Commentary

After a couple of weeks talking about language proficiency, I'm in the mood to talk in terms of numbers. Here are the numbers that defined the week for me as a spectator of the news flowing out of our beautiful little island.ZERO (0)Zero! That's the...

Pastor Omar Oliphant's letter to the editor, published in The Gleaner last Thursday, is an excellent example of a desperate attempt to wriggle out of a tight situation. The headline is a plea for redemption: 'Song reference not intended to incite...

I was 19 years old when I made my first trip, in 1964, by plane to Tobago. My first flight in a jet plane came after the song about leaving on one. I was 26 when, in 1971, I left to take up a journalism scholarship at Carleton University in Ottawa,...

Jamaica's heritage is multifaceted, features of Jamaican life we have inherited from our forebears that define our identity as Jamaicans. This heritage has created a powerful brand, recognisable right across the world, and which translates into...

This past week, as I browsed through various articles in our local newspapers, I picked up on a theme of underperforming state agencies, scarce resources and questionable management of government assets. Without a doubt, the ability of various...

Andrew Wheatley's name stays on the Centre For Digital Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing, according to Professor Fritz Pinnock, president of the Caribbean Maritime University. He defended the naming and the name remaining, because Wheatley 'did...

In May of this year, six months before the 41-year-old accountant in the civil service, Kirmani Linton, was shot dead, he reached an unpleasant end to a five-year relationship. "Towards the end of the relationship, it was more like a feud every day...

You'd recall the old cliche, "In life, if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." It is true for people, but is it also true for brands? Should companies engage in the risk strategy of 'brand-standing'? In this context, brand...

We can't claim to have clarity on what the position of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) and, by extension, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is on a specific allegation that one of the church's pastors may have incited, or come close to inciting...

About a year or two ago, I interviewed a known and respected elder from a St James address. His was a community once riddled with crime and criminals, and in a short space of time, a drastic turnaround was made in the police-reported statistics...

Sometime after his December 10 sentencing, Constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown will, in all likelihood, appeal his convictions on the counts of murder, and conspiracy to murder, of which a jury last week determined he was guilty. That's the usual form...