British Prime Minister David Cameron's comments threatening to withhold aid from developing Commonwealth countries which do not repeal laws criminalising homosexuality caught the attention of many.
Not being satisfied with the failure of the Commonwealth heads of government to arrive at a consensus on the matter of the repeal of sodomy laws within the Commonwealth, British Prime Minister David Cameron has taken the decision to withhold British aid from non-compliant nations.
Those are the fighting words of Lawrence Rowe, who expressed disgust yesterday about being treated as a cricket pariah. Last Friday, he gave a seven-day ultimatum to Lyndel Wright ...
Sometimes, in a flight of fancy, I feel I could write a screenplay for a comedy.Here's one idea for a scene: It is a Jamaican courtroom, and the defendant is on trial for concealing ganja underneath ships bound ....
Peter Bunting's response to Finance Minister Audley Shaw's complaint about the state of the Government's finances was silly and unbecoming of someone who has worked at high levels in the financial system.First, Mr Bunting must be aware ...
MR OWEN Ellington, the police chief, was quite on point in his reflection on this newspaper naming him as its Man of the Year for 2011. While the award reflects recognition for past accomplishments, that is not the whole story...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I READ your rather detailed and eloquent editorial of the November 8, and wish to respond to same.While some may argue that Mr Andrew Holness' ascendancy to the post of prime minister is new, I do not believe that this precludes him from...
I WAS privileged to have been asked by The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church to give the Centenary Lecture during the Jamaica conference of the 16th Episcopal District Meeting which was held last Saturday...
I must thank Carmen Clarke for her letter to the editor in The Gleaner of November 8 expressing outrage at the measly sentence handed down to a man who raped...
Below are excerpts from online readers to yesterday's Letter of the Day, 'Shame on justice system for giving rapist 12 years'.Not real JusticeWe are faced here with an unjust judge, or somebody 'goozum' him...
Andrew Holness, Jamaica's new prime minister, is right in his observations about the constitutional ineligibility of persons with dual citizenship to sit in the country's Parliament."...
In December 1893, the Greek prime minister of the day stood up in Parliament and announced: "Regretfully, we are bankrupt." Nobody was greatly surprised, because the country had already defaulted on its foreign debt three previous times during the 19th...
Everybody knows I can't abide ceremony.In particular, weddings and funerals aren't on my social calendar. In my dictionary, weddings are overrated, pretentious schemes to raise money for the future unhappy couple...
We believe that Prime Minister Andrew Holness missed the point or deliberately obfuscated the issue.There is not, at this time, any campaign in Jamaica for same-sex marriages or unions and for the law to be amended to accommodate these.What reasonable...
As he battled before his Parliament last Friday night to survive a vote of confidence and keep secure the European Union's (EU) €100-billion bailout package, Greece's outgoing prime minister, George Papandreou, made a stirring plea for honesty from...
Recent developments in the Middle East provide a mixture of promise and anxiety.The happiest news of late comes from Tunisia, the country that started the whole Arab Spring nearly a year ago. Recent elections ...
The job of prime minister is an unenviable one. The holder of this high office is literally in the (administrative and moral) driver's seat. He/she helps in no small way to set the standards of our society...
In a Gleaner article titled 'Campion, Jago in high demand' and dated June 22, 2011, Minister of Education Andrew Holness was quoted as saying, "Every year at GSAT time, (there is) weeping and wailing as students can't get into the school of choice.
Although I expressed surprise that it took a public outcry to push the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) to launch an investigation into the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) billing system [Financial Gleaner, August 26], I could not have...- Dennis Morrison
