In response to my column, 'What's that foul smell, NEPA?', Mr Peter Knight, CEO of the National Environment and Planning Agency, sent a rather defensive letter to the editor which was published last Sunday.- Carolyn Cooper
The general election will be top of mind in the coming weeks, and politicians of both major parties will, no doubt, pull out all the stops to win power. - Dennis Morrison
THE EDITOR, Sir:The inauguration speech of Prime Minister Andrew Holness suggested that he was on a new path of integrity and a departure from the past.
In Focus columnist Robert Wynter warns Jamaicans that they must make sure that Prime Minister Holness' promises not be a comfort to a fool."Translating this hope into reality will not be achieved by yet again sitting back and expecting miracles from PM...
Chris Gayle is clearly being well advised.The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is now asking that he withdraw statements he made on that KLAS interview with yours truly before he can again play for the regional team.
In Jamaican politics, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.Our new and young prime minister, Andrew Holness, makes a good inauguration speech, saying all the right things, and the tribalists damn it as so much rhetoric...
THE EDITOR, Sir:An open letter to the Office of the Prime Minister and the Office of the Public Defender.Several government agencies operate their current accounts through the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Ltd.
The official and widely used statistic is of a backlog of more than 400,000 cases in Jamaica's courts, a large portion of them being in the Supreme Court.Over the last three weeks, this number has been added...
I WATCHED on Public Broadcasting Corporation Clive Mullings, minister of mining and energy, defending in Parliament his assertion that there has been no economic growth in two decades.
Hear out Basil Nembhard, who operates a grocery store in Settlement district, Manchester, on whether Prime Minister Andrew Holness should continue with the economic policies set by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding.THOSE POLICIES are too harsh and we...
BEWARE, THE mudfest is about to intensify! There were always disquieting signs that at least one of the mud banks was being replenished with amazing rapidity (both parties have mud banks, o/c propaganda machines).And with Andrew Holness, the new prime...
ANDREW HOLNESS gets few bonus marks for either new or creative thinking for his Cabinet, especially after the suspense he contrived over its announcement.It may be a legitimate argument, though, that what Mr Holness has put in place is a holding...
Having completed appointments to the Cabinet yesterday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given a clear signal that he and his team are ready to tackle the major issues on his Government's plate.Considering that Holness is up...
Dear Mr Prime Minister: Congratulations on your ascension to the highest office in the land. Judging from your speech, it is obvious you are well aware of the wretched state of the economy, particularly the job market. I was quite pleased...
Frankly, we expected the transition to the new Government to have been as smooth and seamless as Andrew Holness' elevation to the premiership.After all, with the potential contenders for Bruce Golding's post as head of the Jamaica Labour Party and prime...
Feedback of online readers to yesterday's lead story, 'Garrison label must go':Garrison more than label, it's reality. The problem is not the label 'garrison'.
Response to the letter to the editor by Paul Kidd, titled 'Multiple factors to math misery' published on Wednesday, October 19.I agree that the issues impacting the teaching and learning of mathematics are many....
I thank The Gleaner for 'bushing' out a little clearing on its pages for me to plant a few words. It spares me from applying for that loader-man vacancy Bishop Blair had been advertising....
