The English language is the world's most endangered species. For example, in America, it hasn't been used for centuries. Due to some of its eccentricities (e.g. the bough of a tree is pronounced 'bow' but the trough from which most animals feed...
Last weekend, Michell A. Rhee, the chancellor for schools in Washington, DC, in the United States, announced that next month, she will fire 226 of the district's 4,000 teachers, and that over the next year or so, "a not insignificant number" is likely to meet a similar fate.
Change the law - The call by attorney-at-law, Tamika Harris ( Sunday Gleaner, July 25) for changes in the law that makes criminals of 16-year-old boys who have consensual sex...
I am now satisfied that if this government buys a pound of liver, half of it will turn out to be bone. The Opposition, ably assisted by its friends in the public sector and the media, seems determined to prevent it from...
It is not often that I find myself cheering on a politician. However, in a recently publicised speech, Audley Shaw, the minister of finance and the public service, bemoaned the wide banking 'spread'...
Last week, I reminded readers how dramatically our agricultural sector has slipped since the 1950s and early 1960s because we failed to reform and modernise production and the institutional structures in the sector
Bruce, mi son, a no everybody mek fi be prime minister. Trust mi. Mi know yu naa go waan hear dat. But God a God. An mi ha fi talk truth. Yu see di prime minister work? It no easy. No, no, no. A whole heap a problem. Yu ha fi have strong back fi dat deh work. Nuff Irish mash.
Monday morning quarter-backing (a.k.a. couch captaincy) is a contagious disease against which Jamaicans haven't been vaccinated. It is a practice, inherently without substance, that can expose more of the practitioner's insecurities than the subject's failings.
The party of Norman Manley is no more. The People's National Party (PNP) is now officially the party of the lumpen. They did not even have the guts to come out and vote against a state of emergency to which they were clearly opposed. Instead they 'abstained.'
Two bits of recent news in the real economy will no doubt have pleased the Golding administration. Last Thursday, Oleg Deripaska's UC Rusal removed the shutters from its 650,000 tonne alumina refinery at Ewarton in St Catherine and has started firing up its kilns. The plant was mothballed for more than a year.
There are many people who remain aloof and commonly react by shrugging at the spectacle of placard-bearing people demonstrating or protesting about poor roads, lack of water, and other vital services in communities.
Continuous vigilance - It is a burning shame that the Jamaican legislators failed to arrive at a consensus to extend the state of emergency in that troubled island.
The Americans had their 9-11 event, which spurred them to create the Department of Homeland Security, and to pass anti-terrorism legislation which affects us as we visit the USA.
There is that adage about children playing with matches: if allowed, they might just burn the house down, or cause serious damage to themselves and others.That's the vision left by Jamaica's political leaders with their...
The security forces need to be commended for the work done and the success achieved that led to the reduction in major crimes such as rape, shooting and murder in the month of June when compared with last year.
At the end of this month, and going into the first two days of August, the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will host its annual agricultural show at Denbigh, Clarendon. We wonder whether they should bother.
Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret opened the first Independence Parliament on Tuesday, August 7, in the midst of a hectic five days of activities following her arrival on August 3.
There are many nasty strikes on the political career of Desi Bouterse, who was this week chosen by the parliament of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) member state of Suriname to be that country's new president.
The news coming out of Miami-Dade County in Florida is that crime has declined by 50 per cent after a curfew law was imposed in May, aimed at keeping youngsters off the streets of crime- infested neighbourhoods like Overtown...
Whenever Ernest H. Flower was at the domino game, you knew that a tall tale wasn't far away.
And so it was that night, as he grew bored kibitzing Gene Autry and me versus Dessie and The Beast...
Among Christopher Tufton's observations during his recent parliamentary review of the agricultural sector was the fact that these days, almost no Jamaican students graduate from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of the West Indies (UWI)...
We note last week's extension by the Defence Board, until August 18, of the call-out of the Jamaica Defence Force's (JDF) reserve to allow their continued help in security operations under the state of emergency.
Below are excerpts from online readers to articles in the Sunday Gleaner:Re: 'Gangster hunt - west Kingston thugs held in Manchester'Reward money. The private sector should put up reward money for information leading to the capture...
