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Published:Friday | August 18, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The events of Charlottesville last weekend and the reactions to them dramatise the paradox of America: The violence of the white supremacists shows the stubbornness of racism, but, most decisively also, how much public opinion has swung against it....

Published:Friday | August 18, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Some very interesting snapshot data have been rolled out by the most recent Gleaner-Bill Johnson polls. It's not quite election time yet, with three parliamentary seats now vacant from retirement and death, so the polls can focus on how the nation...

Published:Friday | August 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMDionne Jackson Miller

It's high time that Government heed the many calls for the long-promised amendments to the Access to Information (ATI) Act to be brought to Parliament, something that has been promised by successive administrations now for years.The Access to...

Published:Thursday | August 17, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica: the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business. This is the vision we have for our country by 2030, thirteen years from now. This is a noble vision and one to strive for. It means the creation of laws, policies and the...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) review of the 2010 west Kingston clashes has been brought to my attention, and I am very concerned by the false and misleading statements contained within this internal police review.In relation to my role as...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMWesley Morris

Many people regard Peter Murcott Bunting, member of parliament and opposition spokesperson on national security, as being a bright, successful businessman, banker and politician. They praise him for winning a safe JLP seat from former prime...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMTerrence Williams

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has an unfortunate practice of denying and disputing reports that identify its failings and encourage it to improve, whether it be international or local human rights organisations, commissions of Parliament, or...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I listen with alarm recently to Peter Bunting levelling a host of allegations against the Chinese companies working in Jamaica. While all of his allegations are frightening and significantly dangerous, not only to the Chinese...

Published:Thursday | August 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The drive upwards along Oliver Road is slow and laboured. Residents have long installed on the asphalted roadway 'sleeping policemen' about every 30 or so feet. There are many young men and boys hanging about, and some among a nest of bicycles are...

Published:Thursday | August 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The Vassalls were Huguenots who fled to England to escape persecution in France, settling in New England for a hundred years before entering the West Indies. Their mercantile activities, however, included supplying slaves to Barbados. This was only...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The following article was submitted by Rani Young on behalf of a group referring to themselves as Friends of Senator Ruel Reid.Sunday Gleaner columnist Daniel Thwaites went to great lengths last week to provide another example of how someone would...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The Comrades in 'Zimbabwe' (Arnett Gardens) should be ashamed of themselves that it took a Labourite (in this case, the prime minister) to mount a rescue mission into their community to protect one of their own after one of her daughters was...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

When I sent off this column to be published, the relays had not yet been run, but I would have stuck out my neck and said that we are up against a big challenge in the 4x100s. However, the Americans will be surprised as to how good we are in the...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

What was Jamaica like in 1962? We continue taking a peek from the Handbook of Jamaica for that year.The Handbook listed the 41 government grant-aided high schools, 17 of them boarding schools turning out a handful of graduates immediately qualified...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

If a pin dropped in Jamaica, no, the world, two Saturdays ago after the 100m at the World Championships, it would have sounded like a bullet. Usain Bolt ran in a race and did not win.I was among the few who were not too surprised. For me, Mr Bolt,...

Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 6:13 PM

THE EDITOR, Sir:I have sat for the last few days watching my production workers twiddle their thumbs as critical raw material needed for my production process sits on the wharf, as truckers wait patiently to get these containers pulled.I sat and...

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

My friend and erstwhile colleague, Carolyn Cooper, and other purveyors of the Jamaican language would have no issue with my saying, "Mi Bain tell unoo so!" As it was 2014, when the story broke, I bet that some of you are surprised that I am engaging...

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Jamaicans will today flock to the Grand Gala at the National Stadium. There has been quite a hustle for tickets. We love song and dance. But don't mistake our passion for celebration with enduring national pride.Our Emancipendence celebration is...

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

You could talk to the older heads. Thumb through the pages of The Daily Gleaner for that year when the paper was already 127 years old. Or skim the pages of several other periodicals, and there were several being published then, few of which have...

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

I am particularly disturbed by essential elements of the Rev Al Miller's argument in his July 31 article titled 'The plain truth about the buggery law' published in the Observer. Though I have various concerns, it is his comments about the Jamaica...

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

One of Jamaica's finest public servants is a man named Herbert Samuel ('Herbie') Walker.Herbie was born on February 29, 1924. His public-service achievements are seminal but made all the more remarkable in that they came with an unshakable personal...

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

For the many persuasive spiritual, moral and pragmatic arguments being made for keeping the buggery law in place, the most compelling is the case for Jamaica's children and youth.First and foremost is the matter of the significant increase in the...

Published:Friday | July 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Poor Booklist Boyne worked himself into such a lather (June 25,' Ignore critics, pass anti-crime bill now') that I feared for his health.He was particularly disturbed about contributions to the national debate from what he alternatively called "...

Published:Friday | July 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The incendiary controversy over Jamaica's buggery law is political, not moral or practical. No biblically defensible argument can be advanced against repealing it, nor would its repeal ensure a change in homosexuals' health-seeking behaviour.People...

Published:Friday | July 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

This is the last Sunday before Emancipendence, and I feel like I should tell some people about their Madras cloth, and that goes for the big cats, the little Kitty and a slightly talent-free entertainer who seeks equal rights. Alternatively, I...

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