Commentary

The year 1991 will forever be remembered as one of the greatest years of my life. So many memories. Good memories. Bad memories. Enduring memories. I remember them all. But perhaps no memory is as resilient as those final moments of that year’s...

By the mid-20th century, 10 to 15 million people were infected with smallpox annually, and more than two million died. Determined to eradicate the disease, the WHO (World Health Organization) launched a global vaccination campaign in 1967. After...

Do Jamaican governments want to address violent crime? The Rio de Janeiro-headquartered Igarapé Institute is a non-profit, independent think-and-do tank focused on public, climate and digital security’s consequences for democracy. It operates in 20...

Several of my patients and female friends have told me they have noticed a disruption of their menstrual cycles after being vaccinated for COVID-19. Colleagues of mine have also been receiving similar reports. The symptoms include periods returning...

Jamaica’s move for a coordinated Caribbean response to Britain’s discriminatory approach in deciding which countries’ citizens are properly vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the United Kingdom (UK), continues to be endorsed by this newspaper....

That is the essence of what has been happening at Nutrition Products Company (NPL), the government agency which is tasked to produce some of the food items which at least a half of our schoolchildren desperately need, if their lives are not to be...

Like the rest of the country, I welcome the incoming Chief of Defence Staff, Commodore Antonette Wemyss Gorman. Like Rear Admirals Peter Brady and Hardley Lewin, she comes in from the Coast Guard arm of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), and based on...

A favourite topic of the media is the rise of extremism. This usually refers to far right or religious extremism. Anti-immigration, overtones of racism, radical conservatism, and religious fundamentalism are often packaged together for supporters...

The Jamaica Labour Party won the 2020 general election with only 408,376 votes of the 1,913,410 registered voters, which means they had the support of only 21 per cent of the electorate, a relatively small minority. I do not agree with the many...

If Mark Golding is embracing good, though unsolicited, advice he won’t engage in undue hand-wringing over the latest opinion polls confirming his and his party’s loss of ground among Jamaican voters. There is no need for spin. That he couldn’t...

Jamaica’s decision to raise with its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) partners what the foreign affairs minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, casts as Britain’s non-transparent system for determining which COVID-19-vaccinated people are let into the...