Commentary

What month is this? November? End of the hurricane season? Thanksgiving/Black Friday season? How about Men’s Health Month? Did you know that? When was prostate cancer awareness month? How about breast cancer awareness month? You knew that was...

In my commentary last week, ‘US Mid-term elections: a defining moment for the world’, I pointed out that no less a person than Joseph R. Biden Jr, the president of the United States of America, proclaimed that democracy is at stake in his country...

Recently, Prime Minister Andrew Holness suggested that after three times being in the post, he no longer has the pressure of winning elections just for the sake of being in the job. And liberated from the quest for political popularity, his focus...

Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson indicated that a total of 875 major crimes reported between 2019 and this year were committed by youngsters between the ages of 15 and 17 years. While this came as a shocker to...

The most important gathering of climate decision-makers is happening from November 7 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, as global delegations descend on the seaside town for the next set of climate policy negotiations. COP27, the United Nations’ climate...

There isn’t an easy way to revive Jamaica’s jaded, and nearly spent, neighbourhood watch movement. It won’t happen by haranguing young people about the lack of involvement in the community organisations. But, combined, the ideas of Charmaine...

“The war in Ukraine has exposed the profound risks of our fossil fuel addiction. Today’s crises cannot be an excuse for backsliding or green-washing. If anything, they are a reason for greater urgency, stronger action, and effective...

I just can’t shake off a joke told by English comedian Max ‘I wanna tell you a story’ Bygraves. Max died over ten years ago, but the story still stands up (no pun intended). It’s about a couple who, like Dusty Springfield, were wishing and hoping....

There is a plethora of viral videos lambasting Prime Minister Andrew Holness. They have a lot of reach and speak of Jamaica’s prime minister in extremely raw, rude, disrespectful, and sometimes sickeningly lewd terms. The videos are saying ‘Anju’...

The basis for the apparent conclusion that Jamaica’s parents are inclined to unburden their obligations on to schools and teachers is not entirely clear. But if the data shared last week by Kaysia Kerr, CEO of National Parenting Support Commission...

Last week’s mini controversy over whether the recipient of a social housing home was the nephew of an eastern St Thomas parish councillor was another example of how people’s miseries often become props in the advancement of Jamaica’s politics of...

Anger and frustration are the worst coaches when one is effecting public policy or on a public podium. Those of us in positions of influence have a responsibility to not make statements which will likely be taken out of context, or lead people...