Commentary

Jamaicans trust their army. So much so that approximately six of every ten would support a military coup as a means of tackling the country's crime problem.Not only is that sentiment strongest in Jamaica among the 22 countries surveyed on people's...

Many Jamaican women are not doing routine tests for cervical cancer. That's because the procedure is very invasive and often painful. A Gleaner article was published last Monday with this alarming headline, 'Be gentle, Doc - Medical practitioners...

It seems that members of parliament (MPs) are far more interested in doing community work - building a house here and giving a scholarship there - than they are in policies and laws.The truth is, understandably, many people depend on them for this...

Dionne Jackson-Miller, president of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), is right. The erosion of press freedom can be - and in liberal democracies it often is - insidious - a little like the start to the boil of the proverbial lobster in cold...

Recent judgments favourable to the gay lobby delivered by courts in Belize and Trinidad have caused Jamaica's LGBTQI advocates - including the editor of this newspaper - to get their tails up. They smell victory! And they are jumping for joy in...

In your editorial of April 16, 2018, it was advocated that, at the end of the present IMF programme, Jamaica should engage in another round of oversight with that institution. The editorial posited that, in the past, improvements achieved in the...

Andrew Holness, if his party stays in office long enough, may yet preside over a Jamaican economy growing at five or six per cent a year. But if the credible projections of the International Monetary Fund) are to be believed, that's not for now, or...

On Sunday night at 10:23, someone ran into the back of my car.I immediately jumped out and discovered a man in the middle of the road with his bike strewn beside him. He was wailing in agony, bawling that his leg was broken, and you could see the...