Commentary

What’s surprising about the national angst that erupted last week over the Early Childhood Commission’s (ECC) report of low compliance with the certification requirements for daycare centres and kindergartens is that people, including many who...

I have been off social media for a while now. For the few who noticed, I paused writing as well. I needed to refocus and recharge at a watershed moment in my life. Change is hard. Life is hard. Obviously, I am back at scribbling for the...

Garbage is a problem as old as human civilisation has existed. The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is the entity charged with the responsibility of collecting and disposing of solid waste from residential and commercial sources in...

Largely unreported by the media in the Caribbean and making no headlines, a very serious blow was delivered to diplomacy and international relations on April 24. The government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua sent police to enter the diplomatic...

I am sure many Jamaicans were surprised to hear that the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has determined that Jamaica’s unemployment rate in January 2022 fell to 6.2 per cent – the lowest in many years. In October 2020, for example, it...

HERE WE are again, talking about water, or rather, the lack thereof. Typically, we hold this conversation annually, as we watch precipitation dip and dryness set in all over the country. It has been going on for many years, and dire predictions of...

THE TRANSATLANTIC Slave Trade and racism resulted in a number of disadvantages, setbacks, hurdles, areas of underdevelopment for dark skinned (black) peoples. These are particularly pronounced in education, housing and land ownership, health, among...

The reason for Jamaica’s developmental failures is not only that our policymakers are in the habit of making a hash of the big issues. They are just as likely to get the little things wrong, or do not recognise the importance of doing them right....

The brain is the control centre of the body. Most of our voluntary and involuntary functions are controlled by this complex organ. Neuronal connections and brain chemistry affect our personalities, moods, behaviour and the ways our bodies perform....

As this newspaper reminded on Sunday, it is not only private citizens who are increasingly disquieted by the habit of developers, and others, of trespassing on the restrictive covenant laws then seeking to rectify their breaches either via...

“What Parliament good fah?” asked the handcart man pushing his scrap metal limousine up Duke Street one day, manoeuvring past the armada of throttling ministerial chariots. If those of us privileged to represent the public were to show less...

A lot of Jamaicans have been nyamming up themselves on social media because the American group SOJA won the Grammy earlier this month for ‘Best Reggae Album’. The title of the top-rated album is Beauty in the Silence. Angry Jamaicans should listen...