Commentary

It seems that in Jamaica, road safety is more about motorists rather than all road users, including pedestrians, who make up the majority of road users. We are too lax when it comes to engendering greater safety on the roads for those who commute...

In my recent column ‘Read the Bible Literarily, not LITERALLY’, printed in both the Jamaica Observer and the Jamaica Gleaner on Tuesday, February 4, I stressed the need to recognise various literary features of the kinds of literature in the Bible...

Strong, value-laden institutions are crucial for building and maintaining a culture of worth. Alexis de Toqueville, the French journalist who surveyed the strength of democracy in the young republic of the United States, correctly assessed its...

Lots of people, like this newspaper, will be excited by the idea of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) adding electric buses to its fleet, as the Government has promised for the new fiscal year. Forty-five are to be acquired, Governor General...

“And you shall know the [bitta] truth! And the [bitta] truth shall set you free!” The Book of John 8:32 The Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has the fastest-growing economy in the world today, with an average growth rate of 9.5 per cent...

It was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, and Commander Will Riker, first officer of the USS Enterprise, was on a Klingon ‘Bird of Prey’ ship. For the non ‘Trekkies’, the Klingons are a fictional race of humanoids, who are very much like...

The Yoruba in Nigeria call it ‘Agbalumo’, Hausas know it as ‘chiwo’ and to the Igbo it is ‘udara’. Throughout Africa they boast about its many health benefits. One writer claims it can do everything, including preventing gum diseases, minimising...

Whether it was of its own volition, or nudged by the Holness administration, the Integrity Commission’s appointment of Greg Christie to be its executive director was an inspired move. At the same time, no one should expect that, in his new position...

I am sure almost all of us who live in Jamaica have to go through two, three or four police/military checkpoints as we go about our daily business. What do the authorities hope to achieve by these operations? Do the young boys and girls who staff...

Economist Mark Ricketts’ outline (Sunday, February 9) of Jamaica’s economic scene, both positive gains and persistent landmines, appears to be a fair one. In short, everyone agrees that the solution to the problems has escaped us so far. No one,...

The rediscovery of the manuscript a decade ago, and Penguin Classics’ publication this week of Claude McKay’s novel, Romance in Marseille, is a big deal in literary America. It should be in Jamaica, too. Perhaps the attention on McKay can be used...

An article in The Sunday Gleaner of February 2, 2020 titled ‘ACP sugar producers want UK to provide new incentives’ led me to reflect further on the UK-ACP relationship post-Brexit. Resulting from the membership of the United Kingdom (UK) in the...