Commentary

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Pusey stays - judge rejects DPP's request; refuses to end Kern trial'.Unfortunate headline...

We confess that the recent elections within the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the fluid alliances they seem to suggest have left us confused about the direction of the party and the ultimate strength of its leader, Prime Minister Bruce...

The decision of the director of public prosecution (DPP) to proceed with action against a senior resident magistrate after the Supreme Court dismissed the application is unfortunate.

WITH ALL due respect to 2011, you're simply an opening act, a prelude, an appetiser, the undercard, a sideshow. You're the Cuban Light Bulb Scandal to Trafigura; Dual Citizenship to 'Dudusgate'; Asafa to Usain (wait, Asafa has Yendi); you're Usain...

AS A journalist, I love to delve into unclassified information, but I don't particularly like to read other people's mail.I would not like anyone to peruse my personal information. Who among us would be comfortable with their most private utterances...

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Franklin triumphs - vanquished Vaz vows to be a team player'.Vaz misread popularityVaz continues to misread the extent...

There is not a Jamaican of goodwill anywhere who would not wish to see the incidence of prostate cancer reduced or eliminated or wish ill of anyone who undertook an enterprise with such a lofty...

The international community must be prodded and cajoled into delivering the more than US$10 billion it pledged in long-term aid for the rebuilding of Haiti, which was devastated by earthquake and is now undergoing the stress of a cholera epidemic.

Last week, a massive trove of American classified documents were released by Wikileaks, and published by the UK's Guardian newspaper.

If education were simply a matter of attending classes, Latin America and Caribbean would have already done its homework.

Jamaicans' vacillation about vital questions affecting our development is nowhere more evident than in how we have danced around critical decisions regarding adjustments to how we use energy.

It is surprising that it hasn't happened before, and that its orchestration is by a private finance house and a university rather than a government of the sub region.