This newspaper has the highest regard for Mr Edwin Carrington, the Trinidadian national who served for 18 years as secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), until his retirement last December.That the Community, during Mr Carrington's...
I am sure that many persons who are giving opinions on the controversial Christiana road project have never tried to walk or drive through that town on any day of the week, especially on a market day...
I am an unapologetic cricket fan.And even in these tumultuous times when West Indies cricket appears to be crawling on all fours, there is a small part of me that wants to put aside the layers of disappointment and simply pay homage to the power of this great game.
Unfortunately, much of what emerged from last month's retreat in Guyana of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders was, as usual, imprecise and opaque...
The domino game was once again threatening to descend into anarchy when Haemorrhoid turned up. Gene Autry hadn't been available and my substitute partner, Jimmy Hunchback (the world's worst but also luckiest domino ...
The prima facie evidence suggests that Jamaica remains as corrupt under the Golding administration as under his predecessor. Or, perhaps more to the point, corruption, both in fact and perception, is deeply entrenched in Jamaica...
There was a time when Jamaica had no viable political party in opposition. For years, the People's National Party (PNP) cruised repeatedly back into power because the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) sabotaged itself again and again.
The protracted delay in settling the dispute between the Government and its employees over the implementation of a contractual agreement is troubling, and gives the impression of a lack of sincerity on the part...
What is clear to me after serving as principal of a secondary school for 11 years is that students who come from stable home environments, with both mother and father who are involved in their children's development, generally do better academically, socially, emotionally and mentally than students who do not have this stable background.
There has been a bit of an unsophisticated response to The Gleaner's publishing of material, obtained via the non-profit whistle-blower entity, WikiLeaks, which the US Embassy in Kingston describes as "alleged cables that purport to include classified information".
If radiation from cellphones is "possibly carcinogenic", as recently concluded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Jamaicans may be among the most vulnerable.
The producers of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival really ought to go back to the drawing board and rethink the concept. TurnKey Productions, the United States-based company that has been staging the festival right from the start, needs to change key.
We are always cautious to recommend or support, in the absence of negotiations, the abrogation of contracts, especially on the part of governments involving commercial agreements that have been entered into by the parties in good faith. Our position rests primarily on two planks.
What it will take to achieve industrial peace among public-sector workers is the question on many minds this weekend as unions seem set to harden their positions for the Government to promptly settle their wage dispute.
The Government of Jamaica should withdraw from the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, or the convention should ask them to withdraw.
It is incumbent upon me to respond to the Letter of the Day on Wednesday, May 18. As chairman of the Kingston Free Zone, I wish to make it quite clear that efforts have been made to facilitate new clients as speedily as possible.
Some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant. Then there are days when everything is collapsing around you and it is a total mess or 'dog's breakfast'.
Some political spinners dismiss the WikiLeaks cables as insignificant because, they say, the correspondence does not reflect the official policy of the US government, but just what certain US government staffers are thinking...
At a cost of J$800,000 a metre, or approximately J$244,000 a foot, the new road being built in Christiana, Manchester, which Usain Bolt, at his best, would traverse in under 96 seconds, must be among the most expensive bits of real estate...
No matter how we try to deny it, we cannot escape the reality that the JLP and the PNP both treat Jamaica as a huge trough from which their members should feed when they are in control of the reins of power...
ON MONDAY, a popular professional woman made a certain accusation about Keith Clarke as it relates to Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who is now in the United States awaiting trial on drug and gun-related charges...
We note with sadness the death of Colonel Trevor MacMillan, the former Jamaica Defence Force officer who later became commissioner of police and served briefly as national security minister in Prime Minister Bruce Golding's Cabinet....
There has undoubtedly been, in recent years, greater effort and some gains by the Jamaican authorities to cure the problem of corruption in the island's constabulary and other sections of the country's security apparatus.Indeed, the work of Mr Justin...
THE BAUXITE/ALUMINA industry has been given some of the credit by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) for an increase in economic activity during the first quarter 2011.The report indicates that output in mining and quarrying was up by 38.8 per...
