Commentary

A few days ago, the world reached a historic milestone – its first-ever AI cabinet minister. The Prime Minister of Albania introduced to the Albanian parliament, a female avatar dressed in traditional Albanian clothing, which he calls Diella....

WESLEY MORRIS’ September 7 article on former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson’s tenure reads less like serious political analysis. His surgical cherry-picking of the 1992-1995 period is a masterclass in what Darrell Huff immortalised as How to Lie...

LAST WEEK, I wrote about the perils of ignoring prostate health, and, in the days since, I’ve been stopped everywhere, from supermarket aisles to my favourite patty shop, by women, yes, women, who confessed that they were the ones who nagged and...

IN THE lead-up to the recent general elections, both political parties made promises about how they would manage and protect Jamaica’s natural environment. With the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) new term now underway, it is important to look closely...

It might otherwise have gone unnoticed and uncommented on. But the exceptional circumstances of Gaza, and Jamaica’s previous misstep in a related UN vote, requires that Kingston explain why it didn’t cast a ballot on the General Assembly decision...

Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder has created a firestorm, with responses ranging from profound grief and anger to open celebrations of his passing. Grief is a natural response after someone dies, especially the way Kirk did. But why has the death of...

Just a few years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of families in Latin America and the Caribbean did not know whether they would have enough food for the next day. The shutdown of economies, massive job losses, and the sharp...

With Jamaica’s acknowledged serious shortage of healthcare professionals, it is urgent that the authorities do more to the deal with the problems of accrediting doctors trained abroad, especially in China. In this newspaper’s view the statement...

Were it true, it would confound this newspaper that prosecutors would wilfully frustrate the wish of accused persons to be tried without juries. That is unless they have compelling evidence that judges slated to hear the cases were likely to behave...

It is neither science nor ‘sciance’. Yet, my predictions were close, both in regard to the general election and of course the World Athletics Championships. It ends today, and I am sticking my neck out that we will medal in at least three relays...

Jamaica’s appearance on America’s list of countries that are either major producers or transshipment points for illicit drugs will be discomforting for Kingston, but isn’t, on its face, a source of crisis for the Holness administration. As it now...

Have you seen Lord Melody? The police are making inquiries Please if you see the Boo Boo man Get in touch with the nearest police station Ah hear he have a big maintenance case Causing a sensation in the place Ah cow in the country...