Commentary

Now, more than ever, COVID-19 is proving to be more than a health crisis. Next of kin, loved ones, caregivers and clients need to arm themselves with important information in caring for the vulnerable. Here is what you need to know: CAREGIVER: An...

On February 20, 2019, my article in The Gleaner was titled ‘Needed: A CARICOM foreign trade strategy and agenda’. On September 2, 2020, I addressed ‘Jamaica’s trade performance: Turbulence ahead’. This article was relevant to CARICOM generally....

Having supported the overturning of tradition and backed last week’s election of Donald Trump’s controversial candidate for the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), it would be useful for the Jamaican Government to share the...

For the life of me, I cannot understand why Jamaica still has such high electricity tariffs. For decades, successive administrations have adopted the ‘right’ sector policies: privatisation, independent power producers (IPPs), strong regulation, and...

We do not know much how attention Jamaica’s health officials, including the minister, Christopher Tufton, have paid to the recent observations of Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer, or to the several concerns and suggestions of this newspaper, going...

I congratulate Minister Fayval Williams on her appointment to the all-important Ministry of Education and thank Minister Karl Samuda for his openness and fierce dedication during his short tenure. Because of COVID-19, this is the most difficult of...

Various coroner’s inquests are being conducted into the murderation of the PNP by the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on the day of September 3, 2020. This piece has a simple burden, really an expansion of my review of the JLP’s...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness must be congratulated for leading the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to a resounding victory over the People’s National Party (PNP) in the recently concluded general election. It is the first second-term victory by the JLP...

Jamaica lost two outstanding citizens recently, one a futurist entrepreneur and the other a trailblazer in education and politics. Both the Hon Tony Hart, OJ, and Jeanette Grant-Woodham, OD, served this nation well. It is unfortunate that in...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) professor emeritus of West Indian literature, Doctor Kenneth Ramchand, in the middle of writing an introduction to a collection of my present series of articles that started on March 30, 1993, in the Barbados...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness appears to feel that if he delivers on his election promises and keeps his ministers relatively honest, he’ll be able to cauterise the cynicism about politics in Jamaica and reverse the apathy that contributed to the...

THERE IS a matter which Dr Peter Phillips undertook to do something about if his party had won last week’s election, which should be followed through by Prime Minister Andrew Holness – implementing programmes and policies to make it easier for...