Throwing out the baby with the bath water has never been a good idea, nor can dumping the Constituency Development Fund be justified because some dirt has been observed during the recent washing of its linen.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Fit to drive' about campaign to allow people who have epilepsy to drive.
In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Nicole, Jamaicans must now understand that it does not take a full-blooded hurricane to disrupt our lives and deliver damage to life and property.
Sometime soon, the Government and the private sector and, perhaps, trade unions will resume talks on the so-called Partnership for Progress agreement, with the aim of bringing some level of predictability to economic policy formulation...
POOR BARACK Obama must spend his spare moments watching old videos of election night 2008. Remember that feeling? He sure won't be getting it now. Later tomorrow, barring polling errors on a scale...
JAMAICA'S ECONOMIC underdevelopment is rooted in our failure to craft and implement a coherent national development strategy that is pivoted around the strength of our national resources....
CERTAINLY, WE don't want to provide incarcerated lawbreakers with five-star accommodations in prison, but what Horace (not his real name) related to me concerning his stint in prison was quite disturbing....
Below are excerpts from comments by our readers online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com to yesterday's lead story, 'Pricey places: Gov't spends big to put poor-performing students in private high schools'.It is worth itI only read the first sentence...
MANY PERSONS are not surprised that The Gleaner would find, within head of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, Dr Gladstone Hutchinson's proposal to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, another opportunity to broadside the parish councils, even while acknowledging the validity of the proposal itself.
WE NOTE the announcement by business groups, led by the Private Sector Organisation, of the readiness to resume social-contract talks - called Partnership for Progress - with the Government.
IF OPINION polls are to be believed, the Democratic Party is almost certain to lose control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday's mid-term Congressional elections in the United States of America and will have to fight to the bitter end to maintain the slightest majority in the Senate. This is in spite of the findings showing that Americans dislike congressional Republicans more than Democrats.
FOR OVER a year, 'Dudus', Manatt, Phelps & Phillips have been inseparably joined at the hip in the local and international media. These four names, tripping off the tongue, sound like partners in a respectable law firm doing legitimate business.
WHAT HAS happened to the traditional rhyme which would see October as "all (almost?) over?". The weather forecasters have just placed the Eastern Caribbean on alert for the 19th named storm of the season. The news reports from elsewhere remind us of the other natural hazards which have no season...
THE STUDENTS' Loan Bureau (SLB) has been the focus of attention this week, with Parliament approving a US$20-million loan guarantee to increase the pool of funds available for education loans.
THE TRINIDADIAN sense of humour is both a blessing and a curse. Regardless of the colour of the citizen in question, the humour is as black as a hearse and as funny as a stab in the back.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Paid to play', about the additional charges slapped on televangelist Paul Lewis.Where were the parents?Shouldn't the...
Appearances are important. Lord Chief Justice Hewart's famous statement that "it is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done...
Robert Fuderich, the resident representative of the United Nations Children Fund in Kingston, has made an observation that is critical to the current debate over how Jamaica allocates its education budget and what it ought to do in the future."..
Jassel Dunstan, my church brother and husband to Audrey Marks, the Jamaican ambassador to the United States, offered me tickets to attend the lecture to be given by William 'Bill' Clinton, 42nd president of the US and founder of the William ...
Jamaica, and particularly its government, hasn't had too much good news recently.So, the island's improvement on Transparency International's (TI) Corruption Perception Index will be welcomed.
Arguments concerning the recently announced commission of enquiry include a protest that the prime minister failed to consult with certain others before the appointment of commissioners.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's story 'The Cool Ruler dies'.FOLLOW THE LEADERSSingers these days in Jamaica need to follow the lead of people like Gregory, Bob,...
