Commentary

The Andrew Holness administration, it appears, may be worthy of commendation for having heard the complaints of Jamaicans and pulled back from the damage it intended to permit to the environment in pursuit of economic development. But the devil, as...

Not vaccinating illegal migrants against the coronavirus would be a fatal mistake in every country. Unvaccinated persons pose a real threat to subduing COVID-19, and will delay the opening-up and recovery of economies. There are two issues related...

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom – Viktor Frankl In my youth – you, readers, may have had a similar experience – I thought that I...

Juliet Holness slew a giant, one made of straw, which she fashioned herself. In her joust, Mrs Holness cast herself as knight protector of the people’s interest, engaged in great acts of chivalry “to ensure the highest level of probity” in...

IT IS, to say the least, surprising, and raises questions about the judgement of who advised the action, that Prime Minister Andrew Holness did not anticipate the Integrity Commission’s (IC) rebuff of his invitation to provide cover for the...

What do you have to lose? “Take the damn vaccine.” Since the declaration of the coronavirus as a pandemic, people sprang into action to devise remedies for prevention and cure ... a case of ‘what doesn’t kill you make you stronger.’ This at a time...

Thanks to The Sunday Gleaner (May 22, 2021) for the story re the sea defence works on the Palisadoes tombolo, pointing out the all-too-common situation that the mitigation measures identified as necessary to avoid environmental damage have not been...

That’s how people in the yard describe the family relationship of the 15 year old youth in Westmoreland now charged with murder of his little boy cousin. His ‘responsibility’ availed him a loaded gun, now the favoured symbol of assertion and...

Although he spoke significantly on the matter during his recent parliamentary review of his portfolio, Daryl Vaz’s outline of plans for Jamaica’s electricity sector – including the Government’s intention to go the market for more renewable power...

Insofar as Carla Barnett’s appointment as secretary general (SG) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has excited attention in the region, it has been on two fronts. One is that she will be the first woman to hold that job in the community’s more...

Fimme Island a ‘boom’. Our island is the bomb. Oops! Americans, and I think also the British, use the expression. A bomb is an explosive device, sometimes dropped from the air but often planted with a trigger to cause lethal damage. Since our...

There is justification in continuing to explore pathways to a safer Jamaica because we believe the future of the nation hinges on how well citizens can be preserved to make their contribution to nation-building. News reports tell us that many...