Commentary

Jamaica's Government and its foreign-policy establishment have accomplished a great feat. They walked in a deluge and managed not to get wet. Or so, perhaps, they believe. In which event, they are misguided.For few people, we expect, see the foreign...

In a recent Gleaner article, '40% of Jamaicans say parents must approve abortion by teenagers', Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison advanced some troubling positions contrary to the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents...

Have our education bureaucrats lost their way? Reading in the daily newspapers of Monday, May 14, 2018, that we will move to mass customisation education is really going back to the days of the industrial revolution, which was 250 years ago.Where is...

You may be wondering if there is anything good about the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH).The CRH opened around 1974. The Architects Collaborative (TAC) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, designed the hospital. It became the largest dedicated...

The People's National Party (PNP) is focused on the wrong thing - on effect and outcomes, rather than fundamental cause. The problem is the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) itself, rather than who heads the unit that oversees it.Unfortunately, it...

As a gynaecologist, certain instruments are essential to my practice: vaginal speculums, my ultrasound machine, and my iPod. Yes. My iPod. The device is never far from me, and it contains more than 15,000 songs of different genres. In addition, all...

What follows are edited sections of a sectoral address delivered in the House of Representatives last Wednesday.The creolization of the so-called Westminster model of government that we have adapted often degenerates into going at each other's guts...

Unless Justice Bryan Sykes' decision is overturned at appeal - if the persons who brought the case decide to take it further - people who live in Hope Pastures, St Andrew, have to abide with overhead power lines. Excepting that they agree to pay...

I'll no doubt get skewered for saying this, but I can't pretend that I don't understand the off-duty policeman's rage and frustration at the windshield wiper who apparently wouldn't leave him alone. Call it sympathy for the Devil, because I also...

On December 8, 2017, while everyone was expressing their wishes for the festive season, the governor general gave his assent to the National Identification and Registration Act 2017 as the majority party in the Lower House had, in effect, voted to...