Commentary

I feel the need to respond to Raushanah Muwwakkil’s Gleaner article on November 6, ‘Islam is a religion of peace’, in which he was responding to an article by my colleague, Dr Michael Abrahams, on November 2, titled ‘Is Islam a religion of peace...

While the world grapples with the outbreak of the coronavirus, renewable energy has been setting records in power generation, market share, and reliability. Travel restrictions call for self-isolation, and a shift towards working from home has led...

The People’s National Party (PNP) can be sanguine that it emerged from last week’s leadership contest relatively unscathed, or at least, without the open wounds left by recent leadership races, including Peter Bunting’s attempt 14 months ago to...

My first recollection of Mark Golding was in the 1980s. I was in medical school at The University of the West Indies at the time, and was among a group of young people hanging out at the house of a classmate who was a mutual friend. We were engaged...

There is something exceptionally cruel about purposely or negligently keeping children hungry. We may not mean to, but that is exactly what our society is doing right now. And it is compounded by the fact that tens of thousands of our...

There are myriad issues which have been revealed as suboptimal in this 2020 Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) exam crisis: the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) results,...

Detroit Pastor Rev Steve Bland says Black people have gone from “picking cotton to picking presidents”. We saw this with the election of President Barack Obama. Now the electoral might of Black power is once again on show as, with their backing,...

For the last several months, I’ve been tutoring a bright seven-year-old boy online. Our subject is language arts. He’s articulate and engaged and we’ve had lots of fun chatting about a whole range of issues such as politics, sports, science and...

For four days, we waited. The Count from Sesame Street would have had a field day. Finally, by the beginning of the weekend, we saw what looked like a slim victory as close as the ages of the two protagonists. What an election, and no jokes about...

A proposal to elevate Portmore from a municipality to Jamaica’s 15th parish is taking shape with the naming of a bipartisan committee of the House of Representatives to consider the motion put forward by Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie....

My Jamaican friend was complaining about his first visit to Trinidad where he was advised that, if he wanted to stay in the country, he had to become an expert on ‘All Fours’. He confessed that he thought they were referring to a sexual position...

At time of writing (Wednesday afternoon) it is still not known who will be the next president of the United States (US). The count is 248 Electoral College votes for Biden and 214 Electoral College votes for Trump; 270 is the target, with six...