Commentary

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance”. Some constitutional amendments require substantial consensus between the two political parties, and some do not. The Opposition has leverage when it comes to deeply entrenched matters, which require...

I AM not a supporter of the integration of politics and sports. In the Jamaican context, this merger has been increasing over time to the extent that these days there is hardly an event that one does not see a politician ‘putting in an appearance...

Pearnel Charles Jr’s signal that the Government – or at least the labour ministry, which he heads – has begun to think about how to keep Jamaicans in the workforce longer is a welcome development. Indeed, as this newspaper suggested when it...

When this article is published, the 58th regular session of the CARICOM Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) in Georgetown, Guyana, will be in its second day. It will be chaired by Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Trade and Industry...

My previous article triggered a healthy discussion, including critical questions related to the role of the students and their parents. In this article, I focus on the student-level interventions proposed by my colleague Damion Crawford in his...

If they are capable of shame, the spin doctors and enablers at the National Land Agency (NLA) are probably parading Jamaica in sackcloth and ashes, seeking penance. This newspaper, however, does not really expect that the honchos of the NLA will...

A couple of World Championships ago, the president of the IAAF, Lord Sebastian Coe, praised Jamaican schools highly for turning out world-class runners. This struck me as odd, since that is not the mission of public schools and since the public...

There has been a surprising paucity of public debate in Jamaica – and other countries in the English-speaking Caribbean that retain the Judicial Committee of Privy Council (JCPC) as their final court – over proposed new rules that could, on its...

In 1957, an influential book by the Jamaican anthropologist Edith Clarke was published with the provocative title, My Mother Who Fathered Me. It was the Barbadian writer George Lamming who first used that striking image in his 1953 novel In the...

Many people know about the learning curve, it is “… the representation in graph form of the rate of learning something over time or repeated experiences. Learning curves are a visualisation of the difficulty estimated in learning a subject over a...

‘Doodoo’, ‘Darling’, ‘Honey’ and ‘Love’ are nicknames, but they can also be the result of an old man who can’t remember his wife’s name and doesn’t want her to know. Or they can be a way of showing affection when you’re young. They called me ‘Bebop...

The fine print is yet to be unveiled. However, Christopher Tufton’s promised reset of Jamaica’s primary healthcare system, and an allied J$2.5-billion initiative to train additional medical staff, are, on their face, worthy undertakings. However...