Commentary

Harold Hoyte wasn’t well-known in Jamaica. That doesn’t matter. For what Mr Hoyte accomplished in his native Barbados was of substantial worth to Jamaica and the Caribbean. Harold Hoyte, who died on Sunday, age 77, was a newspaper editor and...

The most positive takeaway from the Integrity Commission’s press conference yesterday was its commitment to request an unmuzzling of its ability to disclose, or otherwise speak about, investigations it undertakes until the probes are complete and...

The bizarre circumstances and varying versions of the truth surrounding the car chase, shooting, deaths and suspect escape in St Catherine have given me cause to pause. What started out as a hero story of an off-duty police officer springing into...

From the beginning of time, there have been members of the human race who have sought to deprive others of their possessions, cash or otherwise, through innumerable dishonest schemes. A comprehensive listing of fraudsters over time would...

Women are the [de facto] backbone of our nation. For whatever reason – the residual negative acculturation of slavery, where families were just chattel and males were only studs used to increase the livestock; the emergence of an itinerant male...

The May 7, 2019 tabling of Government’s Green Paper on a National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP) by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton is an important juncture in the long-running debate about how best to increase and sustain...

The only time that transparency isn’t desirable is when one dresses in public. True, it leaves little to the imagination but that is the difference between running a country and running one’s private life. When one is in charge of resources which...

It’s a settled policy. Jamaica operates a floating exchange rate. The logic is simple. Not only does this currency regime provide policymakers with greater flexibility in the management of the macroeconomy, the clear evidence is that it has worked...

Chris Tufton’s announcement of the formal addition of ‘wellness’ to the name of Jamaica’s health ministry may not have been the big takeaway from his review speech in Parliament last week. Yet, it implies a shifting philosophy to health and...

There is palpable optimism in every nook and cranny across the country about the economy because Jamaica is in a really good place right now. Though things are far from perfect or where we need the country to be, quite a bit of what’s happening is...

It’s among the many tragedies of West Indies cricket that its managers haven’t done a good job in keeping the names, but for a few, of the region’s past, great players alive. One of those players, Seymour Nurse, died on Monday, aged 85, and perhaps...

I have always thought of the Caribbean and Latin America, and Europe as two sister regions, united by history, cultural and economic ties. In recent years, our cooperation has reached unprecedented levels. And today, our two regions are much...