Commentary

That a “comprehensive review “ of the security of all government websites is under way to ensure compliance with “international standards and best practices” is a welcome development. However, the implication that this action may have been...

A lot of people are sick and tired of virtual entertainment. They want to party in the flesh. And that’s precisely what they’re doing. They don’t give a damn about the consequences of their actions. They’re living in the moment and to hell with...

As guardians of our African retentions, the descendants of the escaped former slaves, who bravely fought the British to a standstill, the Jamaican Maroon communities have inspired both pride and bitterness, with a significant minority of Jamaicans...

We elect politicians to lead, and leadership is especially critical during times of crisis. The coronavirus is a public health crisis which has triggered an economic one, and it requires transformational leadership to turn things around. This...

If United States President Joe Biden eases the trade embargo against Cuba, one benefit to developing countries, including the Caribbean, could be greater access to coronavirus vaccines at an affordable price. Cuban scientists have been working on...

The claims of a second data breach of JamCOVID is not only worrisome about the safeguards of personal data of travellers; it also highlights a significant issue of data security, governance and trust that need to seriously be in place, no matter...

No one wants, or expects, any prison built in Jamaica to be a country club. But neither are we looking for replications of Devil’s Island or Alcatraz. Which is why we look forward to further discussions by Horace Chang, the national security...

For a long time, Jamaica faced significant fiscal challenges, with high levels of unsustainable debt. These challenges saw us running fiscal deficits over many years, with Jamaica’s debt levels soaring to as high as 147 per cent of Jamaica’s gross...

There is a maxim that we often reach for in the face of obduracy by governments. It is that what’s worse than formulating bad policy, is implementing them. We would add, for the specific circumstances, persisting with the obvious mistake. In the...

Social media has really been changing us. And not necessarily for the better. During the later stages of high school, I had a friend who I was at first very fond of. We had good conversations at school and he was usually pretty friendly. After a...

Lloyd Distant’s revelation, a week ago, that the Government won’t meet its target of recruiting 1,000 new police officers by the end of March is in itself a blotch on the consensus agreement on crime that the Holness administration signed with the...

We have seen in this past week just how quickly the COVID-19 pandemic can change course. Within the last few days, dramatically and rapidly increasing numbers of confirmed cases have had an impact on the healthcare system, with COVID-19 hospital...