Commentary

Some weeks ago, the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) held a public forum on whether there was need for a Press Council in Jamaica to oversee or deal with complaints against journalists and media entities. Titled 'Who's Watching the Watchdog? Media...

Among the Holness administration's commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to pass a Police Service Act to replace the law under which the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) now operates.The letter of intent containing that undertaking...

A week ago, having emerged from an induced coma and appearing to be on the mend from a heart attack, Ian Boyne, a man of deep religious faith, declared himself to be a miracle. It was for the fact that he was alive and looking forward to return to...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to buy authentic brand-name clothes or shoes in Jamaica. The proliferation of counterfeit clothing will require an article by itself, so for today, I am just talking about shoes.Never before have there been so...

Here is a bit of commonsensical advice for the Government. It should immediately halt any idea of returning to the retail market for petroleum products and instruct the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) to pull out of the contract it may have...

In one of the most dramatic front-page stories last week, The Gleaner stirred the conscience of a beleaguered nation. Deeply! Or so I hope.A nation "in a state of anarchy", as described in the accompanying and very sharp editorial. A nation in which...

According to Wikipedia, gender violence, also known as gender-based violence or GBV, is, collectively, violent acts that are motivated by the victim's gender, as a result of inequalities between genders, or that disproportionately affects a certain...

It's rather worrying that whenever we talk about the young men working at the stop lights, it almost always is about "getting rid" of them through some kind of police intervention.Seldom do we interrogate the circumstances that might have led to...

If you line up the corpses, head to toe, of the more than 1,500 people who have been murdered in Jamaica in 2017, they would stretch for nearly two miles. Heading south from Half-Way Tree, the bustling square in the heart of Kingston, they would...

Celebrating Jamaican citizenship is not something we often hear about. Indeed, when polled in the past, a significant number of young Jamaicans expressed high desirability to become citizens of other countries, with particular targets being First-...

This is not a matter primarily about the competence of Aubyn Hill, but it is not an unreasonable question whether Prime Minister Andrew Holness exercised the best judgement in appointing Mr Hill as the executive director of the Economic Growth...

Two weeks ago, I had a conversation with a former national sportsman. He told me how he had fallen on really hard times. He called me out of the blue and was just pouring his heart out. I listened spellbound for an hour or more.We got along well...