Commentary

Cynics might claim that voters have finally caught up with Prime Minister Andrew Holness, even if he may have since changed his mind. What, however, findings of the poll on the attitude of Jamaicans to term limits for political leaders clearly...

A week ago, The Sunday Times broke the news: “Degree course to open for online influencers.” Not even a respectable media house like The Times could resist the hype. That provocative headline does not tell the whole story. I heard about the...

If you completed your high school education here in the 1970s or 1980s you already got an elite education, which put you in a range way past the average American or British citizen of that epoch. It’s no accident that Tanya Chutkan, the judge...

My friend Sose was angry and came into the bar ready for war. “I will coffee down. True. I will coffee down and jump on his face. Let me catch him and when I finish coffee down he dead!” Believing that a little sweetening and the milk of human...

For many, the takeover of all church and private schools by the government of Guyana in 1976 is still fresh in our minds. Prior to 1976, the churches ran the best schools in the country, compared to government-owned schools which were of lower...

Assuming she acted on her own volition – as was indirectly implied by Finance Minister Nigel Clarke – Valrie Curtis’ recent premature advisory to senators that were in line for a hefty pay hike is another case of managers bungling in Parliament...

LAST WEEK, Mother Nature gave us a very violent reminder that despite the great advancements we’ve made in science and technology, at the end of the day, she’s still the boss. The magnitude 5.0 earthquake which was felt right across the island, and...

In scenes more chilling than in Jamaica 13 years ago, when gunmen gathered in Tivoli Gardens hoping to thwart the arrest of strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, Haiti’s powerful gang boss, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier, marched in Port-au-Prince last...

The focus last week at the UN General Assembly High Level General Debate remained on implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The headline from the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, was that only 15 per cent of the SDG...

The Dunce made so many senseless domino choices that Haemorrhoid was distracted from complaining about “piles and piles” of files on his desk. He launched yet another of his endless Shaggy Dog tales: “Darren, the world’s richest man, is dying. He...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes’ declaration that Jamaica’s parish courts, where citizens are more likely to interact with the justice system, are now backlog-free is a development to be celebrated. But this newspaper won’t be overly wild about it just...

This is the story of honour and dishonour as evidenced in our lives last week. Honour makes life beautiful, elevated and purposeful. It is a virtue less to be described and more to be identified in behaviour – and then emulated. Honour’s opposite,...