Commentary

Andrew Holness, it would not have escaped anyone, made public accountability and honesty in government a central theme of his speech on being sworn in for his new term as prime minister (PM) after the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) decisive victory...

Voters tend to elect leaders they like and to whom they feel emotionally close. What voters think the party leaders are like is of critical importance in Jamaica, where personal politics hold sway. Dr Peter Phillips, in this sense, is like Edward...

The next phase in the Andrew Holness government’s work is about to begin. They performed well and were justly rewarded. But alongside were glaring systemic weaknesses in governance. Recovery will be slow, and coupled with this pandemic, could cause...

The Jamaica 2020 general election is now behind us. And speaking of behind, the People’s National Party (PNP) had theirs soundly whipped by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). It was not just a beating – it was a shellacking. The Jamaican public has...

Now that the COVID-19 tsunami is beginning, I see new attempts from the authorities in the faint hope of somewhat ameliorating the disaster. This was preventable but, my many months of efforts at trying to get a meaningful response against COVID-19...

If I did not study geography in second form, I would’ve looked at the political map of my country and thought that it was Greenland. Some of my dearest friends are totally stunned, resorting to analgesics and antacids. Worse, one diehard Comrade...

You really have to give up some applause to Andrew Holness and his team for the stunning victory they just engineered. How to adequately describe this monumental shellacking of the PNP? It’s not enough to say that the voters chose the JLP. More...

Peter Phillips’ ambition of becoming Jamaica’s prime minister may have crashed spectacularly with the People’s National Party (PNP) rout in Thursday’s election. But Dr Phillips’ acceptance of responsibility for the defeat, and his resignation as...

With their massive defeat at the polls, the People’s National Party (PNP) has found itself in a deep pit in its quest for renewal. The fact that two candidates who never campaigned a day in their constituencies before the election was called...

No – this is not about a gunman or a badman, it is about the system of coronavirus infection control at business places. I have been spouting that public health is in the driver’s seat steering us through living the COVID-19 life. It is ironic that...

There was little in the result of yesterday’s parliamentary election that was surprising. The People’s National Party (PNP) was mauled nearly as badly as the opinion polls had predicted. With a low voter turnout of 37.23 per cent, it surrendered 15...

At first, Jamaica’s COVID-19 strategy was to try to keep the virus out of the population, at which we did well. Our first confirmed COVID-19 case was reported on March 10, sixty-nine days after it was first reported in China. Five days later we had...