THE GLEANER'S Letter of the Day, published on Friday, April 26, 2013, by Mr Michael A.Dingwall, has given some small indication that the public-service announcements being kindly aired by some media houses are drawing some attention to the call for quotas.
The divestment of lossmaking government companies is, as this newspaper understands it, a critical component of Jamaica's US$958-million economic support agreement with the International Monetary Fund....
When Shadow Finance Minister Audley Shaw last week reprised the phrase 'bang belly' - previously employed in the 1980s to describe the structure of Jamaica's economy being presided over by Edward Seaga...
Keith Anthony 'Tony' Laing was one of the founding members of the Friends of Liberty Hall in the late 1990s. He was a repository of many tales he had heard about the once-vibrant Liberty Hall from the 1920s to the 1940s when Liberty Hall...
They snooze, you lose!Over the last few weeks, letter writers to The Gleaner's Opinion & Commentary section have said they've had enough with residents and business persons 'bucking' radios and sound systems at parties and other functions.
My beloved horse-racing industry is in shambles and, at time of writing, nobody knows if it'll continue after May 1 when drastic purse cuts are expected to kick in.As usual, occupational permit holders, led by the always-militant Jamaica Race Horse...
Like many people, I was glued to the television set recently watching news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, and the subsequent manhunt for the brothers suspected of committing the heinous act. It was a shocking episode for many reasons...
Every believer's ethical duty and diligence in the marketplace is to perform as though serving Christ even as their counterparts/co-workers may not be Christian.Many times, Christians are the most difficult people to work within...
Education is supposed to prepare us for the real world - for our chosen occupation and for life in general. Sometimes we are taught subjects that only set a base for us to build on. Sometimes we are taught stuff that makes us intellectually rounded...
We hope the House will quickly take up, and approve, the bill that was recently passed by the Senate to eliminate preliminary inquiries before magistrates ahead of certain types of cases, including murders, being tried in the Supreme Court....
Three years ago, a paper by two famous economists at US ivy-league universities appeared to provide a scientific basis for the austerity gospel (which I recently criticized in this column)...
The minister never told us how he would achieve what he described as the ultimate objective of his reform agenda: "to reverse the long-term trend of low growth and declining productivity which has come to characterise the Jamaican economy".
They spent far too much time on disingenuous claims about the policy options available to the Government, as well the causes for the current perils faced by Jamaica's economy.
National Hero Alexander Bustamante must be turning in his grave as this shredded stub of the Jamaican flag was seen on a flag pole of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union headquarters on Duke Street, Kingston.
A police superintendent has this week confirmed what was often rumoured about girls who have been reported missing from inner-city communities. According to Deputy Superintendent Steven Moodie, some teenage girls living in such neighbourhoods are sent away by their mothers to the country, or to relatives elsewhere, to get them out of harm's way. These girls are then reported missing.
I guess I should be accustomed by now to the various means the Government uses to extract money from us, but I was totally taken aback by the blatant fraud being committed by the Half-Way Tree Post Office.
THE EDITOR, Sir:As I sat in Gordon House on April 23 and 25 and listened to our politicians hurl insults at each other, I couldn't help but think about some of my unruly students who I encounter every day.
"So what exactly is the point at tissue?" I asked my friend who had called to draw my attention to a toilet paper war supposedly raging between Jamaica and Trinidad. He expected my response and said it is no laughing matter, as, like the Myrie and cement incidents, it is likely to reach the Caribbean Court of Justice where the judges may have to sit on the matter.
