Commentary

Current affairs commentators are tying themselves into knots dissecting sections 29 and 30 of Financial Administration and Audit Act (FAAA). Why? Depending on which political viscera consumes them, they’ve irresistible urges to prove Auditor...

It will have escaped few people’s attention that Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Aubyn Hill is passionate about increasing Jamaican exports and unlocking the huge potential of increased trade to boost growth. As the representative of...

While this newspaper appreciates the breadth of the housing development highlighted by Prime Minister Andrew Holness in the Budget Debate, we are disappointed that a major, aggressive and coordinated programme for the transformation of inner-city...

Around 2,024 years ago, a man who dared to say all men were equal and that we should treat others as we want to be treated, pulled off an act that not even Houdini or any modern magician can. On the third day after being tortured, nailed on to a...

Among the many issues that attracted attention in the 2024/25 Budget Debate is the proposal for GCT to be removed from imported raw foods, in keeping with Jamaica’s legal obligations, as a signatory to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (...

‘Lights, camera, action’ ... there is a joyful expectation and magic whenever we hear those three words in sequence. Jamaica-based filmmakers are rightfully excited by the government’s announcement of a film development fund, but let us not count...

While we hail the announcement that a new Port Royal Museum will open in May, it is hardly enough to assuage the hurt felt by many Jamaicans who have witnessed the neglect, decay and near demise of a historic landmark like the once revered Vale...

SO, ANOTHER ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships is in the record books, and those infernal purple people from North Street have walked away with yet another title in the bag. I will admit that although I very publicly...

Globally respected anthropologist and public intellectual, Don Robotham, fails to inject new life and new thinking into debates on matters of national importance to Jamaica and the wider world. In his contribution to The Gleaner of March 17,...

“The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified...

Tuesday, March 19, was a dark day for Jamaica’s democracy. During his Budget Debate presentation, Opposition Leader Mark Golding mentioned the issue of the prime minister’s spouse being the House Speaker and its incongruity with the principle of...

“I saw how that man disrespected my mother. He broke up our family and went off flashing his d**k wherever he pleased. I probably have sisters and brothers who I don’t even know. I will never trust a man the way that she did.” Her anger turned into...