Commentary

THE EDITOR, Sir:I am in total support of the letter in yesterday's Gleaner by Robin Baston, arguing that the night-noise law must remain.

Below are excerpted comments by online readers in response to yesterday's Page 3 story, 'War of words'.Stop the 'tracing', kdInstead of asking questions, Mr Knight is 'tracing' the witness.

The recent amendment to the Terrorism Prevention Act (TPA) is good news for the country. However, the process of how the amendment was moved is an embarrassing reminder that our legislature and the official organs of State still struggle...

The popular Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships is not without its problems and ever so often some groups rage against the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), the organisers of the meet...

MUTABARUKA, POET and talk-show host, speaking recently at the United Theological College, highlighted that the Bible was written by men and questioned why no woman has written a book (March 27)...

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding told Parliament what everyone already knew - that the bill for the commission of enquiry into the Christopher Coke extradition affair will be higher than the J$37 million that was originally budgeted....

They say that when your age 'drops off the calendar' you're no longer young.Well, today is the first day of my last year of youth. Perhaps I can mimic the calendar and begin again at one, next year. But then I'd have to relive some of the more difficult moments...

Early in the sittings of the commission of enquiry into the 1990s collapse of Jamaica's financial sector, this newspaper warned the commissioners that their posture and seemingly free-for-all approach to the proceedings gave the impression...

As the story goes, one community became so heavily armed over the last 20 years that some would say it challenged the authority of the State. It is said that criminals (and even some businessmen) truly believed that affiliation with 'Presi'...

Once again, the lazy, linear, lame-brained local media seem determined to miss the national point.And the Madantz commission is only too happy to accommodate this national refusal to focus on the fundamental issue...

I must sound like a cracked record, or should I say a scratched CD, but I see the 'nobodies' that suffer unnecessarily and even die prematurely because of the current public health-care system.

This newspaper is not unmindful of Jamaica's need for foreign investment in broad segments of the economy and the impact that such inflows can, and do, have on job creation.In that regard, we welcomed UC Rusal's...