In Focus

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...