Commentary

Below are excerpted comments from online readers to The Gleaner's editorial yesterday, titled 'Bureaucracy must liberate itself from gangs of Gordon House'.Analyse cultureThis series of editorials, aimed at the core issues that should be...

There was a last-ditch effort, in the Senate, by some to add to the Charter of Rights a clause which would make discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and language unconstitutional.

Much heat has been generated from the recent remarks made by the security minister that the Noise Abatement Act is to be reviewed. The minister seemed to have been at a party where some good music and fine liquor was flowing...

This Lenten season offers an opportunity to examine ourselves and repent of our sins. Lent begins at Ash Wednesday and ends 40 days later on Good Friday, when the Sundays are not included. Ash Wednesday is so named as it is a custom ...

Congratulations are in order for the organisers and students who contributed to the successful staging of last week's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Athletics Championships for student...

A year ago, as the Jamaican Government prevaricated and dithered over America's request for the extradition of reputed gangster Christopher Coke, it was the combined insistence of civil-society organisations that galvanised the administration...

Years ago, I promised myself never to watch another Worst Indies cricket match.Yet, at 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23, I found myself watching as the cricket clowns earned yet another crucial defeat...

BY THE time Jamaicans next vote in a general election, Bruce Golding, the prime minister, will be 65. Portia Simpson Miller will be heading towards her 67th birthday...

Below are excerpted comments from readers of The Gleaner's website, www.jamaica-gleaner.com, to yesterday's exposé on the neglect of the elderly and disabled at the Golden Age Home in Kingston.Shame on you!Shame on you, workers.

Recently, I used this column to complain that the prime minister was sending the wrong message to our people, and especially to our future leaders. Ignoring the Constitution of Jamaica and allowing five members...

The latest hot topic in local business circles is the set of proposals from government planners aimed at inducing economic growth, which has been hit by three years of continuous decline, rising poverty and unemployment. It is going to be a mammoth task to breathe new life into the Jamaican economy...

The recent marathon cross-examination of our attorney general (AG), though in her capacity as minister of justice, has caused right-thinking persons who are interested in the matter of how our Constitution is made to work in practice to revisit the issue of whether, in a highly polarised society such as Jamaica, we should have an attorney general who is not only selected by the Government, but sits in the Cabinet.