Commentary

Democracy is at stake in the country that proclaims itself as the world’s bastion of democracy. That is the judgement of no less a person than the President of the United States of America (US), Joseph Biden Jr, who made this riveting statement on...

Reports out of our neighbour to the northeast are troubling! Former police officer Jimmy Chérizier, alias ‘Barbecue’, leader of the Delmas 6 gang based in downtown Port-au-Prince, has brought together nine powerful rival gangs into a federation of...

There is, this newspaper believes, a place in Jamaican schools for daily, organised spiritual reflection by students, including, in some circumstances, specific religious and/or denominational observances. However, as last week’s events at Oberlin...

Jamaica is not a real place. Or is it just that we don’t want it to be? How else do you explain our acceptance of the lack of transparency and accountability on display daily, as we continue to set a low bar for ourselves as a society? This...

It would be quite understandable that Johnny Grave, the Briton who is CEO of Cricket West Indies (CWI), may not be deeply invested in the political history and sociology of Caribbean cricket, or why images of the calypsonian, Lord Kitchener, and...

The Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, has been highlighting the need for Jamaica to increase exports to reduce its trade deficit and promote growth and development. This has become a perennial post-independence...

Whenever Gene Autry and I played against Dr S. Blank and Jimmy Hunchback, politics was never far away. It’s been a minute since this pair featured in these often arcane Tuesday columns. So, for late-comers, Blank was a UWI maintenance worker who...

With so many vehicles on roads which were never constructed for such capacity, we have again used scarce resources to back ourselves into a corner from which it will be difficult to escape. The albatross of the oil bill will get worse for everyone...

Errol Lebert seems an incurious man without a clear fix on his responsibilities as chief executive officer (CEO) of the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation (SEMC), the parish’s local government. Or, that was the case in 2018 when he approved more...

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Couple Saturday aback, mi go a di Louise Bennett-Coverley festival inna Gordon Town. Big up Miss Lou! Mi reach late chroo mi did ha fi go market first. Mi nuh know how di promoter dem did tink seh dem could a start festival...

What happened at Oberlin High? Was it obeah or hysteria? More importantly, why is the conversation switching to whether devotions should be held in schools? The latter is more confusing as it reeks of opportunism and subterfuge without any logical...

The event was designed to heap praises on members of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), but Minister of State for National Security, Zavia Mayne, also seized the opportunity to call out rogue warders. Speaking at the recent long service...