Though not having a realistic chance of copping this year's coveted Boys' Championships title, St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) boys' track and field team will be seeking to improve on their performance last year...
AHMEDABAD, India:India ended Australia's 12-year World Cup domination yesterday with Sachin Tendulkar leading a star-studded batting line-up to a five-wicket victory which set up a semi-final classic against arch-rivals Pakistan.The Australians,...
Jamaica will today need to bat with authority if they are to gain at least first-innings honours against England Lions in their top-of-the-table West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-day Tournament clash at Sabina Park. The Lions, who won the toss and chose...
We make no comment about the Moriarity Report that was published in Ireland this week and made adverse findings about how Mr Denis O'Brien, the owner of the Jamaica-based telecoms company, Digicel, acquired a mobile telephone licence in Ireland a decade...
Last Friday saw the first nationwide protests against the Baath regime in Syria.Since then, between 10 and 37 protesters, according to media reports, have been killed. If these protests develop into a full-scale revolt, the regime's response may dwarf...
For the first time in the almost half a century we have been an independent country, the Lower House of our Parliament has amended an 'entrenched' section of the Jamaican Constitution - and an important one too: Chapter III - the Charter of Fundamental...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I am trying to find my family in Jamaica.My father is Clinton Bancroft Bailey. He is 75 and now lives in Sheffield, England, to which he migrated around 1961. My father is from a small village called Bell Hill in St Mary.
THE EDITOR, Sir:In The Sunday Gleaner of March 20, in an article titled 'A tale of two secrets' by Lambert Brown, he wrote in the context of the 'Dudus' Coke extradition request that: "There is no constitutional right in Jamaica or anywhere else in the...
THE EDITOR, Sir:Whatever answers the Manatt-Dudus enquiry provides, one of the enduring mysteries is what made Prime Minister Bruce Golding believe that he could use a political party to retain lobbyists to do business with the United States government...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I have read and sometimes enjoyed the views put forward by your columnist, Mr Gordon Robinson.However, in his column on Tuesday, March 22, I am bewildered by his logic (or lack thereof).
THE EDITOR, Sir:I would like to add my voice to those who oppose the recently announced purchase of Claro by the dominant cellular and broadband provider in Jamaica, and possibly the Caribbean, Digicel.While Digicel claims that the sale is subject ...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I find in society today a strident infringement upon what one considers to be the rights of individuals and of people in business.I am finding that one can no longer select the persons that they would chose to work in an organisation, as...
THE EDITOR, Sir: Jamaica is in danger of losing its much-vaunted press freedom.Not that the boundaries of that freedom are often tested, given the self-censorship of our media owners...
After teaming up on New Year's Eve for 'Masquerade', Lawless Events and Club Privilege have decided to partner on another project."After the feedback we got from Masquerade, immediately we advanced plans for a series leading up to the summer...
The Mutual Gallery and Art Centre Ltd has launched an under-40 art competition.Dubbed the Super Plus Under-40 Artist Of The Year Competition, the contest aims to promote new developments in Jamaican contemporary art...
An attractive décor is one of the party aspects which Bachannal Jamaica seems to always have down pat. This year there is the not-so-little green man or green figure - or outline, to be more exact - dancing on the massive Matterhorn iceberg...
Ai Irisawa does not define herself as a promoter, although she puts on Kingston Rock monthly.She started Kingston Rock as a weekly live performance and party on Sundays in October 2010 because, despite the deluge of music...
The world's largest ship, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Oasis of the Seas coloured the pages of Falmouth's notebook on Tuesday, taking its rightful place in the historically rich, 18th-century-built, commercial capital.Passengers from the Oasis of the...