Yesterday in Brussels, Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union's (EU) commissioner for home affairs, issued the EU's first report on the 27-member community.
There is one question everybody should be asking tomorrow at the United Nations in Geneva, as a panel of experts reviews the Dominican Republic's human rights record: Why are they stripping hundreds of thousands of people of their nationality?...
When I read the piece by Orville Higgins, 'Anti-sports bias', in The Gleaner (31/1/14), the proverb, "Enough is as good as a feast," i.e., just the right amount is as good as more than enough - 'there is no value in excess'...
Some of the naïve nonsense written in support of the police survey used to condemn some schools as producing criminals makes me despair for debate in Jamaica.On Sunday, January 26, the Gleaner editorial and resident government apologist, Booklist Boyne,...
February is Reggae Month, when we celebrate a musical genre we gave to the world. Over the years, reggae artistes have hit number one on the charts in many countries, a category was created for the genre at the Grammy Awards, and reggae songs have appeared on the soundtracks of several major motion pictures.
When Dave Cameron heave-hoed his former mentor Julian Hunte out of the presidency of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), we had hoped that he would not only inspire a turnaround in the quality of the regional team, but restore the dignity of, and...
I have always appreciated the need for the preservation of our natural environment and I strongly support the work of our organisations working to make sure that our natural resources are not squandered...
I read with interest the Sunday Gleaner story 'Big butts equal big brains - Study finds that larger buttocks make for healthier, smarter women', published January 26, 2014.I had often wondered about my own progress in life but...
Ezekiel 34: 29 says: And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen anymore.Without a doubt, God created plants, herbs and...
I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Jamaica Stock Exchange's 2014 Capital Markets Conference in Kingston on investment opportunities from legalising ganja.
I wish to congratulate your editorial board in respect of the views expressed in two recent editorials in your newspaper and to associate myself with some of the sentiments and positions stated in those editorials.
Luther Buchanan, who has the title of a minister of state and has a desk at the Office of the Prime Minister, has, we have been told, been given the task of overseeing the improvement of health centres in rural Jamaica.
Crime and violence continues to be of great concern to us as citizens of our nation. Many citizens, groups and both the prime minister and the opposition leader have mentioned it as a priority matter to be tackled in 2014.
The membership of the Greater Portmore Joint Council is very alarmed that after the untidy constituency boundary changes which created a dilemma for a vast swathe of Portmore residents, there are recommendations to solve the situation whereby the municipality would be left without a directly elected mayor.
Once it was believed that the community-policing approach would build partnerships with members of troubled areas of the country in a huge crime-solving, crime-reduction effort.
I seriously disagree with the minister of education, Ronald Thwaites, on the direction he is going with regard to the transfer of students with special sports skills.The minister, no doubt, means well, and is clearly operating on the premise that high...
The announcement that Sagicor Group Jamaica will acquire the Jamaica operations of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is another example of Sagicor CEO Richard Byles putting his - or investors' - money where his mouth is.For Mr Byles has been busy recently...
This is an open letter to Albert Gordon, the director general of the Office of Utilities Regulation.In your response to my letter dated January 13, 2014, you confirmed that "the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has received information pertaining ...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Research, Planning and Legal Services Branch should be commended for producing the March 2012 study, 'Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates in Jamaica'.
