Commentary

There should be a difference between national honours and long-service awards; the former should be related to remarkable personal achievement towards the public good, while the latter is related to longevity, perseverance, endurance and stability...

Last month’s attempt to move 1,000 pounds of cocaine through Ian Fleming Airport was so ambitious, so audacious, that it must have required a gargantuan effort to plan and organise. Major crimes like these aren’t thrown together overnight and...

Rovel Morris cannot but be literate and, therefore, competent at extracting information from verbal and written communication. If anyone were to conclude to the contrary, the error would be their own. Or Mr Morris, for whatever reason, was...

This newspaper supports in principle the request by Michael Lee-Chin’s Trident Estate that the Government reroute inland, onto Mr Lee-Chin’s property, around a half a kilometre of the North Coast Highway that runs adjacent to the estate, at Dolphin...

It should have been always that way – that Prime Minister Andrew Holness feels unconstrained to do what is right and best for Jamaica. That is his job and obligation. But now that the prime minister feels unfettered by narrow political ambition,...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth, recently launched the School Mental Health Literacy Programme, targeting students between the ages of 13 and 16. Speaking at the launch of the programme...

In 1969, Jamaica began celebrating Heroes Day. It is commemorated on the third Monday of every October to honour our national heroes. The first national hero was Marcus Garvey; however, the list presently includes Samuel Sharpe, George William...

Justice David Batts’ ruling that the security guards hired by Marksman Limited are not independent contractors, but employees for whom the company is obligated to pay statutory deductions – as it would for its normal staff – stands on its own merit...

The nation’s attention has been focused on recent events involving landownership and possession in Clifton, Portmore, and Pleasant Hill, Lluidas Vale, St Catherine. In the Clifton matter, following the prime minster’s announcement in Parliament...

As I write this column, my heart swells with the flood of Jamaican children and adults, bedecked in the black, gold and green and the ‘bandana’ fabric, in the iconic style of Jamaican ‘Royalty,’ Miss Lou. It might be surprising that despite our...

Traffic movement and its organisation tell a story about a society. When the traffic system is properly organised, more people have access to better jobs, educational opportunities, and facilities such as healthcare and leisure. A well-thought-out...

There is the story about the male mountain goat named ‘Cliff’ which committed suicide when the farmer played Frank Sinatra’s There will never be another Ewe. In those days, a goat was a “horned animal” and, when men and women were forced by their...