Commentary

Usually, healing from drug addiction or similar destructive behaviour requires, first, admission of the problem and then mapping a clear strategy to recovery....

A few months ago, I breathed a sigh of relief when the tenure of the previous Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) president, Michael Stewart, came to an end...

The Arab spring, whose name is apt owing to the hotter temperatures it is carrying on its winds, advances deeper into the Middle East. It would have been an intrepid soul who would have predicted that Syria, one of the world's most ruthlessly efficient dictatorships, would find itself roiled by a citizen uprising.

In yesterday's Gleaner, Mr Damian Obiglio, the CEO of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the light and power company, was quoted as making the point that had the decision been his, coal would long have been the country's fuel of choice to fire its power plants to generate energy.

The entry of low-cost carrier REDjet into the airline industry of the Caribbean is a clear vindication of my position on a parallel issue I raised in a Sunday Gleaner article of March 11, 2011, titled 'Phoney concerns: no need for alarm on Digicel-Claro merger'.

The lead story in The Gleaner on Monday, April 18 indicated that over the last four years, Jamaica has tumbled 28 places on the World Economic Forum, Network Readiness Index (NRI). The NRI has mapped out the enabling factors driving network readiness, which is the capacity of countries to fully benefit from new technologies...

Now that Rev Devon Dick has dished out a second serving of his menu of misunderstandings concerning the biblical concepts of the Sabbath, Israel and God; and now, including Good Friday, I feel constrained, as a trained theologian, to raise the red flag and advise potential consumers that this diet may be bad for their spiritual health.

The visual acuity of Jack Warner, minister of works and transport (MOWT) in the new Trinidad and Tobago government responsible for air transport, is highly impressive. He does not see eye to eye with most people, especially those who accuse him of corrupt or underhand practices (and this includes the BBC and Andrew Jennings whose website www.transparencyinsport.org has a lot about Warner and FIFA).

Edna Manley occupies a special place in the realm of Jamaican art. Not only was she an outstanding sculptor who produced several masterpieces, but was an intellectual force behind, inspiration to, and patron of the art movement that paralleled the...

ARE YOU cracking an egg this Holy Thursday night? One of our long-time Easter traditions in Jamaica is that if you place the egg white in water tonight, by tomorrow, Good Friday, it will form a shape that can predict your future.

Below is feedback from online readers to yesterday's lead story in The Gleaner, titled 'Filthy'.inhumaneDespite the explanations given, I still think the powers that be are too accepting of the low standard prevailing at the Golden Age...

Bullet-proof vest? Check.Combat helmet? Check. .38mm pen and Moleskine writing pad? Check. An opinion that will, undoubtedly, draw the ire of many of my countrymen? Check.