Commentary

Until this week, I believed there was no such thing as a bad pun. Then, I found a message from the Jacquie Lawson card company that made me see green, red, and various other colours, shapes, and sizes. It said, “One of the unexpected side effects...

I read Dr Alfred Dawes’ article in the Sunday Gleaner, June 7, 2020 , ‘Why I doth not protest too much’, and I am responding as a protester standing in solidarity with our black families in America against systemic racism. On the contrary, ‘I was...

This newspaper, it bears repeating, insists on Israel’s right to exist and to live in peace within secure borders – so long as those borders are the ones that prevailed prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, as recognised by international law and...

Monday June 15, 2020, was the 150th anniversary of the disestablishment of the Church of England in Jamaica. It is now known as the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The disestablishment came at the expiration of the Clergy Law that was...

With its conclusion delayed from 2019, the post-Cotonou negotiations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU) was scheduled to conclude this March and reviewed at a meeting of the ACP Council....

Law-abiding Jamaicans, who are the vast majority of us, are outraged at the slaying of the two policemen and wounding of two others, including a senior officer, during last week’s incident at Horizon Park, St Catherine. But this anger must not...

The Coalition Team Unity (TU) government, led by Dr Timothy Harris, retained its hold on the government in St Kitts and Nevis with a resounding 9-2 victory in elections held on June 5. It increased its seat count from seven, which it won in the...

I am an obstetrician and gynaecologist. Many people are fascinated by my profession. Some men say they would love my job. Others say they would not want to “work where other men play”. I find that when people hear the word ‘gynaecologist’, there is...

The surreal and unbelievably cruel murder of African American George Floyd by a Caucasian cop will be indelibly etched in history. It will go down in the annals of time as the callously brutal event that became the fulcrum for a renaissance of...

Following my Sectoral Budget presentation on June 2, 2020, I am submitting this update with respect to developments made within the transport sector. Since taking office in April 2018 as the minister of transport and mining, I have proposed reform...

My commentary was interrupted on Friday morning by a hail of bullets that claimed the lives of and injured Jamaican police officers as they went in pursuit of a suspect … And their lives mattered. As we join a global movement catalysed by the...

What we are witnessing in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)-controlled St James Municipal Corporation is the barefaced abuse of power. It is deeply concerning that the corporation voted on Thursday to boot two People’s National Party (PNP) councillors...