Jamaicans are still dissecting the life, fortunes and misfortunes of the 'President' of Tivoli Gardens.Our little country is making one person the archetype for corruption and crime.
Every time Bruce Golding opens his mouth on the Christopher Coke/Manatt, Phelps & Phillips scandal, he pushes his foot in deeper - to his personal discomfort, we suspect, and the embarrassment of the country, we are certain.
One night last week, I felt a little 'laziness' in my left leg which, initially, I thought was due to my sitting down for too long in a 'bad' position. I also felt a little light-headed. I immediately informed my daughters who looked up the symptoms of a stroke on the Internet. Of the five to six symptoms, I only had one and the 'laziness' only extended to my left leg.
Of the observations coming out of this newspaper's current series on Jamaica's agriculture, the most telling is what has been said about the obvious state of atrophy in the leadership and organisations that serve the sector. This has been a decisive factor in the sector's ongoing declining role in Jamaica's economy over many years...
A recent editorial in this newspaper made the valid point that too much was at stake for our Parliament, on our behalf, not to be fully at work and committed to the job of nation-building. Our future right now is on a knife's edge and we need the full capacity of Parliament working together to take us out of the political and socio-economic quagmire in which we find ourselves.
Our Jamaican home-grown tongue, patois, is indeed a bona fide language that is an active and vibrant medium of communication. It has its own structure and expresses subtleties, nuances and flavours peculiar to our culture that are not readily available in Standard English.
The madness of passengers wilting in unusually long immigration lines at the Sangster International Airport can do no good for Montego Bay's image as a tourist-friendly city.
Everyone in the town of Siparia in the deep south of Trinidad knew 'Rabby' or 'Rabbit', although only a few people knew that his real name was Ivan Marchand. Rabby was the undisputed leader of the little community of 'Cassava Alley', which was later renamed Peyton Place (by both its inhabitants and the rest of the town it scandalised) when the Grace Metalious...
AMONG THE most interesting, and no doubt welcome, bit of corporate news to have emerged in Jamaica recently would have been this week's announcement by Lascelles Chin that he is about to take his Lasco...
Life in this world is complicated, and it is a tricky business to figure it out and get it right. Take cause and effect cause must come before effect, but just because one thing happens before another does not mean that the first thing...
There is at least one belief that Jamaicans across the social spectrum share.This is that, if they wish to be good parents, their main function is to ensure that their children receive a good education.
The Jamaican government needs to clarify an element of the deal with Trinidad and Tobago's Caribbean Airlines for its takeover of Air Jamaica.At one stage, Jamaican officials, including Prime Minister Bruce Golding, had suggested that the Air Jamaica...
The Jamaica Independence Celebrations Committee of 1962 chaired by then Gleaner Editor Theodore Sealy rolled out a massive programme for the all-island celebrations to mark our transition to Independence.
The British government, it seems, is a bit like Fagin, the Dickens character in Oliver Twist, who maintained a gaggle of urchins, who were sent out to steal on his account.But the methods of Her Majesty's government are far less subtle than Fagin's crew.
Rev Al Miller is a man of God and a shepherd of souls. That is the purpose of his life. Furthermore, he wants Jamaica to be a people of God. I have known him for many years and have been involved in many common ...
Minister of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton in Parliament yesterday:I wish to turn my attention briefly to address the matter of the announced closure of the Long Pond Sugar Factory for the next crop year.
Jamaica spends around US$900 million a year importing food. Government researchers suggest perhaps a third of our imports could be replaced or substituted.
Maybe it is just that the event couldn't compete for Jamaica's attention with World Cup football in South Africa. But three weeks ago there was an event at the Alfred Sangster Auditorium at the University of Technology...
Below are edited comments posted by online readers to Monday's feature article on Harcourt Fuller, 'From poverty to PhD'. Wonderful story - This is such a wonderful story, only if the politicians and other influential Jamaicans could read...
The People's National Party (PNP) is once again exposed as driven by craven, classless, power hungry cowardice and seeking national office whilst ignoring its tactics' adverse effect on Jamaica. Norman Manley, the father...
Below are excerpts from comments posted by online readers reacting to the lead article in Sunday's Gleaner about nearly 100 children dying in state care over a three-year period.What criteria for state custody?..
We have not been shy in articulating our belief in agriculture's ability to make a substantial contribution to Jamaica's economy, and the country's broader development, despite the sector's poor performance in recent decades.That potential, however,...
During his recent CVM-TV interview, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin (retired commissioner of police and former chief of staff of the Jamaica Defence Force), suggested that person(s) leaked critical/sensitive information to Christopher Coke...
