WITH THE coming of Jamaica Carnival, we will, once again, have a renewal of the debate concerning the music that is played to accompany the masqueraders and for the revellers at the carnival parties.It is an undeniable fact that most of the lyrical...
IT IS unfathomable that the governors of the education system and educators are, seemingly, so misinformed about the purpose of quality education and what it entails...
THERE HAS been a recent report that Robert Rainford, then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Justice, who acted as surety for the accused Carlos Hill, owner of Cash Plus, was being investigated by the Services Commission.
Since publication of my earlier contribution towards the end of January, we have had two responses from our learned colleagues of the University of the West Indies.
The United States-South Korean military exercises will continue until the end of this month, and the North Korean threats to do something terrible if they do not stop growing more hysterical by the day.
We don't know what prompted Albert Gordon, president of the National Water Commission (NWC), to issue the statement, except to advance the case for the privatisation of the loss-making, state-owned water and sewerage company.Mr Gordon told Jamaicans...
Recently, I overheard someone saying a well-known politician was ill and had been hospitalised. I was unable to check this independently and have seen no media reports to this effect, so I will refrain from calling any names in this article...
Peter Bunting just doesn't get it. He might not have felt threatened by whatever it is that happened at that Portland villa, but the rest of us in Jamaica are damned frightened. Perhaps he should ask Donnette Archer...
My routine sumptuous consumption of Sunday reading of The Gleaner was again enhanced by my brethren Orville Taylor's usual perspicacious penmanship, exhibiting his usual balance of intellectual depth with common-sense pragmatism....
The principle of sacrifice is embedded in every (ancient and modern) religion.The various 'religious sacrifices' have evolved from human sacrifice to animal sacrifice to self-sacrifice - sacrificing money or other possessions...
After 12 days, Cyprus' banks reopened last Thursday with strict controls limiting how much of their cash people could withdraw or transfer abroad.The sun-washed Mediterranean island is the latest country caught in the rolling wave of the European crisis.
Julian Hunte, the unseated president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), has been unfortunately quiet since his defeated bid for another two-year term last week.There was no immediate and public congratulation to his former deputy and successor...
This is Part Two of a presentation at a Stocks & Securities leadership and economic growth forum titled 'How to Win in a Tough Climate', on Thursday, March 14.
External muscle may have helped to push things along, but we nonetheless congratulate the Government for the speed with which it was able to push through legislation to tackle the lottery scam that targets mostly Americans.
This newspaper will adopt a wait-and-see attitude towards recent police operations in St James aimed at shutting down the criminals behind the pervasive lottery scam that has flourished in western Jamaica since 2007. The most recent operations have resulted in the arrest of two supposedly 'prominent' citizens of the Second City whose identities have not yet been released.
Jaevion Nelson describes himself at the bottom of his column as a "youth development, HIV and human rights advocate". I wish he would advocate that people avoid actions that would lead to AIDS.
In the middle of the battle raging in the United States between the right to bear arms and the left to fear arms came this joke:A redneck walked into a gun shop, and asked for the largest gun in stock.
Jamaica's sub-par performance against Costa Rica a few nights ago is still hurting football fans in the island. The Wednesday after the game, callers to my sports call-in programme on KLAS FM radio spoke about nothing else.
This article is in response to the letter in People's Report titled 'Pepper farmers lament low prices from processors', published on Saturday, March 23, 2013.
