Commentary

If I had money, I would be in Barbados today watching cricket. If I win the lotto tomorrow I would head to Barbados right away especially if I had won enough to hire a plane. If I had a lot of money, I would buy my own plane, fly to Barbados, and...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) needs to provide deeper justification for its decision to lease a property that it won’t have occupied for five years, and on which it will have spent perhaps J$1.7 billion by the time it moves in. This doesn’t...

No matter how great the parenting style, at some point even the most well-behaved children do the wrong thing. In those critical moments, parents cannot simply do nothing. Because some parents have been doing nothing, children have been left to...

The Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) intention to remove several STEM subjects from its offering is the result of not only low enrolment of students for the exams, or their poor performance in the tests. It is also, in Jamaica’s case, one of...

Recent events involving Minister Daryl Vaz’s public disclosure of personal data about Mark Golding have thrust the delicate balance between privacy rights and public interest into the spotlight. This incident raises critical questions about how...

This newspaper is surprised at the seeming lack of urgency with which Jamaica’s education authorities, especially Minister Fayval Williams, have reacted to the reported plan by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to discontinue the testing of...

Recently, Opposition Leader Mark Golding expressed his support of dual citizens being allowed to sit in the Houses of Parliament in Jamaica, and all hell broke loose. There were demands for Golding to admit if he has British citizenship as well,...

Based on the lingering concerns in the public domain regarding the use of polymer, the central bank wishes to reaffirm our confidence in the decision to adopt and introduce polymer banknotes. As the issuing authority for currency, the Bank of...

Delroy Chuck is right that corporal punishment rarely works as a tool to change children’s behaviour. So, the premise upon which he has articulated the Government’s plan to outlaw the beating of children in Jamaican homes is sound. Children live...

Jamaica’s history of trying to reform our Constitution has been a long and winding road. There have been many potholes in the road of the Jamaican people’s struggle to improve their living conditions and to find a legal framework to support their...

The rather confident “general assistant bot” on poe.com gives this account of the origin and definition of the word ‘pree’: “In Jamaican slang, the word ‘pree’ is derived from the English word ‘peer’ and is used to mean ‘to look at’ or ‘to observe...

Despite the prevalence of mental health problems throughout the world, and in Jamaica, the vast majority of citizens do not know that May is mental health awareness month. Since 1949, the United States of America has been observing May as National...