Jamaica Gleaner - Commentary - Saturday

EDITORIAL - Agriculture digging its grave

How can Government suggest that agriculture presents the best hope for rural development when the agency charged with driving that vehicle is not given vital budgetary resources to undertake the job?

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PetroCaribe, ALBA merge in new economic zone

As announced earlier this month by Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell, the latest regional PetroCaribe meeting, which he attended in Caracas, brought some reassuring news for Jamaicans. Agreements struck at that meeting not only continued, but actually expanded, oil-rich Venezuela's PetroCaribe arrangements with participating countries in the Caribbean.

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Planet of the Apes

On June 30, 1860, seven months after Charles Darwin published his famous book on evolution (On The Origin Of Species), several prominent British scientists and philosophers got into a very heated discussion at the Oxford University Museum. What makes the event memorable is a question that the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, asked Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his passionate advocacy on behalf of Darwin's theories.

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Devon House - unsafe, unwelcoming chill spot

I was so distraught and infuriated on Friday, May 17, 2013 when I went to Devon House. Upon reaching, I realised that there was yellow tape around most of the trees which surrounded a wide area where persons would sit and relax.

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Editorial - Good early childhood initiative

The unreasonable and noisy effort by teachers to cling to their overgenerous and unaffordable leave and study entitlements has so far overshadowed another important policy initiative by Ronnie Thwaites.

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Whitmore's last gamble - Top Boyz recalled with Tappa's back against wall

The squad for Jamaica's three upcoming World Cup qualifiers demonstrates that the coach is still keen on improving his squad, but even at this late hour is unsure of exactly who his best players...

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Facilitating corruption

On Wednesday last, this newspaper exposed the absolutely scandalous situation of widespread breaches of the Corruption (Prevention) Act by our public servants...

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Revealing Jamaica's soul - Stacey's story is not uncommon

This is the third in a series of columns by Jamaicans for Justice in commemoration of Child Month.It was lunchtime when Stacey'scaregiver, Ms Allen, instructed her to eat outside with the other wards....