In Focus

I think I may have received my first Heavens-to-Murgatroyd threat!Does this mean I'm a real journalist at last? Probably not. Guess who was the sender? No, not a politician. Generally, politicians understand criticism comes with the territory. No,...

We've grown in numbers. Gone are the days of the classes of 20 or 30. Even gone are the days of the classes of 100+. Currently, the class of 2015 of the Norman Manley Law School (NMLS) is 270 strong. Similarly sized is the class of 2016. We've been...

A week to go before Emancipendence, I am dusting off my gold and green on one of the few occasions that I compromise on my Negrophilia. Doubtless, I am very ecstatic over the semi-final victory over the USA in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.It's not because...

Patrick Anglin's contribution to education debates in the region, as captured in the review article in The Gleaner of July 13, 2015 and titled 'Use open online courses to increase access to tertiary education', which reviewed Anglin's article to the...

I have always maintained that Jamaica has been too ambivalent about crime. On the one hand, we are incensed and outraged when there is an alarming increase in crime and we shout in panic for the Government to 'do something'. But when tough action or...

'When you fly at the level of eagles, you have no time for the John Crows who fly below.' The problem with that statement is that it is fraught with a major misconception. Vultures fly much higher than eagles and are the world's highest-flying birds...

Lack of water for domestic and irrigation use is one of the most serious environmental hazards. Globally, one billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation, says Abundance, written by Peter Diamendic and...

Recently, I had a very intense conversation with a male friend of mine who argued that a woman who goes over to a man's house at certain hours of the night should know exactly what she has opened herself up to. Usually, I would remove myself from...

Reading the columns published in The Gleaner criticising the US Supreme Court's gay-marriage decision, one is left with the impression that the opinions of the four dissenting justices were more legally grounded than the majority opinion shared by...

Recently, I saw a post on Facebook that read, "If Digicel ah monkey and LIME ah black dog, what is Flow?"My company just applied to LIME (now Flow) for a telephone line with Internet service (ADSL) in Ewarton. Apart from it taking a rather long time...