Commentary

Caribbean Marketplace 2011, the premier marketing event on the calendar of the Caribbean tourist industry, is taking place at the new convention centre in Montego Bay, starting today.

Jamaica has been slow to take advantage of its rich history and construct an image of a country whose culture and identity set it apart from its regional rivals.For years, we have primed our island on its natural beauty...

If all the food in the world were shared out evenly, there would be enough to go around. That has been true for centuries now: if food was scarce, the problem was that it wasn't in the right place, but there was no global shortage. However, that will not be true much longer.

Below is feedback from online readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com on the war of words between the Fair Trading Commission and the Jamaica Bankers' Association over bank fees.let's teach banks a lessonThe banks are raping customers.

ALTHOUGH PARLIAMENTARIANS deserve commendation for pro-posing several reforms to Jamaica's libel and defamation laws, they should be pooh-poohed for attempting to leave intact the status quo ...

ON SUNDAY, Clyde Edwards, leading churchman, along with a co-host on LOVE FM, discussed the recent destruction by fire of the historic Mount Carey Baptist Church.

DR ERROL Miller, in a research exercise conducted some years ago, concluded that a significant number of Jamaican students had career goals that were quite unrealistic when one considered their academic attainment and their plans...

Below is feedback from online readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com on the shooting of Honduran fishers.Paying consequencesBased on what is being reported, I support the Jamaican Coastguard 100 per cent.

Within a matter of weeks, the People's National Party (PNP) has lost three stalwarts who served Parliament at about the same time, after it rebounded from its 1980 loss and won the last national election in that decade,...

Judging from Mr Christopher Zacca's remarks, when the energy minister, Mr James Robertson, was yanked from the leadership of the Government's energy-conversion project, there was no clear technical path for the transition from oil to liquefied natural...

Here we go again. 'Cowboy' Christie, like a modern Don Quixote, is again on the lookout for windmills at which to tilt.

The growing concern about the quality of teaching at our early-childhood, primary and secondary levels has prompted Nadine Molloy, the Jamaica Teachers' Association president, to call for an improvement in teacher quality.