Commentary

I am having that feeling of deja vu when I see that it is another mango season and the fruit is once again rotting in our backyards. There is still another way for Jamaica to earn foreign exchange from mangoes. This way is to process and export...

Today’s world is in turmoil. In every corner there is conflict with no end in sight. Terrorism, among others, poses serious concerns.The global war on terrorism seems to have taken a back seat.The world now sees a terrorist organisation, the...

Panka-Panka hustling is a daily fact of life for poor people. I can remember back in the 1960s when my mother, Mrs Linda, was a dressmaker, midwife, and sometimes domestic worker; she would make clothes to sell on Innswood, Monymusk and Gray’s Inn...

Keep your windows boarded, doors shut, and children safe. What’s up you ask? Hurricane coming? No, worse. It’s an Old Ball and Chain on the warpath! Old BC: None of you listen to Old Grey Balls. He’s hopeless. I’m sick and tired of the lot of...

Horace Chang, the national security minister, in an article in the newspaper on Sunday, highlighted a list of technologies the Holness administration has afforded the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to strengthen its ability to respond to the...

Yes, progress. At least that’s a process. Forget about prosperity. Neither this Government nor any other operating on the same premises of political economy can deliver prosperity to the mass of the Jamaican people. Watch how in the next month or...

The good news is that, finally, we can discern the outlines of a systematic plan for implementing the recommendations of the Orlando Patterson Commission on transforming education in Jamaica. It has gone beyond Christopher Stokes’ appointment as...

Once upon a time, pharmacies used to be specialist stores. Their only business was dispensing medicine. In 1920, Johnson...

“Twenty-three Ukrainian refugees killed during border crossing”. That’s not true, but it got your attention though. Had the title been “Twenty-three African refugees killed” it would have been easier to scroll on or turn the page. You’re not racist...

What came first? The chicken or the eggs? Earlier this week, having got up at about 4 a.m., I decided to cook one of the favourite dishes of my wife, Indranie. I fried four eggs in onion, garlic and chive with a little hot pepper. It is what I...

Imagine for a minute… You are homeless and you ‘live’ in New Kingston gully. You have nowhere to bathe, brush your teeth or relieve yourself – not that the problem ends there, since you don’t have access to soap, toothpaste or other basic...

We are glad that the chairman of the Integrity Commission (IC) and a former president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Seymour Panton, has again reminded Parliament of the folly of maintaining the gag clause in the Integrity Commission Act and is...