Today is the 150th anniversary of the Morant Bay Rebellion, and I believe that both the British government and our local leaders need a reminder of our history. Morant Bay was about a detached and insensitive colonial government that did not care...
I stood among thousands of Jamaicans on Sunday evening, September 27, in Half-Way Tree, who were supporting The CAUSE - (Church Action Uniting Society for Emancipation ). These thousands were giving voice to what we, and thousands of other Jamaicans...
Recently, the deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Min Zhu, in a report on Jamaica's economic performance, admitted that while Jamaica was meeting its benchmark targets, economic growth was weak and job-creation efforts...
Dr Michael Abrahams is entitled to his opinion that the recently held Jamaica CAUSE Rally in Half-Way Tree was an indication of 'misplaced priorities', especially as such relates to the 'anti-gay agenda' (see Gleaner online article on Monday,...
You would have seen the ad appearing here and there: "One Nation. One Mission. We are one team working together to make Jamaica a safer place. Let's work together." A dozen agencies falling under the Ministry of National Security are featured. If...
1. The proposed construction of Jamaica's newest prison by a foreign government has attracted a series of observations, most of which have rightfully raised serious questions of economics and law, and the minister of national security has made it...
When British Prime Minister David Cameron came bringing gifts last week, I was lining up to discuss reparations, the Privy Council, the ridiculousness of having a foreigner as our head of state, and the vexed issue of my right to British citizenship...
I suppose you live and learn.Until September 20, I thought I knew a thing or five about Jamaica's dysfunctional political system and the grief and destruction it was currently wreaking on the economy and on the society. On September 20, I found out...
The only thing more alarming than some of the revelations made at the Tivoli commission of enquiry is how little comment they have elicited among the Jamaican chatocracy. I am firmly of the view that at whatever cost, the enquiry is important in...
When Britain captured Jamaica from Spain in 1655, the enslavement of black people brought from Africa that was practised under Spanish rule continued under British rule. Although slavery was not legal in 17th-century Britain, in Jamaica, a colony of...
Michael Abrahams, Patrick White, Ethon Lowe, and other Jamaican non-theists are not touching some of the biggest philosophical and theological problems for Christians.Abrahams has exercised himself a lot about the alleged atrocities attributed to...
So we're getting a prison. GREAT! Last Tuesday, I turned on my TV and saw Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller standing by a plane. She was waiting on British PM David Cameron to descend.Our prime minister is the descendant of slaves and speaks...
Last Wednesday, the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) launched the just-published autobiography of Walter Adolphe Roberts, These Many Years.There was a major traffic jam going down East Street where the NLJ, attached to the history-laden Institute...
In a modern, civilised society, a home is definitely the most basic comfort. When we retire at nights, we want to be secure, feel our family is safe and know our children live in a caring and relaxing environment. Our home is our castle, our own...
Remember when we got married in January, 1971, and Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou) danced at our wedding in a garden ceremony near New Castle? And Eddie Thomas, my best man, taught the Gordon Town mento band to play Here Comes The Bride as you...
The following is Part One of a two-part article. See Part Two next Sunday.Last Tuesday, at the University of the West Indies, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) launched its latest research piece critiquing the performance of Caribbean...
America is increasingly secularist, with the rise of the 'nones' - those who profess no religion - being a notable phenomenon, and its standard religious fare solidly Protestant. But you would never know that from how mesmerised that country has...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMOrville Taylor
None lesser than the great Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots," and if you have no self-confidence, you are twice defeated in the race of life.True...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Below are excerpts from an address to the Kiwanis Club of Linstead, St Catherine, on September 16.There is a sense of expectation in communities like Linstead, St Catherine, on the pending opening of the Kingston to Ocho Rios leg of highway 2000,...
Portia Simpson Miller is set to deliver today what almost certainly will be her pre-election conference speech, amid doubts about her management of her party's internal affairs and what seems like growing evidence of the Labourisation of her party....
Published:Friday | September 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMDeborah Fletcher
I write in response to an article published in The Sunday Gleaner dated September 13, 2015. The article speaks to issues relating to the increased competition in the private security market, which has forced some private security companies to keep...
Today we bury Marjorie Richards (Monica). It's been a long wait for her bereaved and distraught family.Monica, a higgler plying her trade, was murdered at Fish Ground near Coronation Market in the early morning of Wednesday, July 29. Three youths...
"It doesn't matter where you start, it's your destination that counts," said Timar Jackson, the 2014 Rhodes Scholar, to students of Vauxhall High School. Timar came from a poor background and was the child of a single mother. One of the inputs into...
Although I hold no brief for North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament Raymond Pryce, I fully back his private motion that non-governmental organisations (NGO) and lobbies must open to scrutiny their sources of funding. It is such a no-brainer...
Published:Thursday | September 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM
During the parliamentary debate more than a week ago on the new regulations under the Banking Services Act, I made the following points:1. The growth in the stock of commercial bank loans to the private sector slowed last year to 4%, down from 11.1...
