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Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:09 AM

The agriculture sector plays a pivotal role in economic activity in Jamaica as it employs thousands of individuals and forms a major pillar of the island’s economy although some of the industry’s challenges include low productivity, lack of...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:08 AM

This week’s Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and the Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the West Indies, presents a summary of a Lecture “Reparation and Diversity: Building an Inclusive...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:08 AM

Jamaica has always been the paradise that promises to make the next step into Heaven. But it has never successfully outdistanced itself from its dark side. I once sat with a small group of elders who grew up in West Kingston at one of its worst...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:08 AM

On October 14, I was among those who welcomed Edmund Bartlett convening the long-overdue meeting of Jamaica’s Parliament’s Integrity Commission Oversight Committee. This meeting began review of the work of the Integrity Commission, and in so doing...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:08 AM

I suspect I’ve lost 95 per cent of female readers over the past two weeks during the first two of my gender-relations trilogy. In Part I, I blew the lid off chauvinists’ cookie jar containing a fetid, flaccid fantasy called “what men want in a...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:06 AM

Jamaicans across the board welcome development on the built environment. However, development should be non-partisan, belonging to political leaders on both sides of the Houses of Parliament, owned by government workers at both central and local...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:06 AM

This is the third in a series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. The world’s buildings require huge amounts of energy to construct and...

Published:Sunday | November 7, 2021 | 12:05 AM

South African cricketer Quinton de Kock’s politically inept decision not to “take the knee” as an anti-racism gesture during the Men’s T20 World Cup game against the West Indies forces us to recall a golden age of West Indian dominance of the sport...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:09 AM

The first part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP15, was successfully held in Kunming, China, in mid-October 2021. The meeting adopted the Kunming Declaration and called upon...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:09 AM

In the months leading up to COP26, the terms accessibility and financing have become mantras that from a Caribbean perspective, threaten to fall on deaf ears. World leaders have been calling for a faster shift towards sustainable development, yet...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:09 AM

Never before had the nation witnessed a somewhat live tragedy played out so publicly. In Albion, St James. Pastor Kevin Smith and his embellishments - bishop, excellency, doctor - tried to live out his psychopathy in one final burst of egomaniacal...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:09 AM

This is the second in a series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. The first article in this series looked at some of the devastating impacts...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:08 AM

Ten months after the first vaccine for COVID-19 was authorised for use by the WHO, most people in the Americas remain at risk. We must face the daunting reality that the overreliance on imported health products – including lifesaving COVID-19...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:07 AM

A good friend of mine, now married, doesn’t wear a wedding ring. She didn’t get one and didn’t want one. She doesn’t think she should wear a wedding ring because she is repulsed by the pagan origins of wedding rings. You could ask me to what...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:07 AM

The recent bloodletting at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries (PIKRM) sent shock waves throughout Jamaica. People are jostling on WhatsApp and YouTube to retrieve records of the church members who were terrorised by their...

Published:Sunday | October 31, 2021 | 12:06 AM

Last week, I tried to tell home truths to men who foolishly believe that they are in charge of a male/female relationship system called “The Patriarchy”. There’s no such thing. It’s an illusion created by women so they can embarrass men into...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:09 AM

It’s time to tell some home truths to men who believe in the illusion known as the Patriarchy. I’ve been moved to speak these truths by an “opinion” column appearing in The Gleaner on Monday, October 18, headlined (not the author’s fault) What Men...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:08 AM

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do; going all the way back to Abraham...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:08 AM

Jamaican American four-star General Colin Powell, who died of complications relating to COVID-19 on October 18 at the age of 84, was one of America’s most well-known public figures, with four decades of service in which he broke down racial...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:07 AM

It is nothing short of shocking to learn that, despite the fact that the world is teetering dangerously on the precipice of a climate catastrophe with fatal consequences for small island states, some rich nations are lobbying against paying to help...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:07 AM

During the 1760 revolt of Tacky, the obeahman was an integral part of the fight for liberation. The spiritual leaders of the rebels would anoint them and use spells to protect them from death. Proclamations, such as an obeahman and his anointed...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:06 AM

In this edition of Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Centre for Reparation Research (CRR), we highlight the reparation agenda laid out by the widow of Walter...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:06 AM

How thin is the line between diabolical wickedness and insanity? When I heard the news that the leader of a cult in St James was arrested after two members of his assembly were killed as human sacrifices, I was reminded that this is one of the many...

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2021 | 12:06 AM

This is the first in the series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. The period to 2050 will be a time of exceptional turbulence. The world is...

Published:Saturday | October 16, 2021 | 12:10 AMPatrick Roberts - and Kemba Peters - Guest Columnists

Breast cancer is a significant public health concern in Jamaica. It is the most common cancer affecting women. It represents a substantial threat to healthcare resources and, most important, patients’ quality of life and, ultimately, survival....

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