Commentary

While driving to work one morning, heading towards Lee's Family Supermarket, I made a right turn on to Pamela Avenue from Red Hills Road. To my surprise, I was met with an elderly man in a wheelchair travelling in the left lane towards Red Hills...

There has been much debate on the issue of extending the three states of emergency (SOEs) currently in force in St James,St Catherine North, and in parts of the Corporate Area. All three SOEs expire in January 2019, and the resolutions seeking...

The Government may have taken its sweet time. We nonetheless welcome its initiative to shore up the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), for which we have campaigned for three years since it became apparent that the scheme was in serious trouble and in...

Sigh. Remember these awards are (mostly) meant to be humorous. The Dunce was a happy-go-lucky character who never took anything seriously. If you suffer from CLAMS ('can't-laugh-at-myself' syndrome), avert your eyes.The Old Ball and Chain insists on...

We are using the political process that was meant to keep us free to constitute the strongest shackle fettering national development. That's stupid!Last Tuesday's final sitting of the House of Representatives was preceded with one highly placed...

On December 11, 2018, the joint select committee reviewing the Sexual Offences Act and related acts published its long-awaited report. Some gains were made in the recommendations largely because of the persistent advocacy of civil-society groups....

The picture Andrew Wheatley painted of himself in his interview with this newspaper a week ago was of a snivelling, remorseful character, too out of his depth to be aware that Petrojam was being incompetently run and, figuratively, sacked by the...

Peter Tosh's provocative song, African, on his militant Equal Rights album, was released more than 40 years ago. It opened with this startling declaration: "Don't care where you come from/As long as you're a black man, you're an African."None of the...

The Jamaican State may be passing up on chances to build trust. For example, National Identification System (NIDS) spokespersons have seemed more inclined to defend the system than to discuss it. As a result, they seem to be missing out on...

In England, it is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances. Although 'suspicious' is not defined in the statute, being drunk to the gills might constitute a cause.Perhaps drunk with power, the British lawmakers also made it an offence...