Commentary

This month, towards its end, will mark a year since the promulgation of the law establishing the new Integrity Commission and the appointment of the five commissioners charged with overseeing its work. In that regard, the group, chaired by retired...

It would be so nice if when forecasting the country’s annual growth performance I could draw on the platitudes and unrestrained optimism of government leaders, where every project is a winner and every capital investment is a star. The...

Nine months ago, fire broke out in Papine Market and destroyed a substantial section of the roof. Up to now, it has not been fixed. Vendors have been forced to use tarpaulin to create a makeshift cover to protect themselves and their produce from...

It’s getting tougher to manoeuvre about Kingston these days given the enormous amount of roadwork, which has been ongoing since early 2018.Indeed, it is truly a nightmare attempting to traverse roads such as Dunrobin Avenue, Constant Spring Road, and Mandela Highway...

The abortion debate in Jamaica is as old as time but there has barely been any positive action to provide women with access to safe, legal and affordable services to terminate pregnancies. Instead, we pussyfoot with our obligations...

Notwithstanding the certitude with which his permanent secretary, Sancia Bennett Templer, spoke before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), we concede to Prime Minister Andrew Holness that it was never his intention that the managers...

In its editorial yesterday, the Jamaica Observer reveals that it views abortion as a religious issue – “Once the debate enters the realm

There has been a lot of hype about Jamaica becoming a logistics hub and positioning itself as the fourth node in the global logistics system after Singapore, Dubai and Rotterdam. However, given the countless political promises, ideas and...

On Sunday, the 58th Kingston Keswick Convention ended at the Boulevard Baptist Church in St. Andrew with the main speaker, Rev. Dr. Dylan Toussaint, pastor of the Edgewater Circuit of Baptist Churches, giving the final charge. In 1875, the Keswick...

On the face of it, the observations by former prime minister, Bruce Golding, and the opposition leader, Dr Peter Phillips, in speeches ov

All laws devolve legitimacy from national constitutions, yet 57 years later, two-thirds of Jamaica's laws are relics of British colonial