Commentary

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop. Why did the bike fall over? It was two tired. Why did the big-shot Tobagonian golfer bring two pairs of pants. In case he got a hole in one. Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pen? Because it...

It was my honour and privilege to be the guest speaker at the 284th Annual Maroon Celebration at the Scott’s Hall Maroon Town in St Mary. Held on Emancipation Day each year, representatives from all Jamaica’s Maroon communities come together to...

There are valid explanations. Which makes it all the more important that the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) provides Jamaicans with the reasons for the tortoise-like pace with which it is going about providing an official report of how much...

As a practising landscape architect in Jamaica since 1983, I am repeatedly amazed that the sprawling, new middle-income housing developments spreading throughout the county, if landscaped, are covered with small ornamental shrubs (usually...

Bruce Golding’s recent retrospection into the Christopher Coke extradition saga that cost him his premiership and political career has had an unexpected advantage. It has reminded us that there is unfinished business relating to the security...

As we reflect this week on the period of colonialism in the Anglo-Caribbean, I had cause to consider the region’s relationship with one European country which is rarely mentioned in the discussions about colonialism and slavery. That country, the...

On August 1, I did not work. It is a personal decision. I have settled it in the deep recesses of my soul that I will honour the fact that my enslaved foreparents were instrumental in forcing the British Parliament to effect their emancipation a...

Look, all of us are guilty of gaps, large and small, between our words and deeds. Virtuous life can be said to be a struggle to match aim and achievement. An electorate in a democracy is usually tolerant of these failings by their leaders, but...

The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), it seems, threw its staff under the bus over the CARIFTA Games record fiasco, but did not have the decency to either count or identify the bodies. We were not told who the victims were. If Alexander...

“Reigniting the Nation for Greatness” is the slogan for our 60th anniversary of Independence. Is this not demanding each of us to reignite ourselves … but for what? I suggest reigniting our promise and our pledge “to stand up for Justice,...

On the stroke of midnight the spirits of the ancestors will be jumping again and we will be celebrating the legal end of the enslavement of Africans in the British Empire. It is right in the middle of the British Commonwealth Games, an event that...

A case of the highly infectious polio disease, which was reported in the United States after a 10-year absence, is stirring concern among health officials that this awful disease, which was on the verge of extinction, could make a comeback. And, in...