In Focus

I read with interest the editorial in the Thursday, February 1, edition of your newspaper captioned 'Mike Henry off the rails'. At a glance, I was ready to dismiss it as the nattering nabobs of negativity at it again. But upon deeper thought, I...

It is most difficult to have a conversation in Jamaica for longer than 10 minutes without violent crime being a main part of the greater mosaic. The main focus is, naturally, on who will be that highly intelligent, but foolishly delusional, person...

Recent national events have brought to the forefront of my thoughts the imagery in Shakespeare's As You Like It that:"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time...

A fellow Twitterite posted the following on January 14:"I would like to know which law...speaks to who the Police Commish reports to...because like I said "nobody seems to know" and if the Commish reports or is accountable to no one we have a little...

When Astor Carlyle's sermon call to a moral revolution fades into silence (the nine days of wonder have passed) and the prayers are forgotten, it remains true that the state of the nation depends more on the moral rectitude of the leaders of the...

I grew up in the Pembroke Hall Valley in western St Mary, where banana was king and was known to be 'green gold'. It was the largest banana-producing belt in St Mary prior to the emergence of St Mary Banana Estate. Throughout the 1970s, and up to...

When on January 8 a Gleaner headline alerted us that there were already "38 murders for the first six days of 2018", one wanted to reflexively declare: Fake news! Except this was a Jamaica Gleaner headline and report of more than six murders per day...

We've prayed - again. It's time to rise from our knees and get some work done.Or more in line with current prayer practice to let go of each other's soft, gentle, clean hands. We'll need our fighting hand, right or left, free.There was a time when...

This is how the Office Of the Prime Minister's (OPM) website 'sold' the National Identification System (NIDS)."Why a NIDS?At present, Jamaica does not have a central national database with the accompanying systems to support secure, reliable...

Fifty years ago, 1968, the Ethiopians were belting out Everything Crash to the pulsating beat of rocksteady, which was then replacing ska as the sound of Jamaican popular music.Look deh now, everything crash ... .Firemen strike!Watermen strike!Down...

This is Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. But there is something about that Siths that hit the fans in the wrong place. What I liked about that movie was that it led to an unmasking of the infamous villainous character, Darth Vader, and we came to see...

Jamaica is now the darling of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The November 2017 visit of Madame Lagarde, managing director of the Fund, the second in two years, is a testament to the Fund's close and friendly relationship with the country....