Commentary

It might look like hand sanitiser, but it’s not. Not even a full panel of judges is as serious as times are now. This is my first real pandemic but my grandmother recalls tales of cholera in the 1850s, which were recounted to her as a child. She...

Earlier this week, out of two Caribbean countries came statements with more holes in them than Swiss cheese. The first, from Jamaicans.com, claims that “Jamaican Culture Is the Most Popular in the World”. The second is from a Trinidad technocrat-...

THE EDITOR, Madam: Word that the first case of COVID-19 has been identified in Jamaica set off panic among residents. There are signs that despite the yeoman effort by the Ministry of Health to educate residents, many have not been listening or...

It is approaching nearly two weeks now since the disappearance of 22-year-old visually impaired University of the West Indies, UWI student Jasmine Dean. It is reported that Dean had been waiting on a bus at the University’s Irvine Hall gate from...

Now that Jamaica has confirmed its first case of COVID-19, it would be prudent for the Government and the political Opposition to begin discussion on the constitutional contingencies for the postponement of the next general election, should that be...

Dear Jasmine: I’m sorry we didn’t protect you enough. We live in a country where a lot of basic needs for citizens are not considered, let alone that of those with special needs. I hope you can forgive us, but if you can’t, I understand. As a...

It is accepted in the Westminster political system, and the variations thereof, that political parties and their leaders, when it is in their power to so determine, time elections to periods they believe to be to their advantage. It is in that...

Prostitution is still condemned by Jamaican law, to the chagrin of liberals. These detractors assert that the law should refrain from legislating morality. But closer inspection reveals that laws do indeed legislate morality, but they cannot make...

The call by policy researcher Joanna Callen for legislation to require persons to justify their suspicious wealth, or face the possibility of its confiscation, has echoes of Howard Mitchell’s suggestion a year ago that Jamaica borrow from a British...

On October 26, 2019, when an article came out about a baby boy found in a pit latrine in St Mary, the collective reaction of the country was shock and outrage. However, this reaction did not deter another mother from subjecting her newborn to the...

I was recently asked to go to the Supreme Court in an attempt at securing bail for a patient of mine, who was being remanded in custody for allegedly committing a non-violent crime. Several reasons why the accused should be granted bail were put...