In Focus

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...