Commentary

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour, specifically focusing on how and why animals behave the way they do. (Do not confuse it with Ethnology, or Etiology). It is a branch of Zoology, and I dabbled in it in my undergraduate years...

AS A concerned citizen and an educator, I am addressing the alarming statement attributed to Prime Minister Holness in the June 17, Gleaner article, ‘Golding slams Holness over dismissal of Opposition’s role’. The prime minister is quoted as saying...

BE HONEST. When you read that headline, you instinctively flinched, thinking, “Oh no, not another army man advocating for more curfews, more checkpoints, and more spot checks to block up the traffic”. And that’s understandable. After all, over the...

ANOTHER SCHOOL, another headline. Jamaica’s literacy issue is likely far worse than recent Pembroke Hall or Holy Trinity reports suggest. If we take CSEC rankings as a proxy for literacy, we can assume there are at least 60 schools with similar or...

As Prime Minister Andrew Holness said last week as Jamaica became the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member to accede to the community’s 2022 partnership agreement with the Africa Export Import Bank (Afreximbank), this oughtn’t to be mere...

So Apocrypha’s political guru, Oma D’unn, has had a busy two weeks with Transport Minister Darelaw Vase the centre of attention. Regular readers know Apocrypha, that fantasyland beyond the stars where all politicians are friends and Oma, a retired...

With last week’s important removal of Jamaica and Barbados from the European Union’s (EU’s) list of high-risk countries for money laundering and other global financial crimes, Mia Mottley’s lament over the uncertainties and delays they faced before...

Land in Jamaica is linked to cultural identity and 200 years of injustice. These themes took centrestage at the 17th International Charles Town Maroon Conference, held on Saturday, June 21, in the Asafu Yard, Portland. Maroons, Tainos, government...

No! You cannot! Exactly 40 years ago, as a young conciliator, I conducted a ballot for representational rights, for one of the minor trade unions seeking bargaining rights for workers employed in the Kingston Free Zone. After months of the...

When he was chair of The Gleaner, the late Oliver Clarke was a strong supporter of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). He understood clearly what the CCJ could do to expand access to justice for ordinary Jamaicans. The CCJ shall always remember...

Mia Mottley, the Barbadian prime minister, is right that the unchallenged peddling of false news could pose a threat Caribbean democracy. However, this newspaper looks forward to a fuller explanation of her idea for some kind of regional truth...

It was evening. The guys from my community were sitting under the road “lamp” wasting time when our man who called all the shots and was in charge of everything came out of the nearby hideaways without roads and lights. For me, as I wrote after, “...