Commentary

Last Friday, I called the Jamaica Red Cross to get an update on Peach Beach. Community groups in Discovery Bay are still fearful that one of these days they’ll wake up to find that the beach has been leased to the Guardsman Group. And privatised,...

The Government has acted sensibly, not only in deciding against appealing the Constitutional Court’s rejection of its national identification law, but in its planned approach to crafting the replacement legislation. According to the justice...

Every time there is a ‘missing child’ alert, the entire nation goes into panic mode. The anguish that a child could be in danger and could even be killed is shared by parents, the school community and even complete strangers. Without even knowing...

We note Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ concern that he was likened to Hitler. It occurs to us that he missed the point of the constructive criticism. As Krystal Tomlinson sought to clarify her tweets, she pointed to the issue of his habitual...

Both the Integrity Commission and Prime Minister Andrew Holness owe Jamaicans further and better particulars about the PM’s income, asset, and liability filings for 2016, lest the issue becomes mired in deeper obfuscation and doubt, further eroding...

As citizens, we need to hold our institutions and organisations that are set up to govern our welfare accountable. For too long we have suffered and our resilience put on display; a change must come, and now. Many of our citizens who are not able...

The demons haunting a young politician like People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) President Krystal Tomlinson are those which speak to her carving out her own piece of influence in the PNP leadership, especially when the PNP president...

The saying that ‘power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ holds true for just about every group that enjoys some level of power in our fair isle. While politicians are at the top of the feeding tree where power and corruption are...

The “right to freedom of opinion and expression” is a phrase uttered with endless count, especially since being established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Of late, this freedom has been maligned as part reason for the increasing...

Ron Sanders, a usually perceptive ­observer of, and commentator on, regional affairs, has been warning of the likelihood of the use of subterfuge, and political clout, by a group of ­hemispheric countries to ramrod Luis Almagro to a second term as...

Whether you were born uptown, downtown, or roun’ town, it is important for us to understand that every life that is born in this country is a seed of potential that is driven by purpose or destiny, that is arranged and decided by the manufacturer,...

A young married couple named Mary and Joe decided to take a vacation in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasy land beyond the clouds. Mary was seven months pregnant, so the couple decided to have one last idyllic holiday before the baby came and changed...