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Gordon Robinson | Independence scam

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

One of Jamaica's finest public servants is a man named Herbert Samuel ('Herbie') Walker.Herbie was born on February 29, 1924. His public-service achievements are seminal but made all the more remarkable in that they came with an unshakable personal...

Mark Wignall | Can Peter Phillips energise PNP?

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Seventeen months after the February 2016 general election, very few people are talking about the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) tax give-back package that most believe won them the election. Now it is mostly about guns and murders.Many of us have...

Jamaica won't lose its music to foreigners - Industry Insiders

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small

Many decry the 'culture-vultures' cashing in on indigenous Jamaican music without acknowledgement of its origins, but there are those who see the benefit of the sound rumbling across the globe.Entertainment consultant Jerome Hamilton, founder of...

Betty Ann Blaine | For children’s sake, don’t touch buggery law

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

For the many persuasive spiritual, moral and pragmatic arguments being made for keeping the buggery law in place, the most compelling is the case for Jamaica's children and youth.First and foremost is the matter of the significant increase in the...

Orville Taylor | Bain’s buggery battle bottoms out

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

My friend and erstwhile colleague, Carolyn Cooper, and other purveyors of the Jamaican language would have no issue with my saying, "Mi Bain tell unoo so!" As it was 2014, when the story broke, I bet that some of you are surprised that I am engaging...

Techno-Tools for the classroom | Khan Academy Offline offers wealth of knowledge

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMGen Clacken

Khan Academy, created by educator Salman Khan in 2006, hosts one of the largest collections of instructional videos and related activities for the classroom. Their initiatives have now become invaluable assets to teaching and learning across many...

US-based JC old boy to help needy Jamaican students

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica College old boy and now a United States-based attorney-at-law, Jaime Aird, is moving to help needy students in Jamaica through the Caribbean Children's Foundation that he has recently established.Aird, who practises immigration and criminal...

Prospect of Carreras stock split excites market

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMSteven Jackson

Cigarette distributor Carreras Limited will consider splitting its stock at a board meeting next week but already the stock price has jumped in anticipation of a yes vote by directors.The company's shareholders would also have to approve the split....

90 years of excellence - School for the Blind on the hunt for $15m to continue top quality service

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMNadine Wilson-Harris

Administrators of the Salvation Army School for the Blind and Visually Impaired are pushing to raise $15 million this year to refurbish the school's library which was built in 1970."Our library is not up to the 21st century so that we (are not) able...

... Still seeing the big picture - School for the Blind pushes students towards the sciences

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

A fear of mathematics had pushed several blind students to pursue studies in the arts and humanities traditionally, but with several unable to get jobs in these areas, administrators of the Salvation Army School for the Blind and Visually Impaired...

Audi Q7 S-line full-size premium SUV

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Audi in past decades, has managed to reinvent itself and catch other automakers off guard with its fresh styling and innovative engineering. One of their current offerings from their full-size premium SUV line is the Audi Q7 S...

Position yourself for success

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMLaura Butler

It is said that 'focus goes where energy flows', which in essence means that at times, we allow ourselves to be consumed by things that are not important.Some things are out of our control such as the past, external energy, people, and circumstances...

Ian Boyne | Independence not song and dance

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Jamaicans will today flock to the Grand Gala at the National Stadium. There has been quite a hustle for tickets. We love song and dance. But don't mistake our passion for celebration with enduring national pride.Our Emancipendence celebration is...

The Music Diaries | Festival songs not what they used to be

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMRoy Black

When then Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna announced in 2013 that the Festival Song Competition for that year would be cancelled, it was greeted with scathing criticism from various quarters, including her opposite spokesperson, Olivia '...

US eyes on Ja's drugs links - New deputy American Navy officer for the region to aim at more than seizures

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Stephanie Keck, rear admiral of the United States Navy, has warned that Jamaica remains on the Americans radar as a transit point for narcotics in the Western Hemisphere.In its latest International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the US State...

FLA's failure ... Prompts call for new approach to appointing state boards

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeon Jackson

Outspoken Trelawny churchman, the Reverend Devere Nugent, has flayed the political system for the imbroglio now engulfing the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA).According to Nugent, the way the boards of state agencies are appointed by the Government...

Martin Henry | What was Jamaica like in 1962?

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

You could talk to the older heads. Thumb through the pages of The Daily Gleaner for that year when the paper was already 127 years old. Or skim the pages of several other periodicals, and there were several being published then, few of which have...

Jamaican students gain work experience with Diaspora-owned companies

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Twelve software engineering students are receiving practical job experience by working with international companies over the summer.This is under the 'Calico Open Source Software Development Project,' which is being undertaken by the Diaspora...

Yaneek Page | The customer is not always right

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The assertion that the customer is always right is possibly the most common management mantra repeated relentlessly by businesses, organisations and customers over the last 100 years since it was coined by retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1909....

The key to successful debt consolidation

Published:Friday | August 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

When your personal finances teeter on the brink, your first instinct might be to do something drastic. Freeze your credit cards in a block of ice. Vow to never eat out again. Forgo your Netflix subscription.These tactics may help, but financial...

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