Commentary

Educational institutions are built on partnerships and parents are the cornerstones of this pact. Without the support of parents, schools, colleges and universities would not exist, as it is the decision to enrol one’s child that will determine the...

Norman Manley ­expressed the view that his generation brought political Independence and it was the task of future generations to deliver economic ­independence, termed “economic liberation” by some in Africa. Economic independence, realistically...

In the three decades after 1962, policing was purely suppressive. The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) handed to independent Jamaica was modelled on the North Ireland paramilitary force. Prime Minister Hugh Shearer, in the late 1960s, gave the JCF...

Messages of congratulations on achieving 57 years of Independence have flooded Jamaica House from many friendly nations, including several from Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland far beyond the clouds. Apocryphan Prime Minister Andrue Polemess...

It is more than three months since Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that he had ordered a review of the Bernard Lodge project – his plan to develop a city of 17,000 homes, factories, commercial buildings and recreational facilities on...

Every child who attends a public school in Jamaica has been presented with a fee voucher to be paid before September morning or during the academic year. Up to grade six, the amount varies around $10,000, while for the higher grades, the figure can...

For more than a generation now, Jamaica has endured a period of low economic growth and a very high rate of murders. GDP growth for the last 30 years averaged less than one per cent per annum, while the average annual murder rate has climbed above...

There is a four-letter onomatopoeic word, sometimes suffixed with the preposition ‘up’, which both crudely describes the most intimate of interactions as well as the act of doing major damage to something or someone. Generally, the rule is that the...

Bun are very hot. You may be wondering why I say are, but it’s because bun is plural, for it doesn’t come singularly. When you find out about one piece of bun, it means that many loaves have gone over the counter undetected. We all know that pain,...

As I viewed the programme ‘All Angles’ on TVJ on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, I felt compelled to share my views. One strong point that came out is that the Church’s silence is deafening on the matter of sexual abuse. How disheartening. Sexual abuse...

Maurice Tomlinson’s request that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) declare Jamaica’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage as offensive to the hemispheric convention on rights is unlikely, in the near term, to lead a change to...

Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which you emerge from the CXC examination room and your classmates are discussing the questions. You discover, to your horror, that you completely misread a question and had, in fact, written foolishness. So you...