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EDITORIAL - No free pass for Floyd Morris

Floyd Morris' elevation to the presidency of the Jamaican Senate is symbolically important.For whether he wishes to be so or not, Mr Morris is a torch-bearer to many thousands of blind and visually impaired persons in Jamaica and those with others forms...

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Freudian slip or Gordian knot?

On Sunday, May 12, some editorial genius at The Gleaner actually published the following headline: 'Expect no privacy in public spaces'.Duh? For this to reach my front door, somebody must've thought of it; then had the brainless temerity to submit it to...

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Tablets in schools, yes, but please ... !

I read with a sense of regret about the recent stabbing incident at the Penwood High School, an occurrence which has become all too commonplace....

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Return statue, bust of racist Gandhi

A lecturer at postgrad in the humanities once asked if I was sure that Cubans practised racial discrimination against its black populace....

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EDITORIAL - Sounder logic from the other Mr Thwaites

We agree with the proposal by Ronald Thwaites, the education minister, for a "positive, value-laden and age-appropriate family-life curriculum" in Jamaica's schools....

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Jamaica: conversion from Christianity to paganism

On Easter Monday morning, I was really shocked and saddened to see Jamaica at its worst.In the past, whereas Jamaica would have celebrated Easter in our Sunday best, fully decked out heading off to worship with smiles and sunshine on our faces and a hymn in our hearts ...

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Cop killers must be stopped

A patient of mine who is a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was maintaining a police presence, parked in a marked police vehicle, close to an intersection with a very major thoroughfare in St Andrew.As he observed the traffic ...

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Deal with bullies before ...

We've seen it on the news too many times over the years. An unassuming teenager who 'never really fit in' shows up at school in some obscure town in the United States, with a gun, and opens fire...