Commentary

Four months of mass protests in the streets of Hong Kong, and thousands of injuries and arrests – but only two gunshot wounds, both very recent and neither life-threatening. Five days of mass protests in the streets of Baghdad, and there are...

Hagley Park Road is now fully active and once again being used by commuters. Already, taxi and minibus drivers are leading the way when it comes to rank indiscipline and dangerous driving. Even when the roadway was barely drivable, even when it...

This is a public notice inviting applications from suitably qualified persons to deal with crime. Politicians from Parliament, present and past, need not apply – and not because they prequalify for the Order of National Hero. To the contrary, it is...

Two Saturdays ago, I got a call from one of the vendors at Papine Market. He wanted to know if I was planning to come because there was a ‘situation’ he wanted me to know about. He did not elaborate. When I got there, I was greeted by several angry...

There are many good reasons for children to stay away from dance halls. Lyrics laced with expletives and including derogatory references to women, explicit dancing, drugs, nudity and X-rated conduct are all par for the course at these adult dances...

Once upon a time, at the Pearly Gates of Heaven where St Peter presides as the sole selector of souls virtuous enough to be allowed admission, there came before him a teacher, a doctor, and a journalist. St Peter met them and said, “It’s good to...

We must not relax because the Government has announced that it will withdraw its resolution that would see an increase in the exemption period for public access to Cabinet documents from 20 to a whopping 70 years. The very attempt was a backward...

Every well-thinking Jamaican was saddened upon hearing of the mauling of a teacher by dogs recently. It is my hope that she will avail herself of psychological counselling. She will need it. It will be expensive, and I hope she will not have to pay...

A few days ago, Patria-Kaye Aarons, Nationwide journalist and Gleaner columnist, held a masterclass on interviewing where she calmly and skilfully dissected the complex subject matter so that listeners were equally entertained and informed. She...

During his Independence Day message to the country in 2013, His Excellency the Governor General (GG) Sir Patrick Allen expressed the view, perhaps the hope, that “there is nothing wrong with Jamaica that cannot be fixed by what is right with...

Reference is made to The Gleaner’s editorial captioned ‘Of PSOJ and the Supplementary Estimates’ in the September 30, 2019, issue and in particular to the reference that “ninety per cent (J$45.5 billion) of the increase (in the Supplementary Budget...

The Gleaner editorial (‘Tell us more, Dr Chang’, October 1, 2019) accurately pinpointed the question to be answered by Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang. What advantage does detention for an indefinite period in a state of emergency (...