Commentary

If Prime Minister Andrew Holness is able to muster the will, he would ban all year-end parties by government ministries and agencies, declare Jamaica to be in a state of anarchy, and recall Parliament from its Christmas holiday for an urgent debate...

Art has been in the headlines globally, regionally and locally in the last few weeks. On the global stage, Christie's mid-November auction featuring a long-lost work by Leonardo da Vinci, 'Salvator Mundi', was very much in the news especially after...

I'm going to insist that every single one of my future children learns Mandarin. They are going to 'Ni Hao' and sweet and sour chicken with the best of them because my child will not be left behind. Arming my children with the world's most widely...

One of my favourite recordings is Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale.Matthew Fisher's haunting Hammond Organ dominates the song, so few pay attention to the lyrics. If they do, their heads spin. I've always understood this strange song's origin to...

Peter Phillips, the opposition leader, has cracked a window to a potential political cleansing that, thus far, has been little noticed, but shouldn't be allowed to pass.So, not only ought not Dr Phillips be allowed to retreat from his idea for the...

I felt certain that I was developing cataracts because now, much more than ever, I find that I'm dazzled by the glare of approaching motor vehicle lights. I was, therefore, very relieved when my ophthalmologist gave me the all-clear in a visit...

PM Holness has apologised for something, though I'm not sure exactly what. It has to do with the Dudus debacle and the Tivoli bloodbath, but beyond that, it's hard to say. He did not confess. In fact, based on a Gleaner report, he stated, "I have a...

I have a love-hate relationship with many entities in the service industry. Bars, hotels, and restaurants are among the places I enjoy patronising for leisure or work, but they are also the places that cause me a lot of...

"You like knives so much, why don't you write a column about them?" my wife asked pointedly. "I'll take a stab at it," I answered sharply, "and try to make it a cut above the rest."It is like when the rumour went around about an actress who had...