Commentary

Whole heap a people a nyam up demself bout di history lesson weh di teacher a Hillel gi di grade nine student dem. Im tell dem fi study di weapon dem weh di wicked white people dem did tek an torture black people. Mi no see...

Technological innovation and automation are accelerating at a blistering pace, so much so that fears of a dystopian future in which machines and artificial intelligence displace human workers are becoming commonplace.But a future of robots and...

Words uttered by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes suggest the promising emergence of a transformative shift in the way business will be conducted in the nation's courts.If Mr Sykes has his way, inordinate delays in getting cases to trial and delivering...

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers starts, "Numbers have exercised their fascination since the dawn of civilisation. Pythagoras discovered that musical harmony depended on the ratios of small whole numbers and concluded that...

There are several current topics which demand public comment. This week's column is a potpourri.More needs to be said on the granting of indemnity from prosecution to low-ranked Jamaican soldiers known to have invaded the home of a private Jamaican...

Neither surprisingly nor unreasonably, Peter Bunting is being battered for signing, six years after the fact and on the eve of a general election a declaration to the effect that the three soldiers accused of murdering Keith Clarke acted in "good...

Having at first said no to the meeting between Theresa May and Caribbean leaders to discuss the burgeoning humanitarian crisis over Britain's recent treatment of the Windrush generation of West Indian migrants, Downing Street eventually woke up to...

I write in response to Maurice Tomlinson's suggestion, in relation to anti-sodomy laws that the British government should apologise "for leaving them when they departed." It seems to me that Britain should be commended for its past wisdom in having...

Fifteen months ago when Caleb Orozco succeeded in his challenge against Belize's buggery law, we hoped that it was the start of "a forceful headwind" that would blow away from elsewhere in the Caribbean these antiquated, fire-and-brimstone laws that...

Whenever something bad occurs, we always want to know what happened. It's not necessarily morbid curiosity, it's usually the need to have all the possible details so that we can avoid the same situation that ended in disaster for someone else.So,...