Commentary

The revolt that has broken out across the United States over the apparent intention of the country’s Supreme Court to strike down Roe v Wade is a reminder that the Holness administration continues to tiptoe around the abortion question, two years...

Andrew Holness, looking at the man in the mirror, will contemplate that every prime minister, from Shearer in 1970 to Simpson Miller in 2015, fully supported the game-changing initiative for Jamaica to leave the Privy Council to subscribe to a...

The videos are disturbing. Soldiers kicking and hitting women; a wildly swinging assault rifle crashing through the defensive stance of a civilian. The gains made by the security forces in building relationships with those they were sent to serve...

Bipartisan support for keeping the identity of legal gun owners private has blunted the likelihood of public disclosure of this information. Rare as it is, government and opposition members of a joint select committee reviewing the Firearms Act...

(To Tickoya Joseph for sharing Stranger Than Fiction and The Gleaner Editor-in-Chief, Kaymar Jordan, for her ongoing help and support) I take after my father in my sense of humour. He was a truck driver and once told me about this ‘loader’ who...

There are countless stories of teachers inadvertently giving the word of encouragement that prevents a suicidal attempt or preaching the sermon that diverts yet another gang recruit. There are countless stories of teachers making out-of-pocket...

NELSON MANDELA, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Lee Kuan Yew, all great leaders who acted in the best interest of their people and countries. They were at the forefront, the vanguard of significant positive changes in their countries. They showed the...

IT IS exceedingly unlikely that a Jamaican government will, at any time in the foreseeable future, contemplate a voluntary closure of the island’s bauxite/alumina industry. So, depending on whose estimates of the island’s minimum reserves holds...

“My life is in danger! Come save my life.” – Jovenel Moise That was Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s urgent cry for help before he was viciously murdered, reportedly by 30 American-trained Colombian terrorists who had stormed his...

Last night, I dreamed Haemorrhoid was still living in Jamaica and watching us play dominoes. By now, regular readers know Ernest H. Flower (aka ‘Haemorrhoid’). I met him over 40 years ago when he was still an Articled Clerk (now a successful lawyer...

On the face of it, Jamaica has little to complain about on the matter of press freedom. Last year, Reporters Without Borders ranked us seventh among countries where journalists can go about their jobs without threats or intimidation, or overt...

First, How can we, as a nation, as individuals who love children, how can we know what we again have confirmed about early-childhood education yet continue, with false complacency, to avoid tending to the sector? In fact, last week’s revelations...