Commentary

I don’t think anyone alive – man or woman – would not agree that drastic actions must be taken to protect our women from being murdered by their spouses when relationships go sour, or when a woman decides that she no longer wants to be with any...

The tragic and sudden death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant has plunged countless fans into mourning. Bryant was exceptionally talented, and few have even approached his achievements on the court. However, his legacy is complicated. Kobe inspired...

Over the last 500 years, Christianity in Africa, and in most countries with people of African ancestry, has been charged with outright racism (when non-Blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations) and with inverse racism (when Blacks headed...

I always want to be very respectful about the efforts by the Ministry of Education to refashion the hopelessly unequal allocation of human, financial and infrastructural resources in the nation’s almost 4,000 schools and colleges. This is because I...

Another silk cotton tree has fallen. Kamau Brathwaite – historian, poet, literary critic, publisher, Caribbean man of myth and magic – has died. Born in Barbados in 1930, Brathwaite described his upbringing as preparation for becoming an Afro-Saxon...

Attempts to assuage their concerns about kickbacks and graft notwithstanding, Jamaicans mustn’t be lulled into accepting that corruption isn’t a major problem, or that it’s only a matter of a few bad apples. For, it isn’t because they have been...

The battle between political expediency and doing the right thing is constantly being waged among politicians. Invariably, they decide on what is expedient and what they believe gives them the best chance of getting in power. We see a perfect...

United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has unleashed a broadside against an unnamed, though easily identified, anti-corruption activist in Jamaica. Among Tapia’s claims are that the anti-corruption activist has accused the Holness...

From my perspective, there are three key steps that must be taken if we are committed to honouring education and its centrality to human well-being and sustainable development. It requires a compelling and fundamental shift that will offer lifelong...

There is a famous parable found in Matthew 9:14-17, where Jesus cautioned his disciples. ‘No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old...

Recently, I read The Laws of Jamaica 1741 Acts 132, 3 to Acts 133, 4 pages 194-196. It stated that “a reward of ten shillings is there given to the said Cudjo or Quaw, or to any Negro under their command for every runaway negro that shall be taken...