The matter of Lawrence Rowe apologising and being honoured is impatient of debate. Like others, I am tempted to still dwell overlong on Mr Rowe's transgressions: on the destroyed cricket careers and lives left in his wake; ....
It is widely believed that not all Jamaican schools at the secondary level are equal.Every year when the time for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) - formerly called the Common Entrance Examination (CEE) - comes around, there is much agony...
Responses on www.jamaica-gleaner.com to Herbert Thompson's resignation from NCU and the claims of a power struggle.This is a nice plea for conciliation...
As we have suggested before in these columns, in a perverse way you can't but admire, and envy, the gall of Sharon Hay-Webster - her capacity to be shameless with an attitude...
For the past two decades, Jamaica has suffered the indignity of being classified among countries described as murder capitals. It is not a label we wear proudly, nor one we can easily explain, considering that we are much less susceptible to the racial...
I am still trying to recover from the poll results published as the headline story of The Gleaner's June 27 publication, which shows that 60 per cent of Jamaicans feel that we would be better off today if we had remained a colony of England...
I HAVE a young friend who is a strong supporter of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and who railed at me once that the People's National Party (PNP) had been 'soft on crime', and this was partly the reason why our country was now crime-ridden.
AT THE recent Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) conference, the chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation, Sgt Raymond Wilson, made some suggestions concerning the operation of the chaplaincy counselling unit that appears to be rejected by Commissioner...
Given his immediate talent pool, Prime Minister Bruce Golding will be credited for doing a reasonable job in restructuring his Cabinet, although this newspaper believes that there was room for the PM to be far bolder and more creative.As we have argued...
JAMAICANS HAD mixed feelings about the results of the referendum held on September 19, 1961, when the country voted to secede from the West Indies Federation and to go it alone into Independence.It was a scene of gloom and dejection that evening at...
Social media are powerful transformational tools. Earlier this year, a wave of popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa were largely orchestrated through social media. From a network of Facebook accounts...
THE NEWS that a South African anthropologist is seeking permission to open up Shakespeare's grave to determine if the famed bard smoked weed is enough to divert my attention from recent kidnappings and that bird-shooting...
Speaking strictly as a spectator, I think athletics in ancient Greece was far more exciting than today. For one thing, athletes performed nude. Then if, God forbid, and athlete false-started, an official would administer a sound whipping ...
There can hardly be a more telling and damning indictment of the way Jamaica's affairs have been managed over the past half-century than one of the findings, published yesterday, of an opinion poll conducted on behalf of this newspaper.Nearly 50 years...
Anybody wondering whether the Privy Council should continue as Jamaica's final court should study the story of the beautiful and talented Donna Engerbretson. Donna was a young beautician pregnant with her first child who, 20-odd years ago...
At first blush, in the absence of better particulars, this newspaper finds interesting, and probably workable, the idea for redevelopment of homes for the urban poor, to be piloted in central and west Kingston by the Urban Development Corporation...
THE EDITOR, Sir: Emotions usually get the better of reason in controversial Jamaican issues. The latest example being the Jamaica Cricket Association's (JCA) decision to name the players' pavillion at Sabina Park honouring former Jamaica...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I once read an article by British sports journalist Jonathan Agnew, in which he essentially stated that if Sir Garfield Sobers was batting at the Kensington Oval, Brian Charles Lara was batting at Sabina Park, and Lawrence Rowe was...
A.J. Nicholson, opposition spokesman on foreign affairs and foreign trade, addressed the delegates during the opening ceremony of the fourth biennial Jamaican Diaspora Convention at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort...
Last week, as protesters chanted outside the Parliament building, the Greek government survived a confidence vote. This will enable it to proceed into this week's vote on its austerity package...
It is expected that parliamentarians will this week resume debate in the House on the special prosecutor bill, whose proposed powers too many MPs have been attempting to water down.This law will bring under single cover the separate bits of legislation...
Recently, I highlighted a number of education-reform programmes that proved successful in their bid to significantly improve student outcomes in school systems across the globe...
After first stumbling and then acting decisively to prevent economic depression on the eve of the 2008 election, the United States is now in a political-economic conundrum that could further erode its dominance. It was only two decades ago that Americans waxed triumphant about the fall of the Soviet Union, which left them as the single superpower.
The Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) has long acknowledged the fact that marriage is good for mortgages. This year, the company celebrates the 25th staging of the popular Marriage and the Family Series, which is always held in June, the traditional month of weddings and connubial bliss.
