Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
Published: Monday Saturday | December 19, 2009
EDITORIAL - Local icons and philanthropy
This holy season's lessons of love, peace and goodwill are being taken to heart by some of the country's best-known icons, whose obvious love of Jamaica is spurring them to do good for their community. We refer to two such initiatives, Asafa Powell's benefit concert in support of his recently launched sports development foundation and entertainer Read More...
Bad tax policy, bad results
The Editor, Sir: A man once said insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I have come to the belief that this is the plight of our present government. For the third time this year they have come to the Jamaican people with more taxes. Read More...
His master's voice
My grandfather was a hunter, noted for his one hand and his crack-shot accuracy despite this handicap. The story was that it was the work of a jealous husband armed with a machete who encountered my grandfather in a compromising place and position. Read More...
Putting up a façade
The Editor, Sir: With respect to the letter of W. West, published in The Gleaner of December 17, kindly forgive me for presuming that the term 'non-heterosexual' was self-explanatory. Its use is based on a hetero-normative, binary definition of sexuality that I thought was a common belief. Read More...
