Commentary

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data from California (the most populated state in the United States) and New York concerning infection and hospitalisation rates during the Delta surge last year. The study included...

Nigel is right. Indeed, for the banks to raise fees at this time is worse than tone deafness. It is a contempt against every citizen, given the ongoing skimming of people’s money by institutions which charge you for every transaction with your own...

I’ve written that real power comes only from inner strength and that true inner strength only comes from unity. Anything contrary you may have been taught is a lie. That feeling of stubborn determination that comes from “going it alone” isn’t inner...

As a non-consumer of poultry and its products, it really is not my personal fight. However, no part of the word ‘cockroach’ describes me. Chicken is singly the most common source of animal protein the average Jamaican consumes, and indeed, we...

The most curious bit in the latest instalment of Jamaica’s episodic debate of banking fees is the public whingeing by Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his finance minister, Nigel Clarke, over the decision by the institutions to raise their rates....

The second consecutive general election in Barbados, on January 19, at which Mia Mottley’s Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won all 30 seats in the House of Representatives, was hailed as historic. It certainly was for Barbados, but not for the English-...

I have never really understood why political parties and governments act in the interest of big business rather than in the interest of the consuming public; after all, consumers are voters who elect governments, and to whom parties and governments...

PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness could hardly have made a better choice than his appointment this week of Professor Alvin Wint as chairman of HEART/NSTA Trust. For not only is there much clean-up to do at HEART, that project now coincides with a...

IT FINALLY got me. At least I think so. After nearly two years of dodging the COVID bullet, the pandemic gods finally backed me into a corner, fixed their sights on my position and unloaded a full barrage of the Omicron variant right on top of my...

HAVING METAPHORICALLY flung his hands in the air and suggested that it is every man for himself and devil take the hindmost, Prime Minister Andrew Holness should also clarify whether his “argument done” remark also means an end to any...

“As I watch the unfolding crisis in the USA, I see a political and social landscape flashing with warning signals … .“ Thomas Homer Dixon, Canadian political scientist, in the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper, January 2, 2022 . “Democracy (in...

ONCE AGAIN, our lives are being disrupted by a COVID-19 wave, the fourth since this wretched pandemic began. This surge is being driven by the Omicron variant, the most transmissible to have evolved so far, with local positivity rates climbing...