LATER TODAY, the final medals in the annual schools' athletics championship will be handed out at the National Stadium and the winners will be ecstatic.
THE EDITOR, Sir:RECENTLY, I spent two months living in Montego Bay, visiting from Canada, and was struck by how much most of the Jamaican people are shut out of the prosperity, natural resources, and opportunity of their beautiful island.
Mike Henry would have been as culpable as anyone for the December 2011 electoral defeat of the Jamaica Labour Party government (JLP). Certainly, his perceived infractions loomed ugly over the JLP's campaign....
THE 2012 edition of Champs is in full gear and one of the talking points, regrettably, continues to be the barring of certain students from participating because their entries were not properly submitted, or submitted late...
THREE WEEKS ago, I invited Police Federation Chairman Constable Franz Morrison to take the first step and admit that - just maybe - the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) might have a problem with how it uses deadly force to combat crime...
SOME YEARS ago, I be-friended a teacher who was a member of the Jamaica Defence Force reserve. He was a jovial young man, disciplined but quite warm and fun loving...
RECENTLY, THE opinion page editor forwarded to me an email from Carolyn Warren which stated, "I would like to congratulate him on his appointment by his party and to let him know that thanks to religious (sic) hypocrites like him this country will never...
THIS NEWSPAPER has not, for a very long time, been a fan of Jamaica's local government apparatus. Indeed, we have in recent years advocated for the abolition of the parish councils and for their replacement by city...
THE EDITOR, Sir: A FEW weeks ago, while telling the nation of his plan to reduce murders to one per day by 2017, National Security Minister Peter Bunting told the police force that one of the strategies to use in achieving that reduction...
TUESDAY'S VICTORY in the local government elections by the People's National Party (PNP) was hardly surprising. Neither did it tell us much, if anything, that we didn't know about the state of politics in Jamaica...
Below are comments from readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com regarding yesterday's lead story titled, 'Shellacking' , reporting on the outcome of local government elections that were won by the ruling People's National Party (PNP)....
LET US not be too quick to pull out the champagne flutes in celebration of the election of two so-called Independent candidates in Monday's local government vote...
AFTER MOHAMED Merah died in a hail of French police bullets last Thursday, people who had known him talked about "a polite and courteous boy" who liked "cars, bikes, sports and girls"...
THERE WAS an initial burst of enthusiasm and delight when I heard the new minister of energy indicating that he intend to cogently address the challenging energy problem facing Jamaica...
PERCHANCE WE are correct, Daniel Thwaites, who writes columns for this newspaper, has spermatic and probably umbilical connections that would make Mr Arnaldo Brown, recent inductee to the fraternity of political pork, intuitively partial to Mr Thwaites'...
MY NORMAL country route is along the south coast from Kingston to Westmoreland. Recently, there have been about 10 surefire spots where the police will be pulled oneside, just waiting...
Despite the dire warning contained in Proverbs 26:11, I once again return to my favourite industry/sport, horse racing.For the past decade, the government-owned racing promoter, Caymanas Track Limited (CTL), has been blighted by a series of boards...
Gary 'Butch' Hendrickson, the chairman of Continental Bakery Company (National bakery), doesn't run his successful enterprise by perpetuating mistakes....
Numerous factors impact on our physical and mental health. Aside from genetics (which we can do nothing about), things that affect our psyche and things that affect our bodies...
France elects its president next month. Until recently, Francois Hollande, the Socialist challenger to President Nicolas Sarkozy, was in the driver's seat. President Sarkozy, like most any incumbent during and after the 2008 financial crisis...
What with cable television everywhere, everybody knows to "seek immediate medical help for an election lasting more than four hours". Sounds like good, commonsensical advice, right? We've had an election going on four months! Most will agree that it's been challenging.
