Commentary

Many years ago, a patient related to me how he almost lost his life. He was driving a pickup truck with several workers in the back, just after midnight. When they arrived at the intersection of Spanish Town Road and Maxfield Avenue, they noticed a...

The education authorities were right to rescind Calabar High's attempt to expel fourth-form boys for failing to achieve its declared grade for promotion to the next class. Nonetheless, the controversy has reprised a long-standing issue in Jamaica's...

Senator Ruel Reid has precedent and prescription for how the Ministry of Education addresses Calabar High School, and any other school at the secondary level faced with the real dilemma of student failure. He was principal of Jamaica College when it...

The new government of Malaysia, led by Mahathir Mohamad, has started a movement that the current Jamaican Government and/or Opposition should view prudently. According to a New York Times article published on August 20, 2018, the 93-year-old Mohamad...

The recent Independence celebration was the backdrop for much reflection about growth and prosperity in Jamaica. While some of our leaders waxed glowingly about prosperity, lingering questions remain: How much progress have me made since 1962? How...

We have an uncanny habit of calling for more draconian punishments to deal with crime and violence rather than actually demanding that the systems work to truly improve citizen safety and secure justice. Seemingly, doing so makes us feel good about...

What is this big obsession with people's personal style preferences? Why do government workers insist on becoming the fashion police?No sooner did I pop the champagne in celebration of the right to expose my scandalously naked shoulders did...

The daily devaluation of the Jamaican dollar is causing prices of almost everything to go up, while our salaries remain the same. The effect is that every day, we get a little poorer.The Government would have us believe that the present sustained...

Finance Minister Nigel Clarke's publication of the Bank of Jamaica's (BOJ) August 7 report to him has been rightly welcomed (Gleaner editorial, August 27), especially as now it is to be standard procedure. This 20-page report, summarised with fair...