Commentary

By this time next week, we would have completed our observance of Emancipation and political Independence. The original events took place long ago, and are bittersweet as we look back, as neither turned out to be as liberating and redemptive as...

Last week’s appointment by the United Nations (UN) secretary general, António Guterres, of Jamaican Pamela Coke-Hamilton as executive director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) is a timely reminder of the ongoing process to select a new head...

ADHERENTS OF the logic of West Indian integration and its most sustainable manifestation, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as Dr Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St Vincent, says, owe Owen Arthur “an immense debt of gratitude”. This...

Last November 2019, almost 40 per cent, a plurality, of our people indicated that the most significant sign that Jamaica is on the right track with regard to fighting corruption is “seeing big fish successfully prosecuted and assets confiscated”....

The about-face by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck, and, by extension, the Holness administration, on giving arrest and prosecutorial powers to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is deeply disappointing. Like the outgoing INDECOM...

There is, it seems to this newspaper, little disagreement between the Government and the Opposition over proposed regulations for the appointment of boards for public bodies. A bit of flexibility from either side should, therefore, make their...

It is not uncommon for patients to present to my office seeking help for gynaecological symptoms, only for more important or life-threatening issues to be discovered. For example, earlier this year, a woman visited me because she had noticed a...

It is a matter for rejoicing that the plight of the homeless single mother of eight children, Crystal Clarke, has been relieved by the gift of a new house. The Gleaner’s editorial last Saturday is right. Charity is always to be celebrated. But...

I have taken note of the continued orchestrated and deliberate efforts by some actors in the political space in collaboration with sections of the media to, under the guise of fair comment, malign me in the public space. This is in an effort to...

There is a popular expression that says “pressure bus pipe”. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, as is reported in The Gleaner of July 23, has now publicly declared that he loves and admires Michael Manley. Holness having to backtrack on his earlier...

It seems as if another embattled minister of government may soon be joining his demoted colleagues in the office of the prime minister. Two Thursdays ago, Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness, angrily told a journalist who asked if...

The current state of affairs has certainly kept everyone busy washing their hands and trying to refrain from touching their faces, but has anyone checked on our friends who are nestled in the cool hills of the Cockpit Country? The Cockpit Country...