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Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

I DON'T make New Year's resolutions. I don't understand why anyone does. They say a promise is a comfort to a fool. A New Year's resolution is simply a promise to one's self.

Published:Tuesday | December 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

It's home-grown Domino Awards time.Remember, hold onto your sense of humour to safely negotiate the roller-coaster ride.

Published:Tuesday | December 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The great and urgent challenge facing the Golding administration, or anyone who forms the Government, is finding an economic game-changer - something that delivers the country from its long imprisonment by low growth and constricting...

Published:Tuesday | December 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

"The face of new corruption" is one in a long line of such columns. Nary a day passes without us witnessing some enraged voice bemoaning the corruption in our society, or some writer thrashing our corrupt leaders. Despite all our protestations, the insidious rot of corruption spreads.

Published:Tuesday | December 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

While no individual or institution can claim exclusive custody of the legacy of our national hero, Marcus Garvey there should be some who experience disappointment when the great man's name is used in support of a cause without...

Published:Monday | December 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

After the Rose Bowl is over and the hangover has passed, President Obama will awake to a new political landscape in the new year...

Published:Monday | December 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

I used to believe that 'eternity' represented the passage of more time than our mortal minds could ever begin to comprehend. But, one day it occurred to me that time is strictly a physical entity...

Published:Monday | December 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica a first-Class Nation?!WE DISCUSSED in a previous column (December 1) that the first step toward national transformation of this Jamaica land we love, must simply be: "Every citizen a first-class citizen, maximum respect for everyone!"...

Published:Monday | December 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The decision by the attorney general of the Cayman Islands, Sam Bulgin, against prosecuting the Cayman Compass newspaper and its journalist, Brent Fuller, is welcome and sensible.Mr Bulgin's decision, however, does not resolve the more fundamental...

Published:Sunday | December 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Commercialised Christmas is a term that became familiar to me as an adult.Growing up in Chapelton, Clarendon, I had no such consciousness. My memories of Christmas bring back feelings of warmth...

Published:Sunday | December 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Christmas means different things to different people but the fact is, whether our experience of the event is positive or negative, nobody ignores it or is neutral about it.

Published:Sunday | December 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean's standing in the world, moreso that of the English-speaking countries, is slipping fast as our political influence wanes and the cracks in the region's economies are exposed.

Published:Sunday | December 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

It's the time of the year when people make wish lists and tend to be more reflective. Between the drinking, partying, socialising and fraternising, some get a little time to think about life...

Published:Sunday | December 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM

In a recent address to the Cornwall Bar Association, Justice Patrick Robinson blamed a colonial mentality for the failure of Jamaicans to abolish appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and embrace the Caribbean Court of Justice...

Published:Friday | December 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Either it is that Mayor Desmond McKenzie has a problem with short-term memory, or the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables represent one grand global hoax. Or, perhaps it is that Mr Isiah Parnell, the chargé d'affaires of the United States mission...

Published:Friday | December 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by online readers at www.jamaica-gleanerjm.com to Wednesday's lead story 'WikiLeaks embroils Nelson, Lewin in new war of words'.Facts or conjecture?Truth is found by comparison...

Published:Friday | December 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Ian Boyne is now not alone.In his campaign against Christmas, he has just been joined by dub poet and television talk-show host Mutabaruka, who I heard last week describe as "a big lie to fool up black people"...

Published:Friday | December 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

We wish the Golding administration would make up its mind on something, including what institution it wants to be Jamaica's court of last resort.When Prime Minister Bruce Golding's party was the Opposition and the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was...

Published:Friday | December 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says the word most searched for online this year was 'austerity' which means "enforced or extreme economy".

Published:Thursday | December 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

On November 22, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada, began hearing a Constitutional Reference on polygamy.

Published:Thursday | December 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

'Twas the night before Christmas and the hosts of Heaven were on their toes as they waited in anticipation of what would be the world's most significant event since the act of creation.There was subdued excitement along the great...

Published:Thursday | December 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

On the day that downtown Kingston marked 'Christmas in the City' with the shopping spree, my friend Marcel related that he parked his car with the aid of a young man.

Published:Thursday | December 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Last week's formal announcement by the premier of the Cayman Islands, Mr McKeeva Bush, that his country would ease its visa restrictions on Jamaicans is a move in the right direction that Kingston should encourage by reciprocating with even more than...

Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

I SUSPECT that Santa Claus is very busy right now in preparation for his long journey starting on Christmas Eve, but I wanted to be assured that he had read my email.

Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE JAMAICA Labour Party's (JLP) Shahine Robinson was, in Monday's by-election, returned as the parliamentary representative for the constituency of North East St Ann, although Mr Devon Evans of the little-known Marcus Garvey People's Progressive Party...

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