Wednesday, August 25, will mark a year since Jamaica received a request from the United States for Christopher Coke's extradition. He was not extradited until 10 months later...

Another anniversary of Jamaica's Independence has passed, leaving us uncomfortably close to the anniversary that will count the most.

The following is the first of two excerpts from the speech delivered by new president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, Nadine Molloy, at the association's conference at the Jamaica Grande hotel, Ocho Rios, August 16.

Being a Jamaican away from home, I am looking out for further word on the 'Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches"' I first read about in the July 30 online edition of The Gleaner.

Historians, sociologists, cultural anthropologists and some soft-headed Christians, are to be blamed for the now popular but suspect or meaningless notion that Rastafarianism is the most indigenous religious expression...