In Focus

Grade 10 in high school can be a pleasurable place in terms of deeper involvement in academic work, athletic pursuits, bonding with friends, getting to know the opposite sex, and thinking seriously about a career path.Other times, if a child is...

Two seminal thinkers whose ideas on economics have had the greatest impact on the world, and who were founders of rival schools of economic thought, were philosophers Adam Smith, father of capitalism, and Karl Marx, father of communism. Today, sadly...

Guest columnist Milton Wray made a number of inaccurate assertions in the article titled 'Save the pharmacy sector', published in The Sunday Gleaner of October 1, 2017.Arising from this article, the National Health Fund (NHF) has received feedback...

... When a government of the same men and women sign a contract for $626 million to repair the Junction road in the middle of an election campaign, why should not the political ombudsman, the contractor general, the NCC, the parliamentary Opposition...

Jamaicans can become carried away with temporary authority and are prone to inflating its scope.Recent hyperbole regarding the offices of the political ombudsman (PO) and contractor general (CG) has rekindled these unfortunate tendencies. Under a...

So the big man has cast a relatively large shadow Cabinet and has clearly put his own stamp and flavour on the People's National Party (PNP) as it waits with 'baited' breath for the next general election. Of course, the election is not due for...

When he died in 1813, Simon Taylor, a Creole Jamaican born in Kingston, was the richest man in Jamaica and reputedly among the wealthiest in Britain.His father, Patrick, had migrated to the island from England and over time became a prosperous...

In a democratic society where cut and thrust and advocacy are important, it matters who opposition spokespersons are and how carefully they are chosen. In that regard, Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips has provided the country with a healthy blend...

The US administration is now back from its summer break and Washington, DC is again humming on many policy platforms. At the embassy, much of our time was consumed over the last two months with the diaspora conferences and Independence events that...

The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA), in response to a recent article by Yvonne McCalla Sobers, would like to clarify points that have come out of that commentary and establish the aim of their youth ganja public-education campaign.#TalkDiTruth...

Two Fridays ago when 24-year-old Tremayne Brown saw a young child being washed away by the raging floodwaters rushing along in the Collie Smith Drive gully, not a moment was spared in him jumping into the unknown dangers of the quickly moving run-...

I regard Martin Henry as one of the better commentators in your newspaper. However, in his article 'Hurricanes and climate change' (The Sunday Gleaner, September 10, 2017), he appears to have fallen into a trap set by USA right-wing think tanks...