Commentary

I had not seen one of my patients for way over a decade. I knew her parents long before she was conceived. I saw her through her formative years, but then she fell off my radar. When I saw her for the first in a very long time, I had to catch up on...

The cynicism of more than half the Jamaican citizenry about the national enterprise is the ­greatest threat to democracy. The country needs a big idea, a compelling purpose, around which personal ­endeavour and ­community energy can coalesce....

I pick up The Gleaner this morning and read: ‘Soldier shoots cop in reported love triangle in Portmore’. As I write, the story is getting very wide circulation on social media, a timely reminder to those of us apt to concentrate on by-elections and...

The elected member of parliament (MP) used his privileged position to shoot a verbal spear gun in the direction of his colleague in the House. Either the target ducked or the aim of the shooter was not as straight as he would have wanted but the...

Seven years ago, when Argentinian Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope, we, like millions around the world, looked forward to a significant transformation of the Roman Catholic Church. That is to say, we expected he would have nudged it into the 21st...

Swift, precise action is now needed to reduce the level of violence in our schools. In the last few weeks, teacher- student conflicts appear to have escalated in many of our institutions of learning. It could be that the graphic images now...

We welcome the apparent advance in negotiations between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the region’s telecoms on a new regime for call and data roaming in the Caribbean, but are holding our applause until there are further and better...

Reparation is an ancient theological concept whereby persons who have committed sins, or who have benefited from the sins of others, must perform some concrete act to expiate their own sin or the sins of others. The need to make reparation for...

With the Holness administration making the declaration of states of public emergencies the centrepiece of its crime-fighting strategy, we would be surprised if the issue of ‘good faith’ certificates, given to the soldiers charged for Keith Clarke...

Last year, Jamaica-born Orlando Patterson, Harvard professor and noted Caribbean intellectual, gave a lecture at the University of the West Indies, based on his recent book, The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament....

Among Jamaica’s more impressive developments in public infrastructure in recent decades is the expansion of its network of highways and major roads. There is, for instance, the tolled east-west segment, between Portmore, St Catherine, and May Pen,...

CARICOM Heads of Government will be concluding their Intersessional Meeting in Barbados today. This meeting is chaired by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who has responsibility for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in the quasi-Cabinet....