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Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:44 PMBANG Bizarre

Elections make people miserable, new research has discovered. A landmark study of three decades worth of polls of over a million adults in 24 European countries has found that elections cause dissatisfaction to rise by an average of 16 per cent....

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:33 PMBANG Bizarre

A runaway cat has been reunited with its owners after 14 years. Mandy Prior revealed that her moggy Taz vanished after escaping through a bathroom window of her family home back in 2007. Prior admits that she is "shocked" that the cat has...

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 11:23 PMBANG Bizarre

A McDonald's addict has eaten a burger from the fast-food chain every other day for the past two decades. David Geyer has eaten over 4,000 burgers from the restaurant and has even had a tattoo inked on his leg to mark his devotion to the Golden...

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 2:36 AMRichard Haass for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK – The report issued Friday by the US intelligence community on the murder of Saudi journalist and permanent US resident Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey mostly confirms what we already...

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 2:26 AMNouriel Roubini for Project Syndicate

NEW YORK – The US economy’s K-shaped recovery is underway. Those with stable full-time jobs, benefits, and a financial cushion are faring well as stock markets climb to new highs. Those who are unemployed or partially employed in low-...

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 2:15 AMJoseph S. Nye for Project Syndicate

CAMBRIDGE – When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White House spokesperson replied that the US saw the relationship as one of strong competition that...

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 2:09 AMAndrés Velasco for Project Syndicate

LONDON – While they stare quietly at their models, macroeconomists are hearing the distant rumble of revolt. A year ago, the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz announced that capitalism was undergoing “yet another existential...

Published:Wednesday | March 3, 2021 | 2:01 AMNgaire Woods for Project Syndicate

OXFORD – In a recent letter to her G20 colleagues, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen argued that a truly global COVID-19 vaccination programme “is the strongest stimulus we can provide to the global economy.” With rich...

Published:Tuesday | March 2, 2021 | 1:12 AM

This week there has been much to talk about but The Gleaner chose to focus on what hasn’t been spoken about. According to Saturday’s editorial, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Audley Shaw, while pointing to the issues...

Published:Tuesday | March 2, 2021 | 12:51 AM

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line up of cartoons as...

Published:Tuesday | March 2, 2021 | 12:31 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Retired Superintendent of Police James Forbes, this week, successfully appealed a 2014 conviction on corruption and from the short, everybody is happy about it, not least of all Forbes himself. A stellar career on the verge of being tainted has...

Published:Tuesday | March 2, 2021 | 12:09 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has come out swinging at persons who have been throwing bombs themselves. Suggesting there is a difference between working hard and appearing to work hard. According to the Prime Minister, his absence from public...

Published:Monday | March 1, 2021 | 11:45 PMJovan Johnson/Staff Reporter

This week The Gleaner ran into a roadblock when it requested the contract details for the tax and police commissioners, sparking a firestorm over whether the reasons of the Office of the Services Commissions for the blockade are warranted under a...

Published:Monday | March 1, 2021 | 11:24 PMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

The spread of COVID-19 put paid to sports in Jamaica, but unlike something like track and field, where an athlete can train, a team sport like football has suffered even more. For a team like Waterhouse, this poses problems of a regional scale that...

Published:Monday | March 1, 2021 | 11:04 PMOlivia Brown/Gleaner Writer

It seems a not completely unfamiliar case of Jamaican police work not being able to keep up with the organisation of international criminal minds, as Dr Horace Chang, minister of national security, has had to admit that the country was bested by...

Published:Monday | March 1, 2021 | 10:41 PMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

The sight and sounds of a mother weeping for the loss of a child is nothing new, but The Gleaner’s depiction of Narda McKoy’s story and the fact that her loss seemed, to her, avoidable, deservedly caught the attention of the nation this...

Published:Sunday | February 28, 2021 | 11:36 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Mary Seacole was born Mary Joan Grant in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805 to a Creole mother and a Scottish father. It was from her mother that she inherited her interest in nursing. Mary's mother, nicknamed “the Doctress”, kept a lodging...

Published:Sunday | February 28, 2021 | 11:25 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Erna Brodber was a literary giant, who used her brilliance with the pen to fight for the downtrodden. Her many titles are a testament to the brilliance of the St Mary native, who grew up in the farming community of Woodside. Sociologist, check!...

Published:Sunday | February 28, 2021 | 11:04 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Edna Manley is, today, agreed to be one of the most important artists and art educators in Jamaica’s history. Her work and influence transformed the landscape locally, with creatives countrywide being able to thank her for a continuous churn...

Published:Sunday | February 28, 2021 | 10:43 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

They say that behind every successful man, there is a woman, and that can be said about Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey, the second wife of National Hero, Marcus Garvey. Jacques Garvey was a pioneering female black Journalist, activist and publisher in...

Published:Sunday | February 28, 2021 | 10:28 PMArnold Bertram/Contributor

The enthusiastic contribution of women to the People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) overwhelming victory in 1976 was a clear indicator of the progress they had made during Michael Manley’s administration. Throughout the campaign...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 10:26 PMThe Gleaner Archives

Miss Lou, bringing the culture, the police bringing the order, Leslie Mais bring the sport, and The Gleaner bringing it all into sharp focus all the back in 1949. A picture is worth a thousand words, here are a three thousand worth of memories.

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 10:16 PMThe Gleaner Archives

As you can imagine, advertisements in 1952 were a far cry from what exists today. The all-black and white newspaper, for one, left little in the way of creativity for advertisers to work with, but still many of them, the 'Ad Men' of the day...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 10:05 PMThe Gleaner Archives

There are those who say the vote to move away from the West Indies Federation was a backward step for Jamaica and the Caribbean and there are those who believe so strongly in the strength of being Jamaican, that going it alone is always the best...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 9:15 PMThe Gleaner Archives

The Kendal train crash is remembered mostly in terms of statistics but when one flips through the pages of the September 3, 1957 edition of The Daily Gleaner, the story in black and white brings a kind of deadly colour to those memories. Published...

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