EDITORIAL - No transparency on energy
In yesterday's Gleaner, Mr Damian Obiglio, the CEO of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the light and power company, was quoted as making the point that had the decision been his, coal would long have been the country's fuel of choice to fire its power plants to generate energy.

Churchgoing atheists
This time of year always brings to mind things spiritual and religious. The human mind is indeed miraculous, wondrous, amazing and yet perplexing. Many people claim to believe in God, yet their lives portray the antithesis of godliness (devoutness).

Israel and the Arab spring
The Arab spring, whose name is apt owing to the hotter temperatures it is carrying on its winds, advances deeper into the Middle East. It would have been an intrepid soul who would have predicted that Syria, one of the world's most ruthlessly efficient dictatorships, would find itself roiled by a citizen uprising.

A tribute to the late Angella Harvey
Angella Harvey, the dynamic and dependable former cultural affairs specialist in the US Embassy in St Andrew, who for 30 years while working under several US ambassadors to Jamaica exercised tremendous skill and hard work in cementing US-Jamaica relations through culture and education, was easily one of the sweetest souls that ever lived.