Commentary

'Everything in moderation' is a tenet of immense value.

Current ganja laws criminalise huge numbers of youths, and commit another large chunk of the populace to a daily outlaw existence by the time they light up after morning tea.

Below is a lightly edited keynote address at the University of Technology 50th Anniversary Symposium on the Jamaican educational system, delivered Thursday, July 19.

Two peanuts walked into a bar and one was a salted.

Jamaican PM Portia Simpson Miller must be cursing her luck. Just when the party president thought she had finished fighting the Trafigura and Olint fires, she might still have to reach into her pocket ...

On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was in his compound near Abbotabad, Pakistan, with his youngest wife and some of his children, when Navy SEALs of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group helicoptered in and shot him dead, along with his...

DURING HER contribution to the 2012-13 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 3, Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna elaborated on dates, events, venues, partnerships, sponsors, entertainment...

TWO SATURDAYS ago, in an interview between the dreadlocked reggae artiste Ricardo Gayle, better known as Khago, and Winford Williams on the programme 'Onstage' hosted on CVM TV, it emerged that Khago was at the studio with police as his bodyguard...

The Jamaica-China Friendship Association is not often, or sufficiently, publicly heard on major policy issues.That is not because it does nothing, or lacks a point of view...

NEW YORK: Much of the debate over what to do in the Middle East tends to pit realists against idealists. Bahrain is a classic case, as is Saudi Arabia and, for that matter, Egypt...

Quite unforgettably, Fr Ho Lung (Gleaner, July 12, 2012) wants Usain Bolt "to walk humbly before God and man ...never forgetting others but always sacrificing himself for others".

This is the first in a series of letters by Rupert Johnson on elementary education in pre-Independence Jamaica. THE EDITOR, Sir:In celebrating Jamaica's 50th anniversary of Independence, it is worthwhile to be aware of what transpired in the field...