Commentary

In 2018, CARICOM leaders, including Jamaica’s, committed to reduce food imports by 25 per cent by 2025. This means prioritising food and nutrition security and increasing agricultural production in the region to build resilience. Food should be...

The application of technological solutions along with artificial intelligent (AI) tools can be transformational. The smart-city concept is one example that demonstrates the far-reaching impact that the secure application of technological solutions...

Unless he has left out exculpable details, this newspaper finds implausible Finance Minister Nigel Clarke’s explanation for the collapse of his ministry’s effort to recoup monies from a top civil servant whose action, according to the auditor...

There is a strong correlation between gang membership and family breakdown as predictors of social disorder. In their few less desperate moments, the government ministers understand that but, self-shackled to existing structures, do nothing about...

The title of this article is from a question that was asked by the reporter in the evening news of TVJ on August 11. In the early ‘70s Robert Lightbourne, the visionary minister of trade and industry, knew that our nation was in a crisis because...

When Dave Cameron was removed as president of West Indies cricket, it was not surprising to me, because some of the power brokers in regional sport and the academy have strange relationships with truth and even lie directly to your face with smiles...

Hopefully, Howard Mitchell has hit upon the formula to resurrect and sustain one of Jamaica’s most urgent needs: a massive effort at social re-engineering, which we have generally referred to as a campaign for values and attitudes. Mr Mitchell...

My colleague and, most recently, my friend, BC Pires, died last Saturday. In looking through his many articles, columns and comments, this one about me demonstrates the ability of BC to get me (and other people) to talk, and then take from all that...

The good news for me last week was the announcement by the police that they have arrested a number of men for extortion of private passenger vehicle (PPV) operators within the Corporate Area. It seems that police personnel from the Public Safety...

Since October 7, the world’s media houses have been preoccupied with the latest Israeli/Palestine conflict. Everyone has conveniently forgotten that the problem in the Gaza Strip has been ongoing for over 17 years. Of note, however, is the fact...

Nicolás Maduro should scuttle his December 3 referendum to assert Venezuela’s claim to Guyana’s Essequibo region and properly return to the international judicial process to settle the countries’ border dispute. For while part of Mr Maduro’s aim...

Fayval Williams has not made a formal announcement about the scheme. It has, however, seeped out that the education minister has approved a plan for schools whose intake of grade-seven students are ill-prepared for secondary education to use their...