Commentary

When Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s global legate, comes on his two-day State visit next week, he must be made aware that Jamaica won’t be quiescent about the often irrational behaviours of the US president, too many of which threaten to wreck a...

“The more things change, the more they remain the same.” This popular adage aptly describes the present state of affairs which has sent shock waves through the country. Alarmingly, since the start of the new year, three women have been...

Those of us Jamaicans with sensitive consciences find it difficult to be identified with political parties chronically implicated in corruption or that maintain political garrisons, or which refuse to disassociate themselves from political thugs...

Late last year, Alfred Reid (1937-2019), 13th Bishop of Jamaica and Cayman islands, was laid to rest. He was a man of courage and compassion. Reid was a courageous leader. In 1973, Father Alfred Reid, rector of the St Jude’s Church, in the...

Nevia Sinclair is Jamaica’s most recent victim of domestic abuse. Her story has raised alarm and outrage over the pervasiveness of intimate-partner violence in Jamaica. In 2018, it was reported by STATIN that one in four Jamaican women have...

This year, the World Trade Organization (WTO) marks 25 years since its establishment on January 1, 1995. It will be holding its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakstan, June 8-11, at a critical point in its short history....

I am writing because of my strong conviction in reaction to the story ‘Ratify our sovereignty, Maroon leader urges State’ carried in The Gleaner on January 9. I am not only incensed but even appalled that a Maroon leader should think that he and...

In enumerating their case for reparation, advocates fail to propound unsentimental arguments. To justify their demands, they posit that Britain’s prosperity stems from the success of colonies in the West Indies. Slavery enriched some entrepreneurs...

With school having resumed, my mind goes back to one of the many issues it is felt have been impacting the academic advancement of many students – gender bias. We all have heard the allegations of gender bias on the part of teachers, but we hear...

There is quite a to-do in Britain over a relatively minor member of the Windsor clan, with little prospect of ever becoming head of the family firm, wanting to leave the business and make his own way in the world – of sorts. Which is the essence of...

Frighteningly, it is really not a DRIFT anymore but a RUSH from our classrooms. Most school principals are seeing their best teachers migrating or contemplating leaving their classrooms for more lucrative employment. Even the one or two well-...

With the somewhat surprising announcement that Dr Dayton Campbell has been reinvited into the Shadow Cabinet, the acrimonious leadership contest in the People’s National Party (PNP) seems to be finally ending. First to the issue of why people are...