After visiting friends in Glengoffe, I headed for home.There was a ridiculously long delay in Lawrence Tavern because it was absolutely clogged with buses, minibuses and route taxis.
A week ago, we offered to the gangs of Gordon House a path to recovery from the organisations whose self-serving behaviour over the last half-century has kept us in underdevelopment, into political parties focused primarily on the national interest....
I write to allay concern over reports of a reduction in the allocation of recurrent expenditure for the Office of the Public Defender, in the Estimates of Expenditure for the financial year, April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012.
Canadians queue up today to cast their votes in an election that, in its dying days, went from prosaic to dramatic.One doesn't normally expect this of elections in a country lauded the world over for its political civility, politeness and, well,...
Mr Roger Clarke is a competent and successful sugar farmer of the old school, a jovial personality and decent human being, who is, no doubt, well liked by his parliamentary constituents.
The announcement by Scotiabank (BNS) a few days ago that it would cut lending rates to its best customers by one point, from 16.75 per cent to 15.75 per cent, was big news.
If God, the supreme judge, doesn't speak Patwa, I'm really sorry for all those people in Jamaica and abroad who appeal to Him/Her every single day and night for divine guidance.
THE EDITOR, Sir:Peter Espeut's Gleaner article of April 29 2011, titled 'Misusing the Bible', was another anti-Sabbatarian swipe at the Ten Commandments.
THE EDITOR, Sir:I highly commend Mr Alphansus Davis for his well-worded, level-headed response to those irascible people exhibiting tantrum because the minister of education will not let them...
There is no surprise at the consensus among corporate leaders and technocrats hosted by this newspaper last week that Jamaica's high energy cost is a monumental drag on the country's economy.At the US$0.30 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) they have to pay for...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I first met Franz 'Gerry' Alexander in the early 1990s, shortly after he returned to Jamaica upon his retirement from his job with International Institute of Cooperation on Agriculture in the Eastern Caribbean.
American and British soldiers have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for about the same length of time, and their casualty rates have been about the same...
I have been watching from the sidelines the latest match between the Christian Contenders, with Sabbatarian coming out swinging against Sunday worshipper...
On Wednesday, Minister Daryl Vaz called JDIP the "saviour to Jamaica's infrastructure". But will it save your road? Send us photos of your pothole-riddled road and ask Transport Minister Mike Henry if yours will be saved...
On April 1, All Fools' Day, Patrick Bailey, attorney-at-law representing Dr Ronald Robinson, a former senator and minister of state, asked Prime Minister Bruce Golding why he did not ask Robinson to reconsider his resignation.
Finance Minister Audley Shaw will have many issues with which to deal when he opens the Budget Debate today and explains how he will finance the Government's $545-billion Budget and meet the deficit target of 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product....
"Oh to be in England now that's April's there," pined English poet Robert Browning while away from his homeland in 1845. England is certainly the place to be come tomorrow...
JAMAICA SHOULD do more than contemplate taking the case of Shanique Myrie to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Kingston should proceed with the action...
"GIVE THANKS and praises we are 25".For some reason, I'm remembering the days, in 1987, when those words resonated incessantly in my young brain. As a 7-year-old I couldn't completely...
RELIGION HAS always been, and continues to be, very important to Caribbean people.The people of the Caribbean, and in particular Jamaica, have used religion for varied reasons over the years.
STUPIDITY HAS been extremely busy in recent times, sharing residence with the Registrar General's Department (RGD) and the Passport Office in Jamaica.Here's what is happening to some Jamaicans wishing to renew their passports....
