Commentary

The Gleaner editorial, ‘Declare NCDs an emergency’, of Tuesday, May 10, quoted Minister of Health and Wellness Christopher Tufton as saying that “Jamaicans are digging their graves with their food”. Actually, the phrase is ‘… digging your grave...

Jamaicans are observing Labour Day 2022 with a number of headlines fresh in mind. • “Public sector workers give seventy-two-hour strike notice” • “JCSA withdraws notice” • “More than 2,000 NWC workers strike over compensation” • “Jamaica’s...

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Thursday gone, mi had was fi git up out a mi bed go down a di construction site back a mi yard. Lickle after six a clock a mornin, one hell of a noise a come from down deh. Di said same ting gwaan Wednesday mornin. Wen mi go...

In this edition of Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and the Centre for Reparation Research (CRR), The University of the West Indies (The UWI), guest writer, Professor Rupert Lewis, places in the spotlight...

It is 1969, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), an institution built on the back of the workers’ movement, was in its seventh year of being in charge of the country. The Ethiopians, a grassroots Jamaican musical group, summed it up in their classic,...

When it comes to solving societal problems ,there is a growing sense that our politicians have failed to define the challenges and, therefore, have not been able to develop the requisite strategies to tackle the big problems that are shaping the...

Sadly, which Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams is unlikely to have noticed, it was not a high-minded welcome people gave this week to the renaming of Tower Street, in downtown Kingston, in honour of the Indian nationalist, politician and human-rights...

Jamaica recorded its first COVID-19 case in March 2020. More than two years and roughly 135,000 cases later, we are now going through what is supposedly the fifth wave of the pandemic. Unfortunately, it’s just more of the same: “Wear your mask!”, “...

Vin Blaine is right. Stepping down as coach of Jamaica’s women’s football team is, in the circumstances, “the right thing” to do. The only surprise in Mr Blaine’s decision is the time it took him to arrive at it – more than a fortnight after it...

TRADITIONALLY, MAY 9 is observed as Europe Day because it is the anniversary of the signing of the historic Schuman Declaration in 1950, which is the foundation of peaceful cooperation and good neighbourly relations in Europe. The cornerstone of...

Jamaican workers are fed up with wages that don’t worth ‘nutten’. The increasing labour unrests reflect the growing frustrations. Increased strikes are breaking out. This no doubt reveals a demand for not just more money, in my opinion, but an...

My alter ego, The Terrible Tout, wrote the following for online publication Public Opinion in January 2021. It could easily have been written last week when my dear friend, Chris Armond, passed away: I first met Christopher Joseph Armond in...