One of the most famous commercials of all time was the creation of a Chicago advertising scriptwriter who, in 1959, came up with the famous Esso (now Exxon) slogan, "Put a tiger in your tank'.
It was entirely appropriate, we feel, that Prime Minister Bruce Golding travelled to Haiti yesterday for a first-hand view of the devastation wreaked by Tuesday's earthquake in that country, and to offer Jamaica's assistance and support in the recovery...
Reap taxes from 'bad wud' - I visited a car parts shop this week to purchase brake light bulbs and, as a result of the 'colourful' language I was subjected to in the waiting area, I was struck by a brilliant idea: The solution to Jamaica's debt...
Minister of Education Andrew Holness is rightly upset at the low pass rate of Jamaican students in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination. Wednesday's Gleaner reported: "He said the 2009 CSEC statistics in English ...
To: Iris Robinson, MP; Belfast, Northern Ireland. Dear Mrs Robinson: Let me begin by congratulating you on your charm, not to mention your stamina. It's not very often that a 60-year-old manages to bag a teenage toy boy....
My family looks forward to watching Basil Dawkins' plays and this current play For Better Or Worse is no exception. We travelled to Little Little Theatre and we were not disappointed with this cracker of a play which my mother found entertaining ...
This morning at the Bank of Jamaica, the governor, Brian Wynter; Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his finance minister, Audley Shaw, will outline the dirty-fingernail bits of the Government's debt-rescheduling programme, whose broad parameters...
Many will insist, not without logic, that the debt-restructuring programme Prime Minister Bruce Golding will formally unveil to Jamaicans tonight is effectively a default. That as it may be, what the Government is engaged in is a practical expedience...
THE JAMAICA Productivity Centre (JPC) launched its inaugural annual Productivity Summary Report in November last year. The report covers the period 1972-2007. Subsequent reports will cover the most recent five-year periods....
IT'S TIME to critically analyse foreign debt. Somebody must, since our leaders haven't the vision to see what's happening right in their faces. First, some basics. In 2007, our gross domestic product (GDP) was US$12.9 billion...
Prime Minister Golding, we have been told, warned his ministers, during their weekend retreat, that there would be no room for error in implementing the programme that the administration hopes will lead to economic recovery...
Comparing deaths stats - I would like to comment on the January 11 letter 'The war in Jamaica', in which A. G. Gumbs wrote a thought-provoking piece, comparing the combined loss ...
The December 26, 2009 edition of The Gleaner reported that the police were planning to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to drivers and passengers who don't use seat belts and motorcyclists who don't wear helmets.
Plaudits to Tony Rebel - I applaud reggae artiste Tony Rebel for his continued unapologetic stance in support of positive and clean Jamaican music, despite his seemingly being in the minority of an industry filled with many lyrically...
One of the curious happenings in last week's announcement by the police of the crime statistics for 2009 was the seeming priming of the event with an earlier press conference to give data on police operations during the year, as though the constabulary...
News that the largest local banks have made record profits during the past year, when our economy has suffered the deepest decline since the mid-1980s and as most Jamaicans had to tighten their belts, has not won them many...
For some time now, a virtual consensus has emerged about what ails our economy and the endgame requirements for achieving sustainable growth of at least five per cent per year. The key endgame factors are...
Orville Burrell, or Shaggy, as he is better known, has been able to maintain a universal fan base without sacrificing the iconoclasm and irreverence of the Jamaican dancehall.Indeed, Shaggy understands that it is too easy to attempt...
Citizens of all countries have a right to expect that their government will tell them the truth at all times. If things are bad, it is even more important that the citizens be made aware, so they may rally behind the country's leaders.
On New Year's Eve I got a very hostile email in response to "Seaga put goat mouth on Bruce" (December 27). As it turns out, it wasn't just this column that had enraged the male writer. "University fi stone dog"...
Taking responsibility for the failure of others is perhaps one of the hardest things to do. In fact, one of the safest refuges of weak leaders is to blame subordinates for failures.
If West Indian author C.L.R. James were alive today he would certainly be tempted to go 'Beyond A Boundary' and write 'Beyoncé A Boundary', given the hullabaloo, hype and histrionics over the staging of a performance by Beyoncé Knowles in Trinidad on February 18, 2010. - Tony Deyal
Dr Omar Davies, when he was finance minister, had a penchant, as we have noted before, for lecturing the Opposition on the need for responsibility when making statements about the Jamaican financial market and its institutions...
The distribution of Germany's population is seriously skewed. The population is ageing and there are few births. Lower-Saxony - one of the northern countries of the Republic of Germany - is badly in need of babies. Germany's birth rate is 1.38 per woman...
In Jamaica over the last 50 years, political possibilities have been limited by the large number of party diehard ('die-hearted') supporters. These are persons who support their party no matter what it does or how badly it performs...
