Commentary

On the outside chance that it has slipped her attention, Pamela Monroe Ellis, the auditor general, should dispatch a team of auditors to the Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) to fully review the company’s operations, including how it goes about...

Global trade is connected to other critical economic and environmental issues thus requiring coordination and mainstreaming – what will happen at the WTO MC12 has wide implications. The credibility of the WTO, as the global trade body, is also at...

It is a shame that it will be more than seven years since Parliament passed the Disabilities Act and when it comes into force next February. It will take that long because, according to the labour and social security minister, Karl Samuda, that was...

Education is the most precious task of the nation. Comprehensive character development, high-quality academic and vocational outcomes constitute the only hope of creating a happy and prosperous society. We say we all believe this, spend a whole...

It is a government policy, as the health minister, Christopher Tufton, reiterated recently, that Jamaica’s health services, including mental health providers, do not discriminate on who they offer care. It ought not to matter if the person seeking...

Picture it. A bright Monday morning. Ruel Reid drives down Old Hope Road to resume his position as principal of Jamaica College (JC). As he turns into the gates, the placard-bearing mob gets louder. Distasteful, mixed with clever signs express the...

Some 24 years ago, I was in firm disagreement with our erudite lawyer and then prime minister, that the law was not a shackle. Indeed, my affinity is with Lord Denning, who stated that it was an ass. Doubtless, it is stubborn and often unwieldy,...

One of the looming national questions at the moment is how to treat with the unvaccinated among us. There is currently no Government vaccine mandate, so it’s left up to individuals to decide whether or not to take the jab. The vaccination rate is...

In Trinidad, unlike the other Caribbean countries, a “mopper” is not “a person employed to clean surfaces with an implement consisting of a bundle of thick loose strings or a sponge attached to a handle”. Lise Winer, in her Dictionary of English/...

I was more than a little disappointed at some of the comments lodged on the Gleaner’s website to my column last week, when I criticised the Holness Government for failing to consult with the owners of high schools before announcing the compulsory...

WHEN THE COVID wave first crashed on our shores last year, Jamaicans were justifiably panicked. It seems a decade ago when that small community in Bull Bay went under quarantine after the first COVID case was detected there, and soldiers and social...

The founder of Bedwardism, Alexander Bedward, lived from 1848 to 1930 in Kingston, Jamaica. Known to be a Baptist revivalist and very charismatic, he claimed to be the reincarnation of Christ and, like the prophet Elijah, summoned by the Lord. He...