Commentary

Sectoral debates provide opportunities for Cabinet ministers to present their priorities for the upcoming year. This year’s contribution from Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Audley Shaw saw several noteworthy elements that have the...

There is comfort in the fact that criminal libel is no longer an offence, that a sitting auditor general cannot be removed on a whim, and that Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members who have been attempting to turn Parliament’s Public Accounts...

FINDINGS FROM research released this month underline why Jamaicans ought not to be hesitant about being inoculated against COVID-19, why our Government must be aggressive in seeking out supplies of the drug, and why those who have the vaccines...

Having followed the selection process, I join in congratulating Dr Carla Barnett on her unanimous appointment by the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at their meeting on May 11. Unanimous means that all 15 CARICOM heads...

As teenagers, we have had to conform and adapt to this thing that has caused our social skills to plummet and has wreaked havoc in other areas of our lives. The pandemic was a surprise and an interruption to the fast-paced schedule that was once...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) needs to reverse the incertitude in the region about how, and by whom, it is handling the Byron governance report calling for an overhaul of how the institution is managed and financed. That requires that it...

The obsolete and bad old days of cruel and immoral pharmaceutical experimentation on human beings is precisely why we benefit from stringent and intensive bioethical systems composed of highly trained individuals, groups and international...

Unhappily, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert has not distinguished herself as Speaker of the House. But she still has time to turn things around – if she starts now. She is only eight and a half months into the job and her tenure is for five years, unless...

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Everywhere yu turn, apartment building a go up inna Kingston. Di developer dem lik down one degeh-degeh house, an next ting, one hell of a apartment building put up pon di lickle spot. Look pon di corner a Munroe Rd an...

A 14-year-old cannot legally give anyone, including another child, access to her body. She cannot be in a ‘relationship’, so there is nothing to ‘discourage’. It’s a crime that used to be called carnal abuse but is defined as sex with a person...

Student-athletes returned to the National Stadium earlier this week to compete for honours in the 2021 ISSA/GraceKennedy Championships, which was cancelled in 2020 because of COVID-19. In some ways, the Government, in giving the green light for...

Elementary schools in the ‘50s started with a prayer and, the closer you were to the ‘exam’ group getting ready for your shot at the equivalent of the ‘Eleven Plus’, the longer were the prayers and the harder, and more often, the beatings from your...