There are rumours of a Cabinet reshuffle. If they are true, I hope the reshuffle will not just be musical chairs - a change of cast but with the same script - but a rearrangement of portfolios.
THE CONTROVERSY surrounding the renaming of the Boscobel Airport should have been expected. After all, Ian Fleming was not a local, and the christening would have had deeper national impact...
WE CONFESS to having some sympathy for youth leaders who last week expressed disaffection with Olivia 'Babsy' Grange's management of the youth portfolio in the Golding administration.However, Mr Ryan Small and others who threw barbs at Ms Grange...
ARE WE looking with hope towards the future of a reconstructed Haiti, or to past experiences? I argue for hope as I read about the reopening of the historic Port-au-Prince Iron Market ...
Politicians are often criticised for being arrogant. Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, the former Haitian despot, has certainly lived up to that reputation...
Below is feedback from readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com to yesterday's Gleaner editorial, 'Values and attitudes, Chinese style'.partisanship killed PJ'S projectI strongly suspect that the opposition to PJ's initiative was an example ...
Delano Seiveright, president of Generation 2000 (G2K), the Jamaica Labour Party's young-professional affiliate, recently created a dust-up when he submitted an open memo to Prime Minister Bruce Golding suggesting a major change to...
According to the prepared text of her address to last Sunday's closed meeting of the People's National Party's (PNP) National Executive Committee (NEC), the party's president, Portia Simpson Miller, declared her intention to speak "frankly and bluntly".
Below is feedback from readers from our website www.jamaica-gleaner.com re yesterday's lead story 'Lay off Babsy'.unfit for high officeThe kids are right.
Twice when he was prime minister, a decade apart, P.J. Patterson took shots at promoting good behaviour and decency in Jamaica. On both occasions, Mr Patterson's Values and Attitudes campaigns became the butt of derision...
Step on the average Jamaican's toes and he'll unfold more cloth than Ping's and Pablos shuffle through their doors on their best sale day. Pay him back by cutting him off in traffic...
A confidential 2006 cable from the United States (US) Embassy in Haiti, subsequently made public by WikiLeaks, said the US viewed the possible return of either of the two exiled Haitian ex-presidents...
Ruby Rubacuore stared into Silvio Berlusconi's eyes - well, she said it was only his eyes - saw his soul and asked Italians to go easy on their scandal-ridden prime minister.
Barack Obama understands that it is not enough for America to merely emerge from the worst recession it has faced for nearly 80 years. He wants robust growth, which should, in turn, create the jobs to replace the hundreds of thousands...
Below are comments posted by online readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com regarding the Sunday Gleaner story, 'Politics captured by incompetents'.Businessmen looking out for themselvesThe abandonment of the political process by the business...
The horrific Tucson, Arizona, shootings that took place just over two weeks ago have shocked people across the globe.It also made us realise that sometimes freedom comes at a high price. Six innocent dead and 13 injured...
When I made my usual visit to Coronation Market two Saturdays ago, there was no '$10-a-lb' cabbage in sight as protesting higglers had claimed a few days before.
Despite the unquestioned strides that education has made in Jamaica since Independence, successive governments have struggled to address the innumerable challenges that still plague this essential component of our national development.
It is amazing how our political parties and our Parliament can come together quickly and seemingly effortlessly to maintain their power over the people.
Richard Byles' suggestion, at a forum organised by this newspaper last Thursday, is likely to find favour with the wider public, as it does with us, but with certain caveats.Mr Byles and his...
Before the birth of our modern political era, the founding president of our first major political party had already begun to tap our people's economic potential by sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship and enterprise among them.
Even trained conservative clergypersons admit having difficulties explaining what our Lord Jesus Christ meant when he said, "... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword ..." (Mt 10:34b) in light of Jesus' lovey-dovey general behaviour in the New Testament.
There are clear indications that there are persons in the Ministry of Health who want to foster creativity and innovation in their management of the health sector. We refer to the plan to lure doctors to rural health-care facilities through a programme of incentives.
You never read about a plane that did not crash or about the laws a politician did not break. This is the nature of our daily news. It is called the 'man bites dog' phenomenon or the statement made by a news editor...
