Commentary

Rising gasolene prices have become a campaign issue in America, as speculation about tensions in the Middle East has exerted pressure on oil prices. Contenders for the Republican Party nominee are promising to cut America's dependence on foreign oil, exploiting the emotional response of United States (US) consumers to the threat of high fuel prices.

By Ronnie Thwaites' estimate, the Jamaican Government spends around $20 billion a year playing education catch-up - that is, teaching students what they ought to have learnt in earlier grades.

I live at Cornwall Court, St James, and am having a problem with the original structure I received from the National Housing Trust (NHT).

Since they started that fateful journey in the 1830s, the candlestick maker has waxed warm and has been doing well off hurricanes and Valentine's Day, and the baker is rolling in dough.

Thank you for allowing me space to share some of the major concerns existing among residents of this community. Cornwall Court is assumed to be the second-largest National Housing Trust (NHT) developed scheme in Jamaica after Portmore. It is the largest in western Jamaica.

The homosexual lobby in Britain, not being satisfied with the creation of civil unions between persons of the same sex (same-sex unions became law in Britain in 2006), is now demanding that these unions be called 'marriages', and the British Parliament...

Justice Minister Mark Golding says he wants a special court to prosecute financial crimes.He plans to discuss the matter with Chief Justice Zaila McCalla....

Nearly as much as anything else, the People's National Party owes its election victory to Omar Davies' zealous pursuit of the previous government's management of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), a Chinese-funded...

IN RESPONSE to the letter published in The Gleaner's People's Report section on Saturday, March 3, headlined, 'Pembroke Hall fed up with neglect', I would like to make the following response:First of all, let me state categorically that I respect ...

Maybe it is something in the water at the finance ministry. Audley Shaw, formerly the finance minister, was prone to tabling budgets and adjusting them...

What do you think about the Government's stated intention to ban smoking in public places? Appropriate indeed! Strict measures must be in place for those who violate the act, whether it is businesses or persons.- Horace 'Shad' DaleyI strongly agree...

It was September 1999 - the start of my third year of university.After two years living in cramped dorms with a collection of random degenerates, it was time to move to a four-bedroom apartment with a group of not-so-random degenerates.