The title of Michael Manley's book, Up the Down Escalator, aptly describes the dilemma we currently encounter as we attempt to give back to our people in Jamaica.
We are encouraged that after many false starts and over-optimistic pronouncements by various government agencies, the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) appears to be close to offloading several bits of property in downtown Kingston and its environs....
My article last week about West Indies cricket must have touched a chord, because not too long after it came out, I got several calls from people within the halls of power in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) that I should sit and meet...
There is a well-established movement of Christians in America who feel they are fighting a losing battle in their home country where rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are concerned.
THE SHAME of this latest in Everald Warmington's legion of flaky outbursts is that political delirium short-circuited a potentially serious discussion.For this newspaper believes that the matter of compulsory voting, the germ of which was touched by Mr...
THE EDITOR, Sir:Open letter to our Director GeneralDear Mr Gordon, on October 4, 2013 the Office of Utilities Regula-tion (OUR) issued a statement under the heading 'OUR moves to next ranked bidder to provide base-load capacity to national grid'.
THE EDITOR, Sir:When citizens become engaged in discussions regarding the future of their country, especially dealing with such matters as violent crime, it must be a healthy sign, and one that should be encouraged in a democracy such as ours.For...
Peter Bunting, the national security minister, has been proselytising recently about his new approach to Jamaica's epidemic of crime, which, unabashedly, includes calls for divine intervention.Given the double-digit percentage hike in homicides last...
Notwithstanding the occasional detractors who (reasonably or not) criticise the work of the offices of the auditor general and contractor general, these agencies have demonstrated vigilance and competence in unearthing various forms of corruption over the years.
Politicians will shortly pat each other on the back for finally passing the anti-gang law. They will yet again convince themselves that harsh laws scare criminals, even though crime data suggest otherwise....
Richard Byles, one of corporate Jamaica's finest minds and co-chair of a committee that monitors the government implementation of its agreement with the International Monetary Fund, is neither an apologist for the Simpson Miller administration...
The first of the '10 things you didn't know about Tony Hart' listed in the Outlook (Sunday Gleaner, December 29, 2013) certainly stumped me and, perhaps, scores of other readers to learn that Tony was Munro College's goalkeeper "in the 1949 daCosta Cup...
Having read The Gleaner's editorial published Saturday, January 11, 2014 titled 'Where are the big crime-fighting ideas?', as a Christian, with a long history of involvement in public health issues, I feel compelled to make the following points.
There is an agreement in principle for the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), or some special-purpose vehicle representing it, to acquire a stake in the 360-megawatt power plant that the firm Energy World International (EWI) has the right to develop...
Serious crimes were down, but murders were up by nine per cent last year.In recent times, our best respite from criminality, and especially murder (which is primarily gang related), came in 2010 during the shameful and violent Christopher 'Dudus' Coke ...
We are happy that the Government has, at last, appointed someone to oversee what it is now being called the transformation and modernisation of the public sector.The process is way behind schedule, so Veniece Pottinger-Scott has no time to waste in...
Habakkuk 2: 2 ‹ 3 says, "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time." Without a doubt, CARICOM is going to be under the microscope....
Let me begin with the pretty superstar D'Angel's recent wardrobe malfunction at a performance in Temple Hall, St Andrew. Essentially, it was a panty derailment and it's all over the Internet.
