Commentary

I am struggling to think about how I can influence change in the psyche and behaviour of present-day adults so I can assist with safeguarding the future for my child and other people's children.I recently got a taste of the future and it sat sour in...

We don't know precisely who is at fault. It is, however, increasingly clear that, at least in matters of national security, the Holness administration suffers from a crisis of communication and judgement.There was, for instance, the fiasco over the...

When Jamaica's Kamina Johnson Smith and her Caribbean counterparts join fellow Commonwealth foreign ministers on the margins of the UN General Assembly this week, we expect that they will propose a radical adjustment to the agenda to accommodate an...

Anyone who got a copy of The Sunday Gleaner of September 17 would share the range of emotions experienced by the mother of that female student who nearly succeeded in a suicide attempt when she was no longer able to deal with bullying by what I call...

Our society is broken. Crime, violence and corruption are taking a formidable toll on us. If you are a Jamaican living in Jamaica and have never been a victim of a violent crime, it is almost a certainty that you know people who have. We complain...

We live in constant fear of dangerous natural disasters. We all stress out over the 'big one': that massive quake that will bring earth-heaving waves of devastation when the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone suddenly shifts big time. Even much...

In Jamaica, we say, "Man a plan, God a wipe out!" Hurricane Irma was a great equaliser. She marched from the west coast of Africa like so many women in the Caribbean and wreaked havoc. True, she is said to have followed her spouse Harvey, like the...

Mi no wrong Raymond Watson. Im do weh im know how fi do. If yu go pon di Internet an look pon Watson sculpture dem, yu see seh fi im work a weh dem call abstract art. Im no mek no whole heap a people weh look like ordinary people...

Jamaica's 'Talk Di Truth' public-education campaign on youth and ganja use was launched on September 13. Some speakers at the launch used terms and voiced opinions that youth may question if they were paying attention. For example, why use the name...

I am not often big on praising administrators when they come up with ideas to move their sport forward. After all, that is what they are there to do, right? This time I want to make an exception.I take my hat off to the current Jamaica Cricket...

I was in my car, heading east, trying to get ahead of the filthy weather associated with a most assertive, demanding and forward Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) that had already sent out its harbingers of thunder, lightning and big drops of...