Commentary

In last week's column, I talked about the generalised technophobia expressed by many older media professionals some years ago during a Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation discussion on new media. I said that today, "... with the hindsight of seven...

Ruel Reid, the education minister, is not a man who people tend to find it easy to digest. And he often makes it more difficult with an overbearing pomposity. The reflexive response of some persons, in the circumstance, is to be cynical every time...

As is usually the case with the event, the biennial Diplomatic Day passed last month with the Government feting foreign representatives, but little interest from Jamaicans and an even lesser attempt by the administration to tell them why they should...

When the education transformation effort was conceived around 2004, an understanding was wrought that so vital was education to personal and national development that sector policies should be elevated beyond the all-too-normal partisan squabbles....

When the warning comes from inside, you can't but heed it. In that regard, the observations by Superintendent Gladys Brown-Ellis and what they say about the competence of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and imply about its culture are worthy of...

Use your imagination to picture this if you can: Almost exactly two years ago, triumphant after a fresh victory at the national polls, and before you could holler "Free Werl Bawse!", a senior politician just named as a minister, like a farmer from...

We see it as something of an embarrassment to be discussing hunger in Jamaica and the Caribbean in 2018.But this is the reality, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is to be applauded for focusing on hunger and the plight of the poor...

One thing you know when you hear the name 'Dave' is that you are dealing with pure and total comedy. In fact, the first time I saw Dave was in 1993. I was flabbergasted. Everybody I knew was talking about Dave and they all so wanted to see Dave that...

All's not necessarily well because it ends well. Sometimes there is still work to be done to put things right. So, the fact that Prime Minister Andrew Holness facilitated Bryan Sykes' swearing-in yesterday as Jamaica's chief justice doesn't mean...

Every day, social media users cook up a new word or new use for an existing word. One such is 'triggered', often used on social media to describe someone who gets irrationally hurt or angry about a post on social media. Often such descriptions are...

Bryan Sykes, Jamaica's acting chief justice, faces a conundrum.Last weekend, in a speech at a court-management seminar, he laid out some sensible ideas to improve efficiency in the island's justice system, including the use of technology and a more...