Commentary

If there is one policy issue that has differentiated Andrew Holness from his predecessor Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) prime ministers, it is his posture towards regional integration, in particular Jamaica's membership in the Caribbean Community (...

I'm watching this manufactured controversy about the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination programme and hoping it doesn't impede an obviously good initiative. I mean, when I heard and read some of the anti-vaccination commentary, I began drafting...

In July, I decided I'd had enough of FLOW's off-the-air cable channels. So I did radical surgery and cut back cable, Internet and phone service. I was so pleased with myself when I got my September bill. It was cut in half. My joy didn't last. In...

Another schoolboy is dead. Another life wasted. This is all-too-familiar news with multiple incidents of school violence being reported from parish to parish, with regularity. The life of a 15-year-old student came to a violent end during an...

Jamaicans like to pretend they were innocent well-behaved children as they justify the corporal punishment meted out to our children. And, if they were beaten or 'did get tie up inna ants' nest', they claim it made them...

The programme to vaccinate all 12-year girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) has run into not unexpected mass opposition, not the least because of the Government's failure to clearly communicate motive to the Jamaican populace.Fuel has been...

Lisa Hanna's embarrassing stumble on her first outing as the shadow foreign minister is not fatal, but it highlights the accidents to which politicians are especially susceptible when they chase after shiny objects rather than embrace substance....

A woman 'hawks' and spits on the pavement. She slaps her chest a couple times as if to loosen the congestion in the area before 'hawking' and spitting again, this time sending a gob of mucus crashing into the ground, landing right beside her...

"You see my daughter, Karen, who I went to the luncheon for? She might be a senior vice-president at JPMorgan Chase now, but don't think it did always look like she was going to turn out the right and proper way."At one time, it look like she was...

These past few weeks in the magical land of Trumpistan, we saw new limits set for the borders of political and cultural correctness as the president cracked his whip at NFL players, sending them into a moral panic and causing unprecedented numbers...