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Published:Friday | January 4, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Through the 450 systems operated by the National Water Commission (NWC), on average, 180 million gallons of water are produced each day. It costs the NWC $120 per gallon to produce water, which is then sold at $220 per gallon.Only 30 per cent of the...

Published:Friday | January 4, 2019 | 12:00 AM

For more than 10 years, I have strived mightily in these columns to convince you that in this world, nothing is as it appears.My mission has been to show you, proclamations by political, social, religious, and business leaders require careful...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica is currently thrashing about in the throes of political excitement, shouting "Lock them up!" in a knee-jerk reaction to the auditor general's Petrojam report that's as short-sighted as it's wishful.The good news is that Jamaica already owns...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The world economy might be going to hell in a hand basket, but a favourable interpretation of Jamaica's economy could easily instill arrogance in some people. To these patriotic and observant Jamaicans, what is clear is that countries can't stand up...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The frenetic pace of the global news cycle with significant and disruptive important issues like Brexit, the rise of populism, privacy, immigration, the scope and impact of social media, fake news, and trade wars has resulted in the downing out of...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It's not just the Christmas break that is holding up that trumpeted meeting of the prime minister and the leader of the opposition over the parliamentary impasse on the continuation of the three states of emergency.Crime is too important an issue...

Published:Friday | December 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Even the most well-seasoned politician who has seen the underbelly of governmental corruption and knows of its, seemingly, systemic permanence will readily agree that corruption and failed state are partners in the same long waltz.I am not among...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

I refer to your editorial in The Gleaner of Monday, December 17, 2018, captioned 'Bulldozing ahead with Bernard Lodge city'. This article contained a number of misunderstandings and inaccuracies, which I am obliged to bring to the attention of your...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It might sound like an oxymoron, but Christmas is about true womanhood. Yet, it has turned into a big falsehood, characterised by reindeer, snow, mistletoe, sleigh, a fat man sliding down chimneys and all other things that are alien to the average...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Twenty years on, Alice (not her real name) still feels crushed by guilt and shame. Her sons still blame her for bringing a monster into the home as their stepfather. They refuse to forgive her for allowing a predator to remain in their home after...

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Like a recurring decimal, I am constantly asked why there are so few Jamaican movies and television shows being made. After the critical success of Perry Henzell's Harder They Come, most Jamaican-made movies have struggled to get past Port Royal to...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Dear Gerry,Wha 'appen, man! Long, long time! I was about to ask 'how you do?,' but the two recent articles in The Gleaner seem to suggest everyting criss! Ah glad fi yuh. And ah glad yuh decide to give us ah likkle piece of confession. Dem seh...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Precisely when John Blagrove came to Jamaica is unknown, although he was a 'regicide', a supporter of Oliver Cromwell who had designs on Spain's Caribbean and South America possessions.By 1689, he owned 700 acres in Hanover originally known as...

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

This year's Christmas message is a wish for peace on Earth, so there's no better place to start that effort than mediating, if possible, the gender war.Generally, we won't accept that we're all the same. Egged on by Church, we take life as a reality...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The buggery law may need to be declared unconstitutional, but not on the basis of the shoddy arguments advanced in the Gleaner editorial of November 29 ('Judicial courage and the buggery law').This editorial prompted some issues that demand clearer...

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

A Sunday column before Christmas has to be given free rein to capture the essence of Christmas: compassion, caring, carols, charity, and there is also family, togetherness, and excellence.You had to be there at the University Chapel, where a huge...

Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's homicide stats are horrifying. The planet's second most murderous country in 2017. Earth's highest violent death rate for women. Almost 10 times as murderous as the world average. A total of 20,642 murders in the 15 years 2004-2018, or 51...

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

I wonder if Dr Andrew Wheatley has got around before Christmas to making restitution payment for that US$1,000 birthday cake that Petrojam lavished on him?Although Easter is more the traditional time for token penitence and restitution, Christmas is...

Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

We are mostly Christian and definitely Westernised, so Christmas means the same to us as it does to many others globally. Some of us may want to share more love as the intangible magic of the season pulls us into its joyous fold, but we have to...

Published:Thursday | December 13, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Last week, the Jamaican political landscape shifted like a tectonic plate, producing a massive civic earthquake as one nine-day wonder was superimposed on another.Just as Jamaicans braced to deal with the Petroscam quake, the PNP's announcement that...

Published:Thursday | December 13, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Viewed mostly through the rational lens of political cynicism, the Opposition PNP has taken a gamble that its refusal to offer continued parliamentary support to enhanced security measures will make it more relevant to the voting public.In its still...

Published:Thursday | December 13, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In the week that the world marked International Human Rights Day (December 10), the parliamentary Opposition here took the bold step to vote against any further extension of the three states of emergency now running in St James, St Catherine North,...

Published:Thursday | December 13, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The two issues that dominated the public space over the past week have left many Jamaicans concerned and confused.The concern is about the rampant corruption that is being exposed, with more revelations indicating the extent of the corruption at...

Published:Thursday | December 13, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Whenever sloppiness and indiscipline occur, things careen so fast that they can slip over the edge if one is not careful. Evidence of this was on display following the recent report by the auditor general of corruption and waste at the state-owned...

Published:Friday | December 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's historical economic performance and current reality indicate that all other things considered, the only lever we have to drive significant and sustained increases in growth above the anaemic 1% to 2% that we have managed, at best, over the...

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