Commentary

One cannot declare if it was one of the seminal moments in the history of Jamaica’s underworld, but it happened during the 1990s. The thug brigade attached to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) had been taking a...

Recently, a valedictorian at a tertiary institution concluded his speech with the use of an expletive. Expletives in our context are crude expressions; obscene expressions; curse words; swear words; cuss words. It is an expression that is widely...

It’s an old habit of Jamaican governments, through their national security ministers, to curry favour, or attempt to ingratiate themselves, with the police, even as they declare an intent of holding the constabulary to account. They, of course,...

President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya will be hosting the 9th Conference of Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States in Nairobi, December 9-10. The theme is ‘A Transformed ACP: Committed...

December 3 is observed across the world as International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) under the theme ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’. This...

Dominoes with the Dunce as a partner can be stressful. Nobody suffered more than his brother cum domino genius, Dessie. Not that the Dunce was a bad player. It was just that he preferred mischief to thought. The sibling tension highlighted that...

The Government’s plan to build, with Chinese support, six schools specialising in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is, on the face of it, exciting, but Prime Minister Andrew Holness has to make a better case than he has, thus...

Emergency Rooms (ERs) are understaffed. And they must accommodate patients (even in chairs) until beds are available on the wards. Sometimes this takes several days. A certain well-known and heavily subscribed ER has only 50 per cent of the...

These days I am being invited to speak to boys a lot, an opportunity I embrace with much gratitude. One of my last sessions was with a group of grades five and six boys from a school in the Corporate Area. It was Boys’ Day at the institution, and...

The over-pressured pipe that burst in the Pembroke Hall High School classroom recently was simply one of many. Nothing new. Teachers who spend day after day trying hard to teach and discipline rotten-behavioured students will have mental breakdowns...

There are not enough Labourites or Comrades in this country to win an election for their party. However, there are large numbers of persons and certain key constituents who, if you lose them, then the election is a stiff task and if successful,...

Too often, people argue that homosexuality is the root cause of HIV and offer proof that same-sex behaviours are abnormal. As we observe AIDS Awareness Week and World AIDS Day in the coming week, it is worthwhile to revisit Dr Wayne West’s letter...