Commentary

In the normal scheme of things, Michael Lee-Chin, like any other entrepreneur, should be entitled to deploy his assets as he sees fit to produce the maximum return. Yet, this newspaper is uneasy not so much by the reported intention of Mr Lee-Chin...

I recall my mother relating her early days as an educator. She started out teaching at a primary school. She spoke of the day when income tax was deducted from their pay for the first time. The bewildered and teary-eyed teachers ran to the...

The Jamaican Parliament is right now deliberating, in a joint select committee, comprehensive tobacco control laws for our country. We are in the final stages of that process. Once enacted, these laws will protect Jamaicans from the harmful and...

He disarms me with the compliment that I am the only one who says his name correctly. Properly pronounced, it is ‘Froswaa Sein Joost’. Then as I reel from the remark, he drops the question, generally based on the news. Although we met as UWI...

The G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport is truly a Jamaican success story. At age 42, this institution is poised to take on an even greater role in imparting technical and tactical knowledge, which are necessary ingredients in...

When the West Indies Federation failed, Guyana took a shot at being the first country to become independent, but this was shot down by the British. Of the two countries anxiously waiting in the wings, Jamaica was the first and quickly jumped the...

Jamaica has had a huge issue with brain drain, for many years, because every year, thousands, including many tertiary graduates, leave the country for greener pastures overseas. Myriad reasons, not limited to one’s pay, exist to explain why so many...

When the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) next reports on the island’s progress towards its Vision 2030 goals, it must do more than recite bland percentages of what has been achieved and what is yet to be done. Instead, the agency should...

Guyana’s economic fortunes have, in the last two or so years, taken off in no uncertain terms as a result of the discovery of fossil fuels in economic quantities. It joins Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago as the major countries in the Caribbean...

The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is concerned with the lack of updates from the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) following the toxic discharge from Windalco’s Effluent Holding Pond (EHP) in Ewarton, St Catherine, on July 30, 2022...

It’s time to revisit Apocrypha, our favourite Fantasyland beyond the clouds, where all politicians are friends and retired MP Oma D’unn solves political dilemmas by parable. The political scene was heating up as elections were expected soon....

Exactly 100 years ago, the Black Star Line ceased sailing. The shipping venture was founded by Marcus Garvey to link Africa with its diaspora in the Americas. It was part of a wider vision of liberating peoples of African descent around the world...