Britain will this week bury Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister who transformed her country, for better or worse.Opinion polarises about the woman the Soviet press famously dubbed the 'Iron Lady'...
A while back, my wife and I went on an excursion in Grand Cayman.We saw a curious sign, handwritten on a plastic container with a few United States dollar bills in the bottom of it...
So there hasn't been much good news recently where the economy is concerned. Watching the slide of the Jamaican dollar alone could leave you nauseated. And worrying over just how much this will continue to affect prices in the weeks and months ...
Undoubtedly, when a nation fails to seek God for its direction and guidance, then that nation is going to find itself in a constant state of severe oppression....
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has rejected as "false" recent speculation, including by this newspaper, that a shuffle of her Cabinet is imminent.
Vybz Kartel's arresting book, The Voice of the Jamaican Ghetto, co-authored with Michael Dawson of People's Telecom fame, gives a penetrating account of the deadly conditions endured by too many youth who are barely surviving on the margins of Jamaican...
The plan announced by Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, requiring motorists to get clearance from the Traffic Division headquarters before renewing a driver's licence or car registration, seems to me a very bad idea.
This newspaper is urging Justice Minister Mark Golding not to allow too much procrastination over whether or not the ministry should shun expensive rental premises in New Kingston and move into government-owned property in Half-Way Tree.
Being a master procrastinator myself, I know a problem when I see it. It's probably a culture thing, but it's something that really needs to be addressed - Procrastination.
The cinema in my home village was big on westerns, Tarzan and comedies - especially the slapstick comedy of the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Abbot and Costello, and the Three Stooges. Now slapstick has entered the realm of politics in Trinidad, and from comedy it has degenerated into farce or what Trinis call 'too dam farce'.
As a firm believer in the Bible and a practising Christian, I truly believe that in the sight of God all men are equal, and it would be an atrocity for me to even think or suggest otherwise.
Following Hugo Chavez's March 5 cancer death and nearly a month of public mourning, a new constitutionally mandated election is being held tomorrow in Venezuela.
It is urgent that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) engage the global community for help in sending a clear message to Guatemala that there will be no reward for bad behaviour, including, as seems to be the intent of the Central American country,...
NIR plunge continues - According to the monthly report released on April 5 by the Bank of Jamaica, the net international reserves (NIR) in March 2013 stood at US$884.25m, representing a decrease of 5.9 per cent from the US$939.53m recorded in February 2013.
There is not a national crisis in netball. Not yet at least, but anybody who listened to my call on sports programme on KLAS since Monday will agree there is a genuine cause for concern. Once again, it concerns Winston Nevers, the hugely popular ...
The justification one hears put forward for the lotto scam is that it is a form of reparation for slavery and other social sins being exacted by Jamaicans...
THE EDITOR, sir:WE REFER to your story on page A2 of the Sunday Gleaner dated April 7, 2013, which was penned by Senior News Editor Arthur Hall and appears with the headline: 'Secret deal: NHT paid $4b into gov't coffers last year'.
THE VIOLENT expression of our ignorance and prejudices must be a hallmark of Jamaican identity. Seemingly, this is, especially, to deprecate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. What compels Jamaicans to articulate disapproval ...
TWO YOUNG historians, Daive Dunkley and Dave Gosse, recently launched Agency of the Enslaved and Abolition and Plantation Management, respectively, at the Ardenne High School.Dr Dunkley's thesis is that "we need to shift from seeing resistance...
THE GOVERNMENT is beginning to get its critical economic pieces in their place. Last week, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips tabled an expenditure budget that, taking into the account the effects of inflation ...
Two months after her landslide victory at the polls, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced, "We came to power on the theme 'People Power' and we are serious about people power." (Gleaner, February 24, 2012)Why then am I now feeling so...
So the Carters created quite a stir in neighbouring Cuba last week. In case you haven't heard about it, entertainment's mega couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) were in Havana...
