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Published:Thursday | October 23, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: I would like to add my thoughts to the discussion on legalising the use and production of marijuana for recreational purposes.

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There is a lot of banter about The Commission of Enquiry into the May 2010 West incursion, which is expected to commence in a couple weeks.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 11:15 PM

There is a lot of banter about The Commission of Enquiry into the May 2010 West incursion, which is expected to commence in a couple week

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 2:01 PM

THE EDITOR, Sir:

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 2:23 PM

I have always been mesmerised by Minister Louis Farrakhan, who I consider one of the greatest orators/debaters of our time, although I co

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 2:46 PM

There are many factors influencing the decision of Cabinet ministers who are failing badly in their posts to cling to their jobs like a p

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 2:49 PM

Why the NSWMA

continues to fail

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 3:20 PM

I am in sympathy with all vaginas in the world, irrespective of race and class and place of abode.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Jennifer Edwards should never have been given the job from the start. She is trained neither in waste management nor logistics, and had not, insofar as we are aware, distinguished herself in any area of management.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

There are many factors influencing the decision of Cabinet ministers who are failing badly in their posts to cling to their jobs like a pickpocket sprinting through a crowd clutching a fat wallet.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I am in sympathy with all vaginas in the world, irrespective of race and class and place of abode. Vaginas all over the world need to form a union in order to try to get some inoculation against diseases.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

I have always been mesmerised by Minister Louis Farrakhan, who I consider one of the greatest orators/debaters of our time, although I could never endorse his religion, which treats women as second-class citizens. But that's another matter.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: The Gleaner's recent editorial about the economic opportunities available to Jamaica in the BRICS countries was misleading, to say the least. These "booming" economies are not booming; they're stagnating.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Last week, as I was smugly heading to sleep in my epidemic-free zone, my front door was kicked down by a terrorist chicken armed with an AK-47.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: A few weeks ago, I was watching the state funeral for the Honourable Roger Clarke, on TVJ, and was most disconcerted to see the service interrupted by the station's broadcast of the midday Supreme Ventures lottery draw.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: I am one citizen who is getting peeved with the police in my area. Our police should not be so interested in the conflict resolution business.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: Allow me space in your paper to voice a pressing concern of national importance. It seems like it has now become customary for the leader of the opposition, Andrew Holness, to be absent from national events.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

These days everybody wants to be a journalist. Every little man with a cell phone and a Facebook account wants to be the one to tell the story first.

Published:Sunday | October 19, 2014 | 10:27 PM

Last week, as I was smugly heading to sleep in my epidemic-free zone, my front door was kicked down by a terrorist chicken armed with an

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2014 | 12:00 AM

We had urged Wavell Hinds to step down as head of the West Indies cricketers union not because we believed that he made a bad deal with the managers of the game in the Caribbean.

Published:Monday | October 20, 2014 | 2:21 PMPaget Defreitas

Published:Friday | October 17, 2014 | 1:53 PM

Targeting the Chinese

Published:Sunday | October 19, 2014 | 4:37 PM

This is not a critique of the Ministry of Health.

Published:Sunday | October 19, 2014 | 5:04 PM

Chikungunya is now ravaging Jamaica, shutting down court cases, crippling productivity and, in some regretful instances, taking lives fro

Published:Monday | October 20, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Something positive may yet be salvaged from that ghastly incident last week in St Catherine in which four men transporting the pay bill for workers building the North-South highway were ambushed and shot dead. It seems that, at last, the authorities are taking security on the site seriously.

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