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Jamaica is now likely to suffer a possible decline in foreign direct investment as a result of its dramatic 14-position fall in Transparency International's 2016 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) rankings.In the CPI rankings that were published last...

"Passing the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) is as important to me as another aircraft carrier," said former US defence secretary Ashton Carter two years ago as the negotiations on the huge new free trade organisation were nearing completion.Given...

My Gleaner article of January 8, 2017, 'Rebuilding trust: lie-detector tests for politicians?', sparked a significant number of responses from a range of people. Most persons agreed it would be a good start to rebuilding trust between the citizenry...

The famous Doomsday Clock set by the world's most eminent atomic scientists was set at two and a half minutes to midnight on Thursday, a 64-year high, partly because of Donald Trump's assuming the United States presidency.The symbolic clock, which...

"For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, andnothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."(Luke 8:17)As both a Christian and a child advocate, it is deeplydisturbing that it is the case of a Moravian pastor...

For all the greatness that clergymen and women impute to David and even describe him paradoxically as 'a man after God's own heart', I've never been a big fan of his. And no, it is not because he cheated in the fight against Goliath, but because he...

The problem of child sexual abuse is an endemic in Jamaica. And it has been for a long time. It is just that we are more sensitive about, and morally outraged by, this issue than previous generations.It was a couple of years ago that it dawned on me...

Donald Trump has been safely sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Some false prophets had been proclaiming that God told them that Trump would not make it to the White House even after being duly elected by the College of Electors....

We write in response to two articles appearing in The Gleaner over the past week under the byline of Professor Carolyn Cooper ('No beach for local tourist' and Diana McCaulay ('The problem of beach exclusion'). Both articles highlighted a real...

"Curtail some of my civil liberties in the interest of all. You can't have human rights if there is not a viable state."- Ian Boyne Societies change when language, leadership, and legislation coalesce to say enough is enough, we can't take it anymore...