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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Friday | May 12, 2006

A blight on our children ' s future
IT IS not surprising that several parents in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, should have claimed ignorance, as reported in yesterday's Gleaner, of breaching the Child Care and Protection Act by having their school-age children working as vendors when they..

Beer companies square off at cricket
MY ATTENTION was drawn to a news item on the Internet earlier this week relating to a quarrel between two regional beer distributors over the right to sell their products at the recently-ended One Day International... - Dennie Quill


The thin line
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller is the last of a special breed in the People's National Party (PNP). She is the only sitting government Member of Parlia-ment who has sat in the Parliament as a member of the Opposition. - Heather Robinson


How things do not get done
CERTAIN WORDS are beloved of bureaucrats: words like monitor, check, regulate, classify and control. Observe something significant about these words. They all involve delay. Delay is the name of a bureaucrat's game. - Ian McDonald




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