Jamaica will this week mark the start of the winter tourist season relatively optimistic about a decent performance.Ed Bartlett, the perennially upbeat tourism minister, projects that visitor arrivals over the three-month...
This week's thrilling finals of the annual (TVJ) Junior Schools' Challenge Quiz provided inspiration for many who watched the programme. The finalists from Mona Preparatory and Allman Town Primary displayed poise, competence, intelligence, and tenacity. And if we believe that education is strongly linked to economic empowerment, then these children hold great prospects for the future.
A visiting minister asked the Sunday school class, "Children, what weapon did Samson use to fight the Philistines?" None of the children could tell him.
The administration's proposal to move the army from its headquarters in Kingston to the plains of St Catherine, supposedly to free lands for the redevelopment of the capital, raises a number of questions that demand serious answers so as to facilitate...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Pusey stays - judge rejects DPP's request; refuses to end Kern trial'.Unfortunate headline...
We are in the middle of the religious season of Advent, when we reflect on the two 'comings' of Jesus - the one which has already happened and the one still to come.
We confess that the recent elections within the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the fluid alliances they seem to suggest have left us confused about the direction of the party and the ultimate strength of its leader, Prime Minister Bruce...
I had no idea that I lived somewhere other than my known place of abode until a friend called from Kingston recently and asked, "How is your constituency?" Up to then I was very comfortable with my address, but apparently people...
The decision of the director of public prosecution (DPP) to proceed with action against a senior resident magistrate after the Supreme Court dismissed the application is unfortunate.
AMONG THE high ideals espoused by Prime Minister Bruce Golding during his campaign for the premiership was the need to reform Jamaica's archaic libel laws.Public officials, he argued, should not be able to hide their misbehaviour behind defamation suits...
WITH ALL due respect to 2011, you're simply an opening act, a prelude, an appetiser, the undercard, a sideshow. You're the Cuban Light Bulb Scandal to Trafigura; Dual Citizenship to 'Dudusgate'; Asafa to Usain (wait, Asafa has Yendi); you're Usain...
ON NOVEMBER 24, the Los Angeles Times carried a report with the following headline: 'Gloomy Fed employment forecast overshadows upbeat GDP data: the Fed predicts unemployment will remain high for years'....
AS A journalist, I love to delve into unclassified information, but I don't particularly like to read other people's mail.I would not like anyone to peruse my personal information. Who among us would be comfortable with their most private utterances...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story, 'Sloppy servants - House committee blasts technocrats for cost overruns'.Fire corrupt officialsEvery day I hear this...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Franklin triumphs - vanquished Vaz vows to be a team player'.Vaz misread popularityVaz continues to misread the extent...
A good domino player must be able to lie convincingly. Often, domino players will put down a number with no backup intending to trick the opposition into believing that's where his strength lies (pun intended)...
There is not a Jamaican of goodwill anywhere who would not wish to see the incidence of prostate cancer reduced or eliminated or wish ill of anyone who undertook an enterprise with such a lofty...
In so far as we know, P.J. Patterson, the former prime minister, holds no formal office in the People's National Party (PNP) except, perhaps, his designation as a life member and, if it hasn't changed, as a trustee of the party with two other persons, one of whom is dead.
The international community must be prodded and cajoled into delivering the more than US$10 billion it pledged in long-term aid for the rebuilding of Haiti, which was devastated by earthquake and is now undergoing the stress of a cholera epidemic.
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Smoking debate - cigarette imports up as ganja production drops'.Tax them heavily!There is no fairness in Carreras...
Urban decay occurs when a city or part of it deteriorates into disrepair, or is deserted. It is a self-perpetuating, downward-spiralling phenomenon. Among other things, it causes and is also caused by, poverty, crime, owner evacuation ...
Jamaicans' vacillation about vital questions affecting our development is nowhere more evident than in how we have danced around critical decisions regarding adjustments to how we use energy.
