The PNP contenders address the issues ...
The Sunday Gleaner wrote to each of the People's National Party contenders for leadership, requesting answers to critical nation-building issues. To date, front-runners Dr. Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security, Portia Simpson Miller, Minister...

The origin of Christmas
CHRISTMAS IS the most revered holiday in the calendar of the western world. Unlike other holidays with a single purpose, Christmas has several features which are all compelling. It is recognised for its religious significance: commemoration of the...

Christmas with a volunteer family
"PRESENTS, JUICE, cake, ice cream, dinner, chicken, rice and uhm, talking," make up the Christmas wish list of shy six-year-old Peter. And he will be lucky enough to get them.

Give us direction! - Crime, social, economic issues concern young people
WITH JUST one week before the New Year, and maybe two months before a new Prime Minister is sworn in, younger Jamaicans continue to scoff at all things political.

Murder and the youths
MURDER IS Jamaica's leading problem. Over 1,500 people have been murdered since the start of the year, the highest number of murders in the nation's history. More than 900 of them were committed by boys aged 16 and under between 2000 and 2004.

Getting to the youths
PRESIDENT OF Generation 2000 (G2K), the professional youth arm of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party president, Senator Christopher Tufton, says a majority of youth shy away from politics because they suffer the brunt of society's failures.

Politics? No way!
MOST ARE wary about going into politics themselves. It is too corrupt. "No, no. I would not go into politics," says Taneishaa banking and finance major at the University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI). "Banking and Finance is my major, so...