Commentary

There is no doubt that the world system is currently undergoing a sea of change. This affects the institutional foundations of multilateralism and the embrace of the politics of global development, which underpinned the relative stability of the...

Let’s say I don’t charge National Security Minister Horace Chang for the shirt he caused me to ruin, he still owes me a cup of coffee. Here’s how it happened: I’m sitting down with my coffee in de big bright morning. I open up the newspaper while...

Tingz bad wid wi fi true. Wi love foreign food too much. Coconut oil an powder did bad enough. From all bout: Trinidad an Tobago, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia an Sri Lanka. Now dem a import coconut water? From Guyana? Wa...

As the bustling season begins to crescendo, the multimillion-dollar Christmas roadworks are in full swing. We see curbs being painted. We see slapdash asphalting. We see the overgrown shrubbery being cleared. However, with all the merry workers...

Sixty years ago, Sheila Chong, Miss Jamaica 1959, was the country’s first entrant in the Miss World beauty pageant, which began in 1951. On Sunday night, June 7, 1959, 24-year-old Sheila Chong, Miss Red Stripe Beer, was crowned Miss Jamaica at the...

Christmas Day is a widely observed holiday on which neither the past nor the future is of as much interest as the present. It is that time of the year when you exchange hellos with strangers and, except in Guyana, good ‘buys’ with friends and...

Jamaican employers need to fundamentally rethink and seriously improve the health and safety of the work environment they are providing for their employees to be productive. With the projected greying of the population and increasing windfall...

The case of Walter Duncan, who sleeps rough in downtown Kingston, as was reported by this newspaper on Wednesday, underlines the nexus between poverty and homelessness and their intersection with our decayed inner-city communities. It provides an...

Last Sunday, about mid-morning, as I left my car and walked across to one of the fruit and vegetable vendors close to the police station in the small semi-rural town centre, a policeman – a sergeant – who I knew from the 1990s beckoned to me. We...

Last week, I cautioned that with the political parties moving into election mode, we should expect higher than normal incidents of influence-wielding and vote-garnering strategies on the part of our politicians, whether in opposition or in...

I have reflected on the report carried in the press of the statement attributed to Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang, in which he states that robberies have increased in order to secure fees to pay lawyers. It would be of interest to...