Commentary

Squatting knows no boundaries. It defies court orders, is indifferent to land owned by the Church, and is precocious given its proximity to Parliament and the way in which settlements perch precariously on riverbanks and gullies. Land is 'free',...

The presentation of Interim Guidelines seeking to reduce the sugar content of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) sold in schools, by Minister of Health Christopher Tufton, has garnered notable public attention. While much of the conversation...

Some of the best lessons for modern-day politics and better relations between two countries are often learned from stories of decades ago.Jamaica enjoyed no better relationship with a US President than that with John F. Kennedy. Kennedy had been...

I once compared Pavarotti with the Prince of Port-of-Spain, multiple batting record holder, Brian Lara. It is true that in music, the conductor uses a baton, and the cricketer a bat. In opera, while the person in charge of the music, the conductor,...

Barack Obama said of the US midterm elections that "the character of our country is on the ballot," and the outcome proved him right. The United States is a psychological basket case, more deeply and angrily divided than at any time since the...

I read with some level of disquiet the report in the Guardian newspaper of November 5, 2018, of the visit of a member of the British royal family, Prince Charles, and his wife Camilla, to Ghana, a country from which millions of Africans were...

There have been many instances in our country's relatively short history where leadership decisions have been made that could so easily have had adverse effects on the health of Jamaica's democracy.I believe the present Government's recent decision...

We are encouraged by Daryl Vaz's optimism that Jamaica's proposed ban on single-use plastic bags, and some other plastic containers, will unleash domestic investment in the manufacturing of alternative products, and his seeming confidence that...

At Jamaica's stage and state of development, it definitely has to be in the business of attracting foreign capital, including loans from multilateral and bilateral partners, to help in the expansion of the country's infrastructure. Over the last...

Governance is difficult.During election campaign time, the relative ease with which politicians climb platforms and promise to make life better for each and every individual in a country is a far cry from the real business of making, implementing...