THE FLAGS have been waved, the anthem has been sung, and the new currency will be in circulation next week: the Republic of South Sudan has been launched, and is off to who knows where? Perdition, probably, for it is a 'pre-failed state'...
We don't know in whose Cabinet Senior Superintendent Fitz Bailey sits, but effort might have addled his brain and conditioned him to crooked thinking.That seems the most likely explanation for Mr Bailey's claim on Monday, without a shred of evidence,...
The Jamaican police are known, too often, perhaps, to take serious and precipitous action.But raiding the homes of fellow members of the constabulary is not among them.
I enjoy freshly brewed coffee - with condensed milk.Health considerations notwithstanding, that is, to me, one of the finest combinations that life offers.
Too often columnists, especially your humble scribe, give readers the impression that politics is nothing but a dirty game full of hypocrites determined to seek personal gain to the public's detriment.This would be a cruelly false...
The widespread practice of barring students from sitting external examinations has gone on almost unnoticed for many years in schools across Jamaica...
It is not often that Jamaica's local government authorities, including the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), do significant and sustainable things that advance the welfare of the communities over which they preside.The capital, for instance,...
Say what you wish about Mr Everald Warmington - and there is plenty negative to be said - he does have a way of bringing a party-halting honesty to the fete, as he did last week with his revelation about the family feast taking place at the CDF feeding...
Peter Espeut's column on Friday, July 8, relating to the results of two questions in the recent Gleaner poll, is an example of distortion and misrepresentation and why some people are distrustful of what they read, see or hear in the news media....
One of the remarkable things about Britain is that you can never tell what season it is from what people are wearing. Those heavy coats you see as you step off the plane may be for winter, or it may be a blustery summer day...
I am very concerned about the citizens of Jamaica. We need a virile and viable political system that provides worthwhile choices and not simply the lesser of two evils.Almost four years ago, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) took office amid serious ...
An extremely poor US job growth report for the month of June, which came out last Friday, is the latest piece of evidence that the economic recovery in America is faltering, while that nation's political system is gripped by ideological polarisation.
In the face of the intellectual Lilliput that has been passed off as the considered conclusions of serious people who enquired into the Christopher Coke extradition scandal, it is hardly surprising that the...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I take issue with many of the arguments the writer of The Gleaner editorial titled 'Discrimination against gays: a folly' (July 7, 2011) used to support his or her points.
P.T. Barnum, the great American showman and circus owner, is cre-dited with the observation, "There's a sucker born every minute" and he definitely was not referring to banana plants.
Perhaps it is significant that in the same week in August that the nation celebrates Emancipation and Independence, the Metcalfe Street Juvenile Centre in Kingston expects to be fully occupied as a residential facility...
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will receive an annual salary, after tax, of US$467,940, which will be adjusted annually by the level of consumer inflation in the Washington metropolitan...
Minister of Education Andrew Holness mentioned, as reported by The Gleaner on June 27, that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) will be instituting a national school-leaving certificate which would set minimum standards for graduation in secondary schools...
A Bill Johnson poll, conducted between late May and early June, revealed that 60 per cent of Jamaicans held the view that the country would be better off under British rule...
On June 28, this newspaper published the results of a Bill Johnson opinion poll asking whether people believe Jamaica would have been better off today if it had remained a colony of Britain...
