Commentary

The COVID-19 crisis may have done more for business efficiency than will ever be acknowledged. One of the upsides of this yearlong pandemic is that technology is playing a bigger role in everyone’s life – and all sectors, including business, public...

It is a significant oversight by all of us not to have noticed, until Jeanette Calder pointed it out this week, that the Parliament, for a decade and a half, has not debated any of the reports from either its public accounts or public...

This is in response to The Gleaner’s editorial, titled ‘Next move on abortion trail’, which seeks to jump-start the process to green lighting the shedding of the innocent blood of countless future Jamaicans in 2021. The editorial bases its pro-...

DONNA PARCHMENT Brown’s proposal that her mandate be widened, allowing for criminal referrals to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) for election offences, such as those relating to campaign financing, makes sense on the face of it. For,...

The men of the cloth and their surrogates, including those in the Love March Movement (who betray everything their name suggests), have awkwardly awakened from their deep slumber. It’s funny when you think how easily topics like buggery, gambling...

As this newspaper observed last week, Jamaica’s law-enforcement agencies are obviously in need of new strategies to stem the flow of illegal guns into the island. Either that or the national security minister, Horace Chang, should explain why...

People often ask me why I write so much about religion. The truth is that religion has always fascinated me, from the days when I was a Christian until now, years after I have walked away from the faith. In my youth, the fascination stemmed from me...

I have become anxious that we in Jamaica avoid the tragic polarisation of the United States (US) body politic in the inauguration week of President-elect Joe Biden. Actually, we have some reason for satisfaction. Never have we had to mount...

Anyone who has been following The Gleaner and other news outlets over the past few weeks may have come across the biggest clash since Vybz Kartel and Mavado. This back and forth sees noted doctors and public figures sparring over whether COVID-19...

Up to March last year, I used to go to Hellshire Beach practically every week. I thoroughly enjoyed the breeze out. And I’m sure my car also benefited from the highway run, however short. It escaped the confines of going at 30 miles per hour...

Last week’s court ruling that a police search of the Trinidad Express newspaper 10 months ago was unconstitutional was a victory not only for that newspaper, but for press freedom across the Caribbean. For while the case was about Trinidad and...

As they are preparing to exit the White House and the State Department on January 20, the outgoing Donald Trump administration has planted some explosives for the foreign policy of the government of Joseph Biden Jr. A grenade has already been...