Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
Published: Monday Sunday | June 4, 2006
The trouble with religion
THE GLEANER-Bill Johnson poll on Thursday revealed that an astounding 92 per cent of Jamaicans consider themselves religious, and a previous poll showed strong support for the Prime Minister's decision to put pastors on state boards. Read More...
Lax local government - don't blame the system
THE CONTRACTOR-GENERAL'S report has put the heat on local government. It is shocking that unregistered contractors are getting jobs from parish councils by a process that ignores central government guidelines. It is time that Bruce Golding begins to talk. Read More...
Welcome to the isle of slackness
Where Do 'Baby Daddies' come from? The OED lists baby-daddy and baby-mama as 'colloquial, chiefly African-American' variants of the Jamaican terms baby-father and baby-mother; its first citation for baby-mother hails from the Kingston Daily Gleaner... Read More...
The 1938 riots (Pt II): The urban masses follow
AS REPORTS of the Frome riots rocked Kingston, St. William Grant took to the streets of the capital. After addressing a mass meeting, he led a deputation to the offices of the Jamaica Standard, where he delivered a petition to the newspaper's editor... Read More...
