Commentary

We hope that Robert Morgan won’t suffer the misapprehension of several of his recent predecessors that his primary role as de facto information minister is to be the senior public relations officer to the Government and press secretary to the prime...

Does crime and violence mitigation require more zones of special operations/states of emergency (ZOSO/SOE) or creative housing situations for the poor? Across Jamaica are numerous communities marginalised by poverty of basic infrastructure systems...

So, the same set of people who are saying that Prime Minister Andrew Holness is not to be taken at his word are also jumping on a past address to the Accompong Maroons, when he used the word sovereign to describe their ancestors. In any event, the...

In retrospect, Pearnel Charles Jr was destined to fail, or have very few accomplishments as the minister for housing, urban renewal, the environment and climate change. At that ministry, he largely presided over a facade. All the critical agencies...

My wife Indranie is an animal magnet and claims this is why I was attracted to her. On the other hand, and given that we have been together for over 25 years, that clearly makes her an animal lover of the highest class and longest standing....

After gutting the Ministry of Environment in 2020 by removing from it the government agency that regulated the health of the natural environment, this week with the Cabinet adjustments Prime Minister Andrew Holness has abolished that ministry...

FOR A public underwhelmed by, and still attempting to make sense of, Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ reshaping of his Cabinet, there may be still something to be salvaged from the exercise. Mr Holness should be persuaded to give detailed...

IT IS great to start the year with the latest instalment of the Jamaican pantomime starring a favourite reoccurring character, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). The latest play, ‘Digging for Fool’s Gold?’, has been met with mixed...

This newspaper is at one with Prime Minister Andrew Holness about the inviolability of the Jamaican State, and shares his concerns about those leaders of Maroon communities who claim sovereignty of their territories. Indeed, as was made plain six...

So, we are firmly into 2022. Btw, that’s ‘Twenty-twenty-two’, NOT ‘Two thousand and twenty-two’ as many have foisted upon an unsuspecting public since Nineteen-ninety-nine became Twenty-hundred (or Two thousand, if you must). But 2001 was...

After more than three years of discussions and, we expect, technical analysis, it was announced last month that the Government and the Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL) had signed an agreement for CCCL to utilise tyres from the Riverton City...

The year 2022 began with several bangs. There were illegal gun salutes that ended up causing harm. The Commissioner of Police specifically warned against them, but his warnings went unheeded. Some years ago, I had a patient who was exiting her home...