With more Jamaican consumers struggling to meet high electricity bills and buy expensive petrol, we feel that more of the country's attention should be focused on long-term solutions to reduce energy...
Yesterday, Greece's prime minister, George Papandreou, shelved his proposed referendum on the austerity package that is to accompany the European Union's (EU) latest €$100-billion bailout for his debt-riddled country.
Hockey in Jamaica has been thrown into complete chaos! A few weeks ago, the entire executive resigned en bloc, essentially because they have a problem with one man, Richard Shaw, who was - and is now again - the vice-president of the men's side of the...
I LIVE in what could be one of the most delightful communities in the island.There are no large mansions, only three- and four-bedroom dwellings and town houses. The town houses have no fences at the front ...
THERE HAS been a significant increase in the number of electors on the voters list.The number has moved from over 1.3 million to 1.6 million as of the ending of May, 2011.
ON OCTOBER 20, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's reign as leader of Libya came to an end.Gaddafi, at different times, was seen as a hero of the Arab world. He wanted his North African country to be the centre of a United States ...
WE NEED not repeat the little respect with regard to Mrs Sharon Hay-Webster's handling of the issue of legitimacy to sit in the Jamaican Parliament, especially the stealth with which she rescinded the move to renounce her American citizenship that would...
It is time to enact separate, stand-alone legislation that would supplement the existing constitutional provisions and serve to clarify the responsibilities of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
I haven't had sushi in a while.I think I'll visit East Japanese tonight. I can taste it already: a miso soup, two sushi rolls, some salmon sashimi, and a bottle of Asahi to wash it all down...
This week's signal from the rating agency, Standard & Poor's (S&P), of a likely downgrade of Jamaica's sovereign debt represents, at once, a statement about the dire state of our economy, the procrastination of the administration in taking...
THE THEME for the recently concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Perth, Australia, was 'Building National Resilience, Building Global Resilience'.Jamaica was absent from that meeting principally because...
Who knew that my few comments last week about how Montague and Tufton were sidelined without a run-off would cause such mad-ants behaviour? It tells me that this is a sore point.And much as I would want to understand how and why Mr Holness, who never...
Yesterday's Gleaner's lead story ('Step aside now') is, in my opinion, unnecessarily damaging to the characters and reputations of two hard-working national contributors.Suddenly, both Joan Gordon-Webley, National Solid Waste Management Authority...
This newspaper previously endorsed Prime Minister Andrew Holness' creation of a specific Cabinet portfolio to drive public-sector efficiency, which he assigned to Mr Daryl Vaz, the former de facto information minister...
Excerpts of responses to yesterday's Gleaner lead story, 'Vaz talks tough'.Minister Vaz should have a clear definition of what is the 'public sector' and start by rationalising the Government's motor vehicles and the use of such vehicles...
Something is badly amiss in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Several months ago, the DPP told the Jamaican public that her office had dispatched to the relevant agencies in Great Britain a request for evidence...
Another European bailout package, another relief rally.Not only European share markets, but stock markets around the world, blew off the champagne corks amid relief that the much-feared crisis had, once again, been averted.
