Commentary

The way that the Calabar High School authorities handled the dust-up reportedly involving a teacher and two of their star athletes deserved a failing grade. The physics teacher claimed that he was abused and assaulted during an altercation with two...

It was two weeks of mixed fortunes for the Brave who fell, won, fell again, and fell again, but I suspect that they will not yield. Of course, Jamaicans know that I am speaking of Kingston College (KC), a school co-founded by unmarried St George’s...

In 2012, for the first time in its almost 40-year history, the National Gallery of Jamaica hosted an exhibition of poster art: the top 100 entries from the first International Reggae Poster Contest. Six hundred and seventy-eight designers from 80...

On March 14, as I watched Peter Phillips’ Budget presentation, my mind drifted back four short years. Then (March 2015), Peter was finance minister. He said: “Let me be clear and fair. This build-up of debt didn’t happen overnight … . It was...

Good things come to those who bait. This is the essence of the old Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” The first time I heard it I was overwhelmed by the sheer...

Advocates of reparation welcome the announcement that Britain will compensate the Windrush generation victims of its harsh immigration policies, a package totalling two hundred million pounds. This was announced by Asif Ahmad, the British high...

Near the first anniversary of Nicaragua’s popular uprising that was strangled in blood by the government of Daniel Ortega, repression continues rampant, while dialogue with the Organization of American States and the Vatican is in limbo. Democracy...

On March 26, 2017 – almost exactly two years ago – Dr Peter David Phillips became the fifth president of the People’s National Party (PNP) by acclamation, but the handwriting was on the wall sometime before that. Four months earlier (on November 28...

Calvin Rowe was quite possibly a worthwhile teacher of English literature. It is about his leadership that we have profound doubts. In that, we are not alone. Which is why he must seriously consider his future as the acting principal of Calabar...

Years ago, I watched the movie White Man’s Burden, which was based on an alternative reality in the United States where the lower class consisted mainly of white Americans who lived in run-down and crime-infested ghetto communities while the upper...

The article ‘No stomach for politics’ published by The Gleaner, March 10, 2019, is a most honest, brave and instructive political expression for the year. It provides a most glaring definition and description of the social and political...

There is an old, old adage which goes like this: ‘Yu nuh si smoke widdout fyah.’This is quite fitting to what I want to share with readers in Jamaica. Since March 2018, many persons, including myself, have painstakingly volunteered to assist as...