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Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In March 2012, I had the privilege of attending the first ever Caribbean Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Human Capacity Development in Montego Bay.

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

With the recent resurgence of concern in Jamaica regarding the prevalence of sexual violence, officials have attempted to address the warranted concerns of the public

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The following is the presentation by immediate past general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) (UK and Ireland) to the Press Association of Jamaica and National Integrity Action at Knutsford Court Hotel during National Journalism Week 2012.

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

As I read the article titled 'Another side to schoolboy recruiting' by Peter Brooks of St George's College (StGC) (Sunday Gleaner, December 2, 2012) supporting, generally, the business of student athlete recruiting (buying, in Jamaican parlance),

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

A week ago, I attempted to bring some balance to the debate concerning recruitment in high-school sports, and particularly, what happens at St George's College, as it seems that this institution has been targeted as the demagogue of 'that evil practice' since its most recent dominance of high-school football in 2008.

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The following is a submission by the Jamaica Civil Society Coalition (JCSC).

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Transparency International (TI) has published its 2012 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report days after Greg Christie demitted office as contractor general.

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

IF THE University of Technology (UTech) students were privy to a Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) class while in high school, they, perhaps, would not have been involved in inciting violence against a colleague allegedly caught in a homosexual liaison on campus.

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

God speaks Jamaican too.

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In reading Lord Justice Leveson's 45-page summary of his 2,000-page report on the phone-hacking scandal and other misdeeds of the British press, published last week, as well as reflecting on the American media's coverage of the recent Road to the White...

Published:Sunday | December 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

It's time to take an objective look at the Middle East to properly understand the present crisis.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Finally, I understand what former Republican representative from Missouri, Todd Akin, must have meant by "legitimate rape".

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Yesterday was World AIDS Day. In school, we were taught that you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Swirling dust from ministerial SUVs roaring across this potholed country may have obscured an important job-vacancy advertisement appearing in the papers last Sunday.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

In the 11 months since their overwhelming general election victory last December, which the people granted in a moment of good faith, I have to confess that I've found myself increasingly disappointed with the prime minister's, and the People's National...

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Below is a lightly edited excerpt from a contribution by North West Manchester Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips to the parliamentary pension reform debate in November.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

There has been ongoing debate about the changes that Jamaica must make to the structures of society in order for us to be on a path of sustainable socio-economic growth and development.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Last year, then Minister of Finance Audley Shaw came under intense pressure from the People's National Party (PNP) and its supporters to conclude arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Given our political history and reputation for corruption, in December 2005 few would have thought that the newly appointed contractor general would have been such a transformational character and the supreme overseer of good governance in the fight...

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Last Friday, more than 1,500 cities around the world illuminated symbolic public buildings in commemoration of the first abolition of the death penalty, which took place in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in contemporary Italy, on November 30, 1786.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Much has been written in the media over the past few years about the policy of recruiting in schoolboy football.

Published:Sunday | December 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

A new policy paper issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Wednesday has highlighted public-sector wage growth and high public-sector employment as major contributing factors to the Caribbean's debt crisis.

Published:Sunday | November 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

I am indeed grateful to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) for taking the trouble to respond to the suggestion made by my article in The Sunday Gleaner ('Jamaica's energy conundrum', November 4, 2012) that the OUR has been less than diligent in approving that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) build a 360MW plant for electricity generation. I note, by contrast, that the JPS itself has not found it necessary to respond.

Published:Sunday | November 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Lance Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France cycling titles - a most remarkable feat for which he was lauded and compensated. However, recently he was stripped of all his titles for taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Published:Sunday | November 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

I continue to have a deep, abiding faith in God and personal reliance on Christ's Word.However, I've lost all respect for, and trust in, the Church, a man-made organisation whose sole purpose is mind control using fear based on centuries-old random collections of articles by a motley crew of authors, some anonymous, in a book called The Old Testament.

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