Various dictionaries define a gullible person as someone 'easily deceived or duped', 'easily taken in or tricked', 'easily persuaded to believe something', and 'easily deceived or cheated'...
The following is a response by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to a column by Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture, Roger Clarke, which was published in The Gleaner on Friday, May 6.Two weeks ago, the ministry reported that domestic crop...
Maybe Mr Emil George has it within him to conjure up one, but this newspaper can discern no useful or credible reason to delay debate on a parliamentary censure motion against the former national security minister, Dr Peter Phillips....
You couldn't fall farther or faster than Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He was not only the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Until last weekend, he was almost certainly within a year of being elected president of France....
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, principal of the Cave Hill campus of the UWI and a director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), is a leading historian, administrator, cricket luminary and advocate for reparations for persons of African origin.
We note, with concern, the escalating dispute between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic over what is being reasonably construed as Santo Domingo's use of non-tariff barriers to keep Jamaica's Portland cement from its market.Jamaica's commerce minister,...
We, the citizens of Barrington Drive, Rosedale Drive and Bellemar Place, are using this medium to plead with Mike Henry, minister of transport and works, to effect repairs to these roads, which have been neglected for more than...
Many discussions have been held as to whether or not Mr Christopher Gayle, former West Indies cricket captain, should or should not have been referred to as a don by a member of the West Indies Cricket Board...
The West Indies victory over Pakistan on Sunday was a lifesaver for the Caribbean team.If we had lost that match, after keeping the visitors at bay on the first day, and almost throwing it away on the second, leaving us with a sleepless night ...
Harold Camping, an American Christian radio- show host, predicts that Judgement Day will descend on us this Saturday, May 21.If Mr Camping is right, on Saturday, just as many of us are tuning in to NBA play-off basketball...
The foreign Affairs minister, Dr Ken Baugh, is right about Jamaica's diaspora being a repository of capital, skills and contacts which can be leveraged for investment in, and the development of, Jamaica.That is why this newspaper has long supported...
Two of Jamaica's most celebrated athletes have brought good news to the nation in recent days. First, Veronica Campbell-Brown launched her foundation to benefit young Jamaican women by providing resources to assist in their education and through mentorship.
An open letter to PM Golding: I write in view of The Gleaner's most appropriate highlighting of the 'Gangs of Gordon House', and a prior query by Member of Parliament Ronnie Thwaites whether the Manatt-Coke commission of enquiry would have investigated...
Hilarious Heckles was wrong to equate Christopher Gayle to Dudus.I know.Just the word 'don', with the regrettably violent connotations, was inappropriate. I know. But let's not get carried away with recriminations...
We have great sympathy for the position of the Portland Parish Council and others who last week blocked the Jamaica Railway Corporation's (JRC) attempt to remove from the parish an old locomotive engine, carriages and other railway equipment...
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has done what might be viewed in some quarters as the gentlemanly thing and expressed regret at what he says is his misinterpreted reference to Christopher Henry Gayle as being 'the don' of West Indies cricket...
In The Gleaner's editorial of Thursday, May 12, it mentioned energy was apparently not to be at "the forefront of Mr Golding's strategic thinking during his Budget presentation" and the general "lack of specificity, and only cursory...
When a distressed and distraught patient complained that, as part of her job-required physical, she had to submit herself to blood tests that included mandatory HIV-antibody screening and sign a document agreeing that the results should go to her new...
For the better part of two decades, Jamaica has threatened to overhaul its tax system to create one that is equitable and conducive to investment and growth. Policymakers pull back at the brink, fearful of political consequences of acting and possible...
For so many years, the business/ entrepreneurial community has been screaming at the Government to make Jamaica more business-friendly. Both PNP and JLP governments have promised to do just that...
So, al-Qaida, already a shadow of its former self, has lost its leader. Having failed to carry out a successful attack on US soil in the decade since 9/11, it might appear that the US can finally declare, 'mission accomplished'.
A year ago, when the Golding administration was still busy with the yarn for resisting the extradition of Christopher Coke, it was the muscle of civil society that galvanised it into action. Later, when there was the sense the Government was being parsimonious with the facts that informed its decisions, civil society again demanded the truth.
These incendiary lyrics are not the words of Sizzla, Anthony B, Capleton, or any of the 'fire bun' Bobo dreads whose metaphors inflame today's dancehall consciousness. The rhetoric is vintage Bob Marley: Revolution, from the 1974 Natty Dread album.
