Commentary

Belief in a deity is a concept some atheists struggle to understand. Many cannot fathom why anyone would seek to worship a mystical figure he does not see. Scoffing at religious beliefs is currently fashionable, with believers often being...

Justice might be blind but it should by now clearly see that Judgment Day is here, and it is not just a bad Hollywood movie but a series of events that even, with all due respect, makes me wonder about judges and whether we are courting disaster or...

Dr Alfred Dawes’ article ‘Links to Trump’ in The Sunday Gleaner (May 26, 2019) about Jamaica’s culture, basically says our culture holds us back with its endemic corruption and so forth. So that makes Jamaicans ‘inferior’, he posits in relationship...

Sir William Alexander Bustamante married Gladys Maud Longbridge on December 7, 1962, in the tiny chapel at the residence of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kingston. Present were the members of the first Cabinet of independent Jamaica. This past...

Eddie Seaga’s death has naturally taken me back to a time where we both shared an interest (for different reasons) in one small community, Tivoli Gardens, the nucleus of power and strife in the Western Kingston constituency. In about three...

“She careless” was the description, by a man in his late forties, of a young woman who he witnessed being robbed by a bike rider of her cellular phone in broad daylight. I witnessed the robbery and heard the statement by that man one day last week...

Yesterday, iconic Jamaican political figure, Edward Philip George Seaga, passed from us and entered the land of Legends. He became Jamaica’s fifth prime minister in 1980 but his seminal contribution to the crafting and development of independent...

Many miles away, By the Blue Mountain rise Where the bitter cold winds blow Once dense air, condense here As ghastly mist, with an eerie glow. And in this mist, was a soul adrift A ghostly mist, with a soul adrift…. Jamal Khashoggi...

Inspired by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the University of the West Indies (UWI) and Brock University in Canada, the Daily Observer’s Editorial for April 28 warned, in the title, ‘Take Canada for Granted at Our Peril’.  I thought that this provided an opportunity...

The Beast had been boiling in the summer heat waiting in his father’s car (no air-conditioning in those days), while Gene Autry and I drove around trying to find a fourth. As usual, I expressed concern. Gene’s standard reply was “Let the Beast boil...

In the last eight years, there have been two traffic-ticket amnesties in Jamaica, conducted in three tranches. The last of these ran from November 27, 2017, to January 13, 2018, and covered traffic tickets issued between September 2010 and October...