Commentary

This year, All Fools' Day fell on a Sunday but, as usual, I remembered April 1, 1974.I'd been heading towards a UWI medical degree but my customary methods were proving surprisingly ineffective...

National Democratic Movement insider Deacon Peter Espeut has promoted me to "PNP insider". That's fine. Many people just read the title of this column and called me something really bad. Still it feels like a curious designation as I trod "over hills and valleys too" in New York...

A select group of Jamaican women entrepreneurs found themselves at the recent Spring Fair International in the United Kingdom. Sponsorship money from the Commonwealth Secretariat ensured that their locally produced ceramics...

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) got a shellacking in the December 29, 2011 general election. It only managed to secure 21 of the 63 available seats in Parliament, with the remaining 42 seats going to the People's National Party (PNP)...

One hundred years ago, on the night of April 14, 1912, the White Star Liner's Titanic kissed an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on-board, only 705 survived. This was the ship's maiden voyage, and it had famously been said that the Titanic's watertight compartments made it "practically unsinkable".

The underperformance of boys has been widely researched and discussed in our society for many years. Academics, educators and community workers have, from time to time, studied these findings and examined various strategies on how to intervene in the lives of male students.

Last Wednesday, CVM TV aired an intriguing documentary on the life of Wilmot Perkins. The sinister title of the programme promised high drama: Unmasking 'Motty'. Presumably, Motty had been masquerading all along as everything but himself. The TV programme was, apparently, designed to blow the dead man's cover.

THE EDITOR, Sir:As we celebrate Earth Day this month, I am concerned about the way we conduct our agricultural practices.

THE EDITOR, Sir:I share The Gleaner's concern (editorial 'Revamp jury system now', April 19, 2012) about the jury system, especially since it is the only safeguard against bias and unfairness in a trial, as it involves the...

Jamaica's winning five consecutive regional four-day titles cannot be seen as a fluke.Five in a row must mean that there is a system, a formula, for success...

This week, Jamaicans finally heard from Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on the Montego Bay flag fiasco - well, sort of. Fresh from attending the Summit of the Americas in Colombia, Mrs Simpson Miller put up a stout defence...

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Known in Hebrew as Yom HaShoah, it is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Nazi genocide carried during World War II....