There is not a national crisis in netball. Not yet at least, but anybody who listened to my call on sports programme on KLAS since Monday will agree there is a genuine cause for concern. Once again, it concerns Winston Nevers, the hugely popular ...
The justification one hears put forward for the lotto scam is that it is a form of reparation for slavery and other social sins being exacted by Jamaicans...
THE EDITOR, sir:WE REFER to your story on page A2 of the Sunday Gleaner dated April 7, 2013, which was penned by Senior News Editor Arthur Hall and appears with the headline: 'Secret deal: NHT paid $4b into gov't coffers last year'.
THE VIOLENT expression of our ignorance and prejudices must be a hallmark of Jamaican identity. Seemingly, this is, especially, to deprecate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. What compels Jamaicans to articulate disapproval ...
TWO YOUNG historians, Daive Dunkley and Dave Gosse, recently launched Agency of the Enslaved and Abolition and Plantation Management, respectively, at the Ardenne High School.Dr Dunkley's thesis is that "we need to shift from seeing resistance...
THE GOVERNMENT is beginning to get its critical economic pieces in their place. Last week, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips tabled an expenditure budget that, taking into the account the effects of inflation ...
Two months after her landslide victory at the polls, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced, "We came to power on the theme 'People Power' and we are serious about people power." (Gleaner, February 24, 2012)Why then am I now feeling so...
So the Carters created quite a stir in neighbouring Cuba last week. In case you haven't heard about it, entertainment's mega couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) were in Havana...
Never mind the sanitising pirouette by May Pen Mayor Scean Barnswell, there is still something rancid and vulgar about those shops at the Spaldings Market.Indeed, if Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is serious about accountable government...
The other day when the governor general was reading the Throne Speech aloud, there was another speech I was reading in my mind, pretending to be the governor general...
Whatever your view, good or bad, of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister (PM) who died on Monday, there is no gainsaying that she was a transformative figure whose influence transcended the United Kingdom (UK).Further, in our current...
Some months ago, an editorial by the Chicago Tribune (one of the top five newspapers in the United States) on Jamaica's debt crisis evoked a variety of responses from local commentators and leaders, spanning the political spectrum.The responses ranged...
Thanks to the police, our murder figures are down.But, the practice of killing innocent people, murdering obviously pregnant women, slaughtering babies, killing the frail, sick and elderly, mutilating and even beheading victims bears witness...
As much as we are inclined to commend the Government for the Budget it tabled in Parliament last week, we will reserve comment until the finance minister, Peter Phillips, presents the rest of his funding programme, including the allocations...
Once again, Pyongyang is rattling its sabres and threatening war.This is nothing new for a regime with a long history of throwing tantrums until it gets what it wants...
With regard to the recent statement made by former Prime Minister the Honourable P.J. Patterson about the lack of interest being shown by the youth and other individuals towards politics, this issue has been one of great concern ...
With our high rate of general crime and random acts of gun violence, being Jamaica's national security minister must be a very stressful job. So, this newspaper does not begrudge whoever occupies the portfolio the right to rest and recreation with friends, as was reported to be the case with Mr Peter Bunting, who has the task of tackling the crisis of national insecurity.
Every society can be identified by easily discernible culture, mores and norms. Jamaica is no different. However, an argument can be made that Jamaican culture, especially in the areas of most appeal to the young, has been undergoing a lightning-quick transformation.
Those are the infamous words of Sir Alexander Bustamante, national hero and first prime minister of independent Jamaica. Bustamante's turn of phrase comes straight out of the Wild West: "Wanted dead or alive." Bustamante apparently conceived all Rastafarians as outlaws in a Hollywood western who had to be exterminated by any means necessary.
Now, I speak as a political asylee living in America. I am the one who was scarred in my face because my hips had walked too widely at the age of 13. At the age of 16, my body quivered and I spoke in tongues, and months later I testified at a convention, "Lord, I will follow wherever You lead! Hallelujah!"
There is tumult ahead for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), still stemming from the phenomenal rapidity with which Bruce Golding self-destructed. He left the party in a tailspin and the valiant effort to paper over the cracks by immediately swearing fealty to another leader is still a work in progress.
