Commentary

Standing out like a gangrenous thumb in the positive economic outlook that the Government tried to serve up during its annual conference last weekend was the stark fact that the economy has bled badly and continues to bleed from the woefully inept management of several government-owned-and-controlled commercial enterprises.

CANON WEEVILLE GORDON, the clergyman and energetic public servant who passed on earlier this week, will be remembered as one who served his religious calling, not only by scriptural proclamation, but by deep involvement in the life of the community ...

If you want to know the secrets of the universe, you have to use string theory. Incredibly, the same holds for Victoria's Secret. I am no theoretical physicist like Dr Michio Kaku, but I found out that it does not take an Einstein...

It seems odd that having taken a year to negotiate a contract that he said wouldn't have the flaws of the previous incumbent, Finance Minister Audley Shaw couldn't this week give the full salary of the present central bank governor, Mr Brian Wynter....

We have not arrived at a definitive position on the matter, but confess, like Opposition Leader, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller, to having deep unease over the Government's intention to move the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) from Up Park to...

During his fleeting visit to Jamaica last week, Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, repeated a suggestion that he made shortly after inauguration in the summer.

On Sunday, Arnold Bertram, historian and former Cabinet minister, wrote on the Jamaican higglers and ended his article by claiming that Bogle prepared the peasants "for a military confrontation ...

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's front page story, 'Dutch want truth: Portia, PNP officials to answer investigators on Trafigura affair'.I am ashamedHow can the country move...

Happily, and unlike in the case of the Americans and the alleged crime boss, Mr Christopher Coke, there is no claim of mishandling of intercepted communication. So, the Central Authority, to wit, the attorney general and justice minister, Ms Dorothy...

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's front page story 'Conspiracy of lies, says Robertson'.A time to shut upMr (James) Robertson, does not listen well.

This newspaper makes no comment about the merits of the allegations against the mining and energy minister, James Robertson, of which Prime Minister Golding conceded that he is disturbed.Ian Johnson, a former Jamaica Labour Party activist in Mr...

There's an old Irish joke which asks how many people stay sober at a wake. The answer is one, the corpse. That kind of sardonic humour is, no doubt, serving the Irish well these days.