Commentary

Jamaica’s ongoing battle to keep up with, and even stay ahead of today’s sophisticated criminals, necessitate that our crime-fighters acquaint themselves with the technological perspicacity that is inherent to living in today’s modern world....

Everyone is now concerned and talking about poor people getting their fair share, though almost no politician can honestly say they have done much for the poor and vulnerable of this country. It’s quite cute, actually. Seemingly, very few of them...

And so Ruel Reid goes, shunted off stage by the prime minister, like a man reading from a homophobic manuscript at an LGBTQI spoken word concert. The reaction of the audience? A stunned silence. Like the stunned silence with which many Jamaicans...

Today is The Old Ball and Chain’s 39th birthday. Again! On the twoth of March, she celebrated her 37th wedding anniversary (today is the 40th anniversary of unofficial marriage), proving that even if I plead “not guilty” to robbing the cradle,...

The training and teaching of our children are too precious to be deflected by scandal. Adults underestimate how impressionable young people are. So ask yourself, what lessons the more than 700,000 Jamaican youth are ingesting from the avalanche of...

The Rev Karl Johnson, chairman of Calabar High School, has, it seems, a flawed interpretation of how the principles of privacy should be applied at his school. Matters relating to Calabar should be internal. He also, it appears, shares the populist...

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Last month, mi did write one column wid dis ya headline, ‘Pom-Pom, Yes! P**-P**, No Way!’ One parson man sen mi one email bout it: “Just finished reading your delightfully mischievous and educational column. I have to share...

George Conway, a conservative lawyer and husband of Kellyanne Conway, adviser to United States President Donald Trump, is one of the harshest critics of his wife’s boss. Recently, he made some more unflattering comments about President Trump....

Jamaica, like many other countries, has finally taken action to fight the war on obesity. This is necessary if we are to have any hope of controlling the social and financial burdens of related morbidity and mortality. The fact that the severe...

We applaud the Government’s plan to renovate 100 police stations across the island as a most deserving project. The crumbling infrastructure that is commonly seen in most police stations has long been a source of discomfort for the police and the...

The Caribbean has had a firm tradition of supporting the sovereign rights of nations. For example, in 1972, the prime ministers of Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica upheld the sovereign right of Caribbean states to establish and...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness obviously learned something from Petrojam and its related scandals. So, rather than allow the slow, damaging drip of tawdry and salacious information about nepotism and corruption that eventually brought down Andrew...