Commentary

Costa Rica, with little provocation, has just made our first national hero, Marcus Garvey, into an honorary citizen. We might have forgotten, but at 24 years old, he began his political and racial activism in Puerto Limon, in that country in 1911,...

When Nigel Clarke, the finance minister, closes the debate on the Government’s budget on Tuesday, there are two significant issues he must address – and clarify. One is about the wage agreement he signed with the teachers’ union a week ago,...

Citizens of Hanover have been complaining about damage to their roads caused by overloaded trucks transporting aggregate to a 2,000-room tourism project on the Westmoreland border. Complaints to the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have...

In his first book, published in 1994, the great Manchester United goalscorer Ryan Giggs shocked his readers, especially the younger ones, when they reached page 54 and found a double-page, black-and-white photo of his feet. Worse, despite his...

As this newspaper previously encouraged, and Keith Rowley, the Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, now suggests, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments should join Mexico’s lawsuit against American firearm marketers for the illegal flow of guns...

I THINK that it is safe for readers to assume that, at heart, The Gleaner supports fiscal responsibility, in general, and Jamaica’s fiscal rules, in particular, adherence of which its editorial page has championed across political administrations...

Fayval Williams’ argument that tackling violence in Jamaican schools is not only for the education ministry is unimpeachable. Indeed, as the minister said at a recent church-sponsored seminar in Ocho Rios, St Ann, the crisis demands a broad...

The time for the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) is upon us and while many parents are experiencing their own anxiety around their child’s preparedness and how they will perform, your child is experiencing stress related to the very same thing! As a...

The Government needs to explain why half a decade into Jamaica’s new Building Act giving the minister the power to do so – plus the rapid growth of mid-rise apartment complexes across the capital – there are no regulations making water harvesting...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been plaguing us for over three years. During this time, measures such as vaccination have helped to prevent the sequelae of infection with the virus from being even more catastrophic than it has been. However, I am very...

Shockingly, the other day, someone uttered an extremely inaccurate, anachronistic, and belittling misconception. He said that family physicians/general practitioners/primary-care physicians mainly see “coughs and colds”! We see everything from head...

Three significant and seemingly unrelated events took place in Britain in the last week. The one that received the most publicity was the announcement that Professor Jason Arday was, at 38, the youngest black professor to be employed by...