Commentary

The devastating losses in working hours caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have brought a “massive” drop in labour income for workers around the world – International Labour Organization’s (ILO) latest assessment of the effects of the pandemic on the...

Over the past months, I have written a series of articles on CARICOM’s trade with its trading partners – USA, Canada, United Kingdom (UK), European Union (EU), Latin America and Africa. I had also looked previously at trade discussions within the...

Last week’s comprehensive strike-down by the Supreme Court of the constitutional basis upon which the Holness administration employed a string of states of public emergencies will now require the Government to undertake a serious review of its...

The contribution of the late United States (US) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the upliftment of women globally, including here in Jamaica, must never be underestimated, much less forgotten. From very humble beginnings, Ginsburg, who...

My symptoms began with an itchy throat and a dry cough early one morning. I thought that I was having a post-nasal drainage because the cough was not frequent or debilitating. By mid-afternoon I was feeling lousy. I was still coughing and had minor...

Almost all of us are frightened, on some level, by the raging pandemic that has hit us. For those of us who made the very challenging and sometimes unpopular decision to send our children off to college, the related concerns are many, especially...

Mia Mottley’s commitment to within 14 months repatriate Barbados’ greatest symbol of sovereignty, by removing Queen Elizabeth as the eastern Caribbean island’s head of state, will hopefully prove a catalyst for faster action on the matter in...

Americans go to the polls on November 3, 2020, with President Donald Trump up for re-election. He will face the Democratic Party contender, Senator Joe Biden. Public opinion polls suggest that Biden is odds-on favourite to win this hotly contested...

Scores of small-business operators, minimum-wage earners, and others who were locked out of the formal banking system, because they could not meet eligibility requirements, can now breathe a sigh of relief as banks are beginning to relax some of...

Ultrasphinx, the time traveller from the 80th century, had captured Lois Lane, and to get her out of a state of suspended animation, Superman had to answer what is, historically, the unanswerable question, or paradox of all paradoxes: What happens...

What do the 4Ps (politics, protests, parties and people) have in common? Crowds! Coronavirus loves people, it gets it energy from and romps among them at will. No amount of education, moral suasion and even applying the law seem able to deter the...

PRESIDENT DONALD Trump declared “the dawn of a new Middle East” in Washington on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain signed public agreements with Israel for the first time. Not “peace agreements”, as Trump claimed, since neither...