Commentary

Nigel Clarke, the finance minister, has offered a defence of the central bank’s secret contract for the production of new Jamaican currency notes that if it were a Papal Bull, would be tantamount to the Pope declaring belief in the Virgin Birth or...

So the administration of Jamaica’s football is in disarray. After their draw in Suriname, the Boyz, not for the first time, suffered considerable travel delays, inconvenience and embarrassment. It triggered an intemperate response. They sent a very...

This society is careening towards the precipice of irretrievable social disorder. Why did the Tivoli student dare to take on a teacher in that fracas? Where was he, and countless others, taught that such conduct could be appropriate? I think I know...

I met Paul in the late 1960s when he was courting my friend from high school, Kemorine Grant. She had come to Kingston from Manning’s School in Westmoreland to do sixth form at St Hugh’s and we found ourselves in class together. We hit it off...

Public officials are accountable for the expenditure of public funds. Period. This is a fundamental principle. For this reason, I have been concerned about impressions which may have formed from The Gleaner story, published a few weeks ago, on the...

It is a struggle encountered by business owners at every scale – employees who show no sense of ownership of the organisation where they earn a living. This is evident in, as we say in Jamaica, a duncya (sp) attitude about minor details easily...

Orlando Patterson and his team produced a tome on Jamaica’s education sector, which should be made compulsory reading for all those involved in education administration. While the vast majority of the findings are not new and could be traced...

It may be a Christopher Columbus statement that the Government of Jamaica has failed to bring down the incidence of crime and violence in Jamaica to acceptable levels. It would be truthful to say this of all governments since Independence – and...

Many of the manufacturers of small and medium-sized electronic devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, will whinge and complain about the European Union’s (EU) mandate that they standardise the USB charging ports on their products. They will...

Most of us, unless we are direct beneficiaries of the chaos around us, should be troubled about the state of our nation. Our Government tells us our economy is solid, national reserves are the largest since the 1970s, debt to GDP ratio is low (...

It is doubtful that even if burdened with a significant handicap, any other Jamaican institution is as incompetently managed as the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF). Indeed, the ineptitude of the Federation’s bosses is so egregious that they are...

June is a month of high-profile international meetings. The Summit of the Americas started on Monday in Los Angeles and, by now, we will know which heads are attending and how the meeting is progressing. Also happening this week, from June 7, in...