Commentary

Once you start down the road – or highway – to perdition, it can be hard to turn back. I’m speaking, of course, of the ongoing 'naming war' that erupted with the administration’s decision to name the North-South...

In the years in which reparation advocates have been active in the campaign for reparation for native genocide, African enslavement and post-colonial harm, some remarkable advances have been made.The Jamaican Parliament has passed a historic...

Last week, one a mi friend dem aks mi if mi did hear di new name fi di North-South highway. Not Edward Seaga Highway! Dat a di 'official' name. Di people dem outa road a call di highway Seaga jacket! Mi nearly dead wid laugh. A...

Can someone please explain why we are so wedded to the idea of zoning schools and forcing parents to send their children to educational institutions that are in proximity to their home?I've long lost count of the innumerable suggestions from young...

We suspect that Mia Mottley hasn't asked, but we, nonetheless, suggest that Prime Minister Andrew Holness offer the Barbadian leader Jamaica's technical help, and other support, in crafting and managing what will inevitably be a tough and painful...

I still have in my outbox the text I sent to Dr Bernard Headley after reading his moving story in The Sunday Gleaner about how his father missed being on the Windrush. "Great story," I texted him. He had died only hours earlier.But Headley was not...

In this national and global debate over abortion, this piece is especially for those who, like me, have been conflicted. We sympathise with the woman pregnant with a foetus that, for good reason, she is unwilling to bring to full term. But the pro-...

The world is a little less tense and a step further back from the brink of catastrophe. Kim Jong-Un, the North Korea leader, in the wake of his summit with Donald Trump, isn't, at least for now, wagging a nervous finger over his nuclear buttons.That...