Commentary

Voter turnout has shown significant decline since the election of 1989. Prior to that election voter turnout averaged a healthy 82 per cent per election up to the election of 1980. The 1983 election was boycotted by the PNP and in the next election...

The problem with the approach of the Government towards the wage negotiations with public sector workers is that it is being driven supposedly by logic, and supported by scholarly calculations. The issues identified have solutions rooted in...

Our islands and communities are at the forefront of the climate crisis. Year in, year out, we have borne witness to more frequent and destructive hurricanes, storms, and disasters. As islanders, we have become accustomed to the relative isolation...

I did the field research for my undergraduate long paper (a poverty study) in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Portland, and for my master’s thesis on rural (under)development I took up residence in the foothills of the John Crow Mountains in...

The Government’s planned acquisition of 200 electric buses for the capital’s state-owned transit company over the next two years is good for the environment and potentially, too, for the economy, especially if it proves a fillip to a large-scale...

LAST WEEK, Lascelve ‘Muggy’ Graham wrote an interesting article on violence in our high schools, highlighting the critical role that past students can play in instilling discipline and guiding our young people. And as much as I am loath to admit...

There are, this newspaper insists, substantial social and economic returns, often beyond what is immediately discernible, when the State does the right things – and gets them right. Unfortunately, in Jamaica governments seem to become so...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada was a special guest at the 44th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference held in The Bahamas in February. Again, his visit to this Heads session did not receive much coverage in the region except for his...

When the gangs of Gordon House readily agree on anything, like they do on the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), citizens should be wary. Taxpayers are very likely to be taken for a ride. The CDF, for example, allocates J$20 million apiece to...

Two Saturdays ago, I visited the recently reopened Devon House courtyard. Almost immediately, I accidentally walked into a black object sticking out of the ground. In a couple of seconds, I heard a voice behind me cry out, “Jesus!” It was a young...

Help me with this confusion. Jamaica is becoming the poster child of the International Monetary Fund? So much so that they are lending us nearly US$2 billion on the best terms imaginable. This is good. Excellent credit is a nation’s asset. STEPPIN...

Less than two months ago, the Jamaica Information Service quoted our prime minister, a former student of our Faculty of Social Sciences, Mona, as follows, “I do my research [of SOEs] ...and I see the president of El Salvador gets ten straight...