Commentary

We are not against the Greater Bernard Lodge master plan serving as a model for development elsewhere in Jamaica, only not at Bernard Lodge, on the plains of St Catherine. Or rather, that part of the plan that calls for planting nearly four square...

Senator Don Wehby is a humane business leader, inspired, I believe, by Christian social principles. He says we should not borrow ourselves out of the crisis aggravated, but not caused, by the pandemic. Instead, we should grow the economy. Of course...

Every Jamaican taximan who overtakes and then immediately stops to pick up passengers must now be praying we forget their obnoxious driving and support them in their impending battle with Uber. The entry of the ride-share platform in the local...

‘High Tension’ headlined The Gleaner on June 25, which aptly described the environment of The Gleaner Editors’ Forum ‘Building Issues’ where myself and two other citizens affirmed that we endorse developments including high-rise construction. The...

The proposal by the US government to establish a global minimum corporate tax is not a remote matter from the lives of people in the Caribbean. It is a real issue with deep implications for Caribbean economies, and, indeed, for the capacity of...

Urban development is at a heady pace, especially in Kingston and St Andrew, to accommodate a burgeoning number of Jamaicans who make a beeline to the capital for a multitude of reasons – primarily in search of jobs, or for education. The urban...

Speaking at a public function last Tuesday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness engaged in political doublespeak as he sought to defend his now-stained environmental record. Listen to him; I transcribed his words myself from the audio: “We get...

The House of Representatives approved two bills last year, the Registration of Titles Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2020 (SPA) and the Registration of Titles (Amendment) Act, 2020 (RTA). These were...

DR HORACE Chang, the national security minister, has a germ of a point about what is necessary to fundamentally address gang violence in central Kingston, and, for that matter, the development issues of large swathes of the downtown section of the...

Justice is supposed to be blind and even. But no one would mind if Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has a peek, tips the scales a bit, and causes the Supreme Court to urgently produce the transcripts from the case in which Justice Bertram Morrison ruled...

I am writing with reference to The Gleaner article written by Deborah Chen, The Heart Foundation of Jamaica executive director, on June 15 titled ‘Is evidence being ignored in front-of-package labelling’. I wish to express my serious concern about...

Having been starved of organised competitive football for 14 months, Jamaica’s soccer fans will expect, even relish, the prospect of this weekend’s restart of the National Premier League even though matches will be played without spectators and the...