Commentary

The Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ) last Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the HEART Trust/NTA (HEART) to promote the acceptance of the National Vocational Qualification of Jamaica (NVQ-J) and the...

I promised Twitter followers I’d ask my friend The Terrible Tout for his East Portland by-election prediction for release March 16, but decided, on reflection, not to appear to try to influence the result with an early forecast. It’s time for Touty...

The Government’s decision to close the PetroCaribe Development Fund (PCDF) as of March 31, 2019, and the planned April initial public offering (IPO) for Wigton Windfarm Ltd are important markers in the evolution of Jamaica’s energy arrangements....

A so it set, since the Negro Education Grant of 1834 prescribed Jamaica’s education process as: “ A provision for regulating the condition of the Negroes as may combine their welfare with the interests of the proprietors”, and which interest was to...

You must never kick a man when he is down. However, during the last three years, whenever I wrote specifically on education, or generally on the economy, I took the minister to task about the direction of education. I stated my misgivings about...

More than half the present population of Jamaica were not alive in August 1980 when she walked on to the stage. Neville Willoughby asked her something. Funny, I do not remember the question but the answer resonated in my mind, “That is correct!”...

Buju Banton is one of the songwriters whose lyrics were on the syllabus of the ‘Reggae Poetry’ course I taught for a decade at The University of the West Indies, Mona. He was in excellent company with Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Bob...

The revelations coming out of the Supreme Court over the last few weeks have given the country a glimpse into how the dark, criminal underworld operates and exposed some of the people who have apparently enabled gangs in their agenda of brutality...

We are not aware that someone, as was the case earlier this month, with those for the previous three years, has, in Nicodemus fashion, tabled in the House the parliamentarians’ integrity report for 2017. We have reason to believe, however, that the...

For me, the most striking thing about the 2016 general election was that the voter turnout was the lowest in Jamaica’s history, at 47.72 per cent. The victorious party won 436,972 votes or 23.95 per cent of the 1,824,410 votes on the roll. The...

And so it came to pass that within the space of a few days, Ruel Reid’s world was turned upside down, with scathing allegations galore and his forthwith departure from the ministry, Cabinet and Senate. At the same time, the saga of alleged assault...

After six years of leadership, Dave Cameron appeared shocked by his emphatic 8-4 defeat by Ricky Skerritt for the presidency of Cricket West Indies. In his conception, he was betrayed by at least one of the territorial cricket boards that had...