Commentary

Jamaica should be producing more of the items we consume. Everybody agrees. However, the reality is that Jamaica is now importing more than 1,000 products from all over the world as consumers embrace global brands.A quick look at the June 2018...

The extrapolations from Prime Minister Andrew Holness' data, and the police's actual murder figures, on the face of it, differ a bit.According to the prime minister, in the period since the declaration of a state of public emergency in St James,...

About two weeks ago, I was walking on a low-trafficked roadway in Kingston when a teenage girl, dressed in uniform, approached me."Miss, the basic school lock?" she asked, referring to the kindergarten from which I had just exited."Yes, it appears...

Few will disagree with Carla Gullotta that Carolyn Warren's achievements over the last quarter-century, including her current job as CEO of the Government's National Energy Solutions (NESol), is "testament to the power of rehabilitation".It is not...

For the last week or so, there have been conversations around Krystal Tomlinson and her pregnancy for international dancehall artiste Beenie Man. Many persons, like one Lipton Matthews, have stated that she shouldn't be glorified for being pregnant...

The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) has expressed concern about two incidents in which the police have stopped cameramen, employed by the press, from making recordings in the public space.One of those incidents included an operation in the...

No one would question, or would wish so to do, that it was Andrew Holness' humanity that impelled him to visit the home of brain-damaged Tahj Rowe and make a personal donation towards the care of the invalid boy.But, as Mr Holness would know, even...

Disappointment does not capture the sentiment that I felt reading the article in the recent Sunday Gleaner titled 'Abusive homosexuals'. Aside from the fact that the title itself is overly sensational and problematic, the article itself misses...

I always beseech women with 'inconvenient' pregnancies to keep them, and I have lived to see many of them return to show off their kids, all grown, loving and responsible, productive adults.Many times, that is the only child that they ever have....

It's an old refrain of CARICOM's honchos that the Community's citizens are central to the concept of regional integration. Therefore, as the Golding Report recalled the former Jamaican prime minister, P.J. Patterson, as saying, the region's leaders...