford, wife of Governor Sir Thomas Modyford?
Later this week, the People's National Party (PNP), which has been back in office for nearly nine months, will hold its annual conference. It should use the occasion to clarify, bring coherence to, and put political muscle behind an economic agenda.
The caption 'Our judges not good enough', a statement attributable to Hugh Wildman, former senior director of public prosecutions of Jamaica, appearing in the September 7, 2012 edition of The Gleaner, has the potential effect of undermining the integrity of the judiciary of Jamaica, in particular, and the English-speaking Caribbean, in general.
As if teachers do not have enough challenges to wrestle with in their classrooms, the adherence to uniformity is emerging as a major issue, with some students refusing to comply with the established dress code.
THE EDITOR, Sir:'Bad words', also known as curse words; expletives; foul, indecent, lewd, obscene, offensive, profane and vulgar language, are communication which individual cultures deem to be socially unacceptable, reprehensible or taboo.
