I'M NOT A doctor, nor did you ask for my opinion, but I have a diagnosis to make.I hope you're sitting down. I'm sorry to inform you that you have cancer.
WHAT IS it in the DNA of some individuals that cause them to reach beyond themselves and do spectacular things? Thoughts of ordinary people doing extraordinary things have been swirling in my head ever since watching CNN Heroes...
IT IS not often that someone like Delano Seiveright, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) youth arm, Generation 2000 (G2K), is likely to be cited with favour in these columns.He is too raw a politician, who has largely scuppered a once-fine...
In the wake of the midterm elections in the United States, hysterical hype abounds regarding an alleged message from the electorate to Obama to 'change course'.No such message can be gleaned from any rational analysis...
Whatever else may be taking place in the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), it is quite possible to interpret the contests for several and second-tier posts as part of a process of renewal.
We do not begrudge the police one bit for crowing over the decline in the number of reported crimes - particularly homicides, compared to the corresponding periods last year - since the overthrow of the Tivoli Gardens warlords in May, and the forced...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's Page 3 story 'JDF relocation dangerous', reporting on a speech by Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller.Portia is rightThis is the first time I...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's Page 1 and Page 2 lead stories 'Bruce hits back - Golding, Brady set to square off in court, and Battle-weary Paula fights...
Everyone is at risk for developing health problems at anytime. Consequently, the practice of medicine involves extensive risk management. For patients who find it difficult to grasp the concept of 'risk', I explain that low risk...
I always smile whenever I hear folk in Jamaica speak of the inherent discipline of the Chinese.In reality, China has historically been a riven and fissiparous land, its port cities once famous for their lawlessness.
Since Americans have, up to now, been impervious to the sensible arguments of countries like Jamaica, maybe they will be persuaded by what ought to be worrying data from within their own country. Since the start of 2000, up to the end of September this year, 511 police officers were shot dead in the United States (US).
Ireland, the miracle economy of the 1990s, is teetering on the brink of sovereign default as its banking system is being overtaken by a full-blown crisis that has international investors on the alert. As a result, the people of the 'Emerald Isle' are about to be hit by another round of pay cuts, layoffs, and other public-spending controls...
World AIDS Day 2010 will be observed this Wednesday, December 1, with the theme, 'Universal Access and Human Rights', prevention, treatment, and care are the watchwords. Despite the global attention to the pandemic, 2.6 million people became infected with the AIDS virus last year, and approximately 1.8 million died.
Standing out like a gangrenous thumb in the positive economic outlook that the Government tried to serve up during its annual conference last weekend was the stark fact that the economy has bled badly and continues to bleed from the woefully inept management of several government-owned-and-controlled commercial enterprises.
Issues involving transparency and accountability involving chiefly expenditure in the public sector continue to make the headlines almost on a daily basis. At the time of writing, the most recent one involves expenditure at the Bellevue Hospital.
CANON WEEVILLE GORDON, the clergyman and energetic public servant who passed on earlier this week, will be remembered as one who served his religious calling, not only by scriptural proclamation, but by deep involvement in the life of the community ...
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Dudus effect - Toronto police chief says Shower Posse has gone quiet since Coke's capture'.Fabricated analysis...
If you want to know the secrets of the universe, you have to use string theory. Incredibly, the same holds for Victoria's Secret. I am no theoretical physicist like Dr Michio Kaku, but I found out that it does not take an Einstein...
In my youth, it was unthinkable that apartheid in South Africa would ever come to an end, or that Nelson Mandela - in prison since the day before Jamaica gained political independence - would ever be released.
It seems odd that having taken a year to negotiate a contract that he said wouldn't have the flaws of the previous incumbent, Finance Minister Audley Shaw couldn't this week give the full salary of the present central bank governor, Mr Brian Wynter....
Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Talk up - Vaz claims PNP side-stepping Trafigura affair'.Wrong placeSo now we trade scandals.
We have not arrived at a definitive position on the matter, but confess, like Opposition Leader, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller, to having deep unease over the Government's intention to move the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) from Up Park to...
During his fleeting visit to Jamaica last week, Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, repeated a suggestion that he made shortly after inauguration in the summer.
