Commentary

Just last month, I telephoned Eddie asking for permission to publish the talk he gave in 1994 to launch my book Noises in the Blood. The invitation to the event was a dancehall-style poster. Eddie mischievously embraced the identity I’d seduced him...

Listening to the Christmas song, “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth …” I started laughing loudly because, if I tried that, I would have to make it “ten front teeth” with more to come, especially if I go past 79 and...

Question: What would it take to get you to vote in the upcoming elections? Answer: Nothing. Many cynics will have a lot to say about this one. In the latest survey conducted by pollster Don Anderson, 21 per cent of respondents said that nothing...

Parliament’s steep hike – by over 240 per cent – of the salary threshold at which public sector workers have to file annual income, assets and liability statements with the Integrity Commission (IC) is a logical move. As the IC explained in...

I READ recently where Mr Calvin Allen, a senior superintendent of police, held a press conference in July 2016 in which he urged motorists to desist from putting flashing lights on their vehicles to replicate emergency vehicles. He advised the...

INTRODUCTION The Andrew Holness-led administration never misses an opportunity to remind the country that no previous administration has made the massive investment in national security as they have done since assuming the reins of Government....

We should perhaps look at the brighter side. The 38 per cent of Jamaicans who say they will vote in municipal elections when they are called is statistical equivalent to the amount (37.85 per cent) who cast ballots in the September 2020 general...

A nation’s foreign affairs can often appear to be governed by the infamous Doctrine of Doing Nothing. That concept was introduced into Jamaica’s political lexicon by Lisa Hanna in the 2018 Sectoral Debate as she critiqued Jamaica’s weak-kneed...

It was appropriate that Jamaica’s first poet laureate who adopted the name Tom Redcam was honoured by the use of that name to identify a road where buildings alongside it would be used for general education and various categories of ‘the arts’....

The early results of a reading initiative at Denham Town High School in Kingston provides more than ample evidence, this newspaper believes, for an urgent, even if short-term revamp, of the mission of Jamaica’s primary schools. Their core...

The fundamentals of the Guyana-Venezuela border dispute weren’t changed by Thursday’s summit between Irfaan Ali and Nicolás Maduro, the presidents, respectively, of Guyana and Venezuela. The leaders left St Vincent and the Grenadines with the...

He is Craig, not the ‘Buckla’ from the Oliver at Large series, so ‘him no follow backa nobody’. Butler is the surname and he is the controversial and even sometimes typified as divisive, connoisseur of football. Head of the Mona-based Phoenix...