Commentary

The Holness administration should disclose whether, as a minority partner, it approved the latest bout of asset switching in Noranda Bauxite, and if it attempted to leverage that authority to ensure the payment of debts owed to Jamaica by Noranda’s...

For the 57 days preceding July 19, with the exception of one single day, the number of daily COVID-19 recoveries in Jamaica exceeded the number of daily new infections, and as a result, the number of active cases was steadily brought down from over...

Last week in Parliament, Prime Minister Andrew Holness expressed his intention to ban corporal punishment (physical punishment intended to cause physical pain) of children in Jamaica. Unfortunately, punishing children by hitting them is a...

I was on the office premises getting some paperwork done when, at about 6:25 a.m., I heard Blam…Blam…BlamBlamBlamBlamBlamBlamBlam!! Nine explosions interrupted the ambient sound of light morning traffic along a nearby thoroughfare. I wondered if...

I have never been against the use of corporal punishment. I always believed that a few good licks would straighten out any wayward child, and for some that would be the only thing that worked. Yet I have never physically disciplined my son. Not...

This child is not known to me, but despite closing my tear-filled eyes, I see him and he looks like my sons and all the children I raised at his age. He is dead, and this resulted from a beating by his mother’s consort, loosely called a stepfather...

In 2015, David Cameron, the then United Kingdom (UK) prime minister, advised the Jamaican Parliament against requiring the UK to pay reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery. To do so, in his view, was to look back on history when it was more...

It is said, and not totally in jest, that the best way to stop someone from smoking in bed is to get a waterbed and fill it with gasoline. Any other approach might not only fail, but leave you feeling like an ash or make your partner behave like a...

There was a kerfuffle this week as outgoing British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad was blunt enough to state that while the legacy of slavery was abhorrent, “the issue of reparations will not prosper because we do not have a policy of paying to...

The media has an uncanny way of deploying its gatekeeping and agenda setting functions as it informs, educates, and entertains. Quite often, it is a mystery how journalists and their editors decide what is of value for print or broadcast (on radio...

THE GLEANER, in its editorials over time, has not usually taken time to categorically point out that there is no constitutional requirement for the holding of any referendum for Jamaica to delink from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council...

The pandemic has changed our world, changed our individual perspective on life and it has certainly reset our value system. From a Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (JMEA) perspective, navigating COVID-19 has been one of our toughest...