Family members usually rush to each other's side during an emergency to render assistance and relieve the other's suffering. And so it is with the international community - after calamities one can expect compassion...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's editorial 'Enforce the law'.Yes, along with harsh punishmentI agree totally that the laws must be enforced.
Under siege from the Republican's loony-bin (calling itself the 'Tea Party') who dominated United States mid-term elections handing the GOP the House majority, Democrats have panicked.Although it more resembles Wonderland's...
I am deeply saddened by the passing of my dear friend and close colleague of many decades, Professor Barry Chevannes. As an academic, Barry joined the UWI staff in 1973 and we admired him as he became an outstanding teacher...
At best the police, while focusing on hard crime for more than a generation, have been sporadic and tentative in the enforcement of the 'softer', quality-of-life laws.
United States President Barack Obama represents the new face and ideas so badly needed in American politics. He opened eyes, ears, minds and hearts. I also believe that he is a sincere man who keeps the best interest of America...
It seems sometimes that for every step we take forward, we take two backwards. I remember the problems being experienced with students hanging out at the bus stops in Half-Way Tree, some at the Mother's bus stop on Hagley Park Road, others at Molynes Road, and still others on Eastwood Park Road.
Politicians, conscious that their hold on power is at the mercy of voters, are always, in the aftermath of defeat, ready to offer the obligatory proclamation of the infallibility of the electorate, even in instances when voters...
Why are all our budget-fixing geniuses treating expenditure cuts like a visit from the mother-in-law?Everybody seems to think that we can only reduce the deficit by spending more, raising taxes...
Long ago, in those suppos-edly innocent times before the rise of dancehall slack-ness, we used to chant a rather rude little verse in primary school that I still remember perfectly well.
Once again, the intellectual community of Jamaica and the wider Caribbean has lost one of its leaders. The death on Friday of Professor Emeritus Alston Barrington Chevannes, coming after the passing in February of Professor Rex Nettleford, is a double loss for the region.
Speculation is rife that recent robberies of jewellery stores in the nation's capital are linked to the lucrative cash-for-gold business that is fuelled by the high demand for the commodity that now sells for a...
A statistician is a mathematician broken down by age and sex, and statistics, according to Mark Twain, are like ladies of the night - once you get them down you can do anything with them.
In an article published in The Sunday Gleaner last, Professor Trevor Munroe, director of the National Integrity Action Forum, seems elated at the improvement over previous years in Jamaica's score and global ranking in the 2010 Corruption Perception...
American voters gave the Democrats a drubbing this week in the hotly contested midterm elections for congressional, state and local offices. President Barack Obama described the results as a "shellacking" and many are already writing...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Bridgewater committed to stamping out corruption'.Undiplomatic languageI find the ambassador's comments rather troubling.
Last week, the Honourable Michael 'Mike' Fennell, Calabar old boy, was awarded The Gleaner Award for services in sports administration, subsequent to the successful staging of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Celebrated Jamaican poet, Lorna Goodison, in her poem For My Mother, describes a strong, self-sacrificing woman who could "feed 20 people on a stew made from fallen-from-the-head cabbage leaves and a carrot and a chocho...
With Tomas playing hide and seek up to Tuesday (when this article was written), Jamaicans are on edge as we try to track the whereabouts of this late-season storm.To have a hurricane or even a tropical storm in November is...
Dr Warren Smith's election by the board of governors to be the next president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) marks a deserved elevation of a son of Jamaica, tinged with a bit of sadness and a small dose of irony.When people discuss Caribbean...
Last week I readied my new suit, polished my old shoes and held my BlackBerry near, eagerly anticipating a phone call. Former US President Bill Clinton was speaking in St Andrew and, as a Gleaner contributor...
The voice of the smooth crooner Gregory Isaacs is now silent. The unmistakable vocals that thrilled music lovers for decades will, however, be remembered for a very long time. He has made sure of that by producing more than 500 albums...
Crop diversification in traditional banana-growing areas of the country is giving renewed hope to farmers who saw their livelihood disappear in a haze of manoeuvres by international market forces to end protection for Caribbean bananas entering...
One left us on Sunday, October 25. The other visited on Monday, October 26. William Jefferson Clinton (né William Jefferson Blythe III) delivered a powerful message to Jamaica last week.
