Commentary

There has been much to say about education, with specific reference to attendance and punctuality in the last few weeks, emanating from The Gleaner articles of June 12 and 18, respectively. I would like to add my voice to the narrative, given my...

Matthew Samuda is on the hunt for the truth buried in the murky underbelly of Jamaican politics. Or is he?In an impassioned presentation during last Friday's sitting of the Upper House, Senator Samuda called for a "truth and reconciliation...

Last week, we learnt about Audley Shaw's $8,000,000 phone bill. Allow me to dwell on the subject for just a moment more. Yes, these things are often soon forgotten, but I'm still within the nine-day wonder window. Humour me.Can you imagine coming...

The Gleaner, through its editorial on July 15, 2017, expressed alarm at poor investment choices by governments over the years that largely have had a deleterious impact on the poor and pointed to the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium and the Montego...

In 2014 when Arnaldo Brown, former minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in the People’s National Party (PNP) administration, racked up a million-dollar phone bill, there was a huge outcry, and rightly so. Our...

The teachers from one of the summer schools we are sponsoring in Central Kingston came in distress on Friday. "So many of the high-school teenagers between 10 and 14 cannot read," they lamented. "It will be very difficult to offer them the...

Audley Shaw bears the great bulk of the responsibility for the humongous telephone bill with which he burdened taxpayers, before giving them an ease by paying some of it and wheedling a rollback of a portion from his service provider. But it is not...

The Gleaner editorial of July 6, 2017 has mischaracterised the role that successive members of parliaments have played in respect of their chairmanship of the Arnett Gardens Football Club. According to The Gleaner, it is "a manifestation of how...