Commentary

“Who has the better chance of beating Andrew Holness?” According to the Rise United full-page advertisement appearing in The Sunday Gleaner of September 1, 2019, a recently conducted Don Anderson poll has indicated that it is Peter Bunting who is...

No one will be surprised by Thursday’s ­imposition by the Government of a state of public emergency in the parishes of Clarendon and St Catherine, following the one that has been in place in the western arc of St James, Hanover, and Westmoreland...

Pick the road with the highest speed limit in Jamaica – one of the highways. Accelerate to the speed limit of 110km – just above 68 miles per hour. Now apply more pressure to the gas pedal. A lot more. Double the speed limit. Triple it. Quadruple...

August 23, 2019 will probably, in retrospect, be seen as a day of great significance in analysing current global economic trends. It was the day that United States President Donald Trump excoriated his Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, as an...

I am quite sure most Jamaicans are familiar with the term ‘using basket fi carry water’ and understand the impracticality of the ‘practice’. Ironically, it seems our system of government is predicated on using baskets to carry the waters of...

Dr Peter Phillips was obviously a great minister, but is not a great leader. His outstanding performance as a minister has not translated to anything noteworthy since he was crowned president of the People’s National Party. The records show Dr...

When the World Trade Organization (WTO) resumes work shortly, the members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), like others, will need to be prepared to address the issues on WTO reform, which include proposals on special and differential treatment...

It is hardly a contrivance of death that the recurring adjectives in the tributes to Ken Baugh relate to decency and service. He was that kind of man. A skilled surgeon, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) politician and government minister, Dr Baugh died...

A two-party arrangement may seem like the ideal for maintaining democracy. In the past, we had good United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US) examples. Though not so in fact, to us, Europe’s multiparty coalitions appeared clumsy and ineffective....

“One in four people worldwide will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental-health disorders among the leading causes of ill health...

There won’t be open pushback to Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ insistence last week that taxpayers must get value for public infrastructure projects and his admonition of the National Works Agency (NWA) for not doing enough to protect the public...