Commentary

Current COVID-19 realities have forced people to look for new ways to stay connected and alleviate boredom, with most aspects of life confined to home. More ‘nights-in’ and higher stress levels could increase the chances of overindulging in a...

The Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), formerly the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, and the European Union (EU) on Thursday, December 3 concluded negotiations for the post-Cotonou agreement. The...

I will begin by voicing your unspoken rebuttal: child marriage is not a sickness that significantly afflicts the Caribbean. And while I will concede that in its purest form, child marriage – a formal union involving a boy or girl under the age of...

Popular Caribbean comedian Majah Hype has been in the news a lot recently, and for the wrong reasons. His ex-girlfriend, Latisha Kirby, took to Instagram last week to speak out against the abuse she allegedly suffered at his hands. Following that,...

At one level, the imbroglio in the People’s National Party (PNP) over Norman Horne’s continued membership of the Senate, retarding the new leader’s effort to appoint his own man to the seat, is a failure of due diligence and appropriately...

Many of us are living in a fool’s paradise. We seem to assume that the COVID-19 pandemic is not really a threat to us. We do not appear to know that most of the population has not been tested for the virus. And many people who are infected do not...

Cuba’s international medical brigade has been nominated by several countries and many prominent personalities, such as Noam Chomsky, to receive the Noble Peace Prize for 2021 for providing international medical and humanitarian COVID-19 assistance...

As a long, consistent, and aggressive campaigner for independent oversight of Jamaica’s fiscal ecosystem, this newspaper welcomes Finance Minister Nigel Clarke’s tabling last week of a bill to establish a parliamentary commission, which is to...

The opposition People’s National Party has found itself in a pretty difficult situation because it has failed to recognise the time-honoured perspective that divided parties don’t normally win elections. The party has been racked recently by a...

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a shift in the landscape of stroke regarding age. Young people, that is persons under 50 years old, can have a stroke as the only symptom of COVID-19. Not cough or fever. Stroke is the third leading cause of...

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, it was clear that the pandemic was not only a health crisis but also an economic threat. Across the world, we saw countries impose unprecedented measures such as lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus, which...

Christmas belongs to Christians, who created the feast to celebrate the great mystery of the Incarnation. The idea that God could take on flesh and become human is unthinkable to the Jewish mind: God – pure spirit – was “wholly other” to fleshy...