Commentary

With all the angst about two Japanese performers supposedly taking over the Jamaican music scene by entering local competitions and dominating them (Japanese sound system Yard Beat beating Jamaica's Bass Odyssey in the Boom Sound Clash finals, and...

There was a time when the easiest staircase for upward social mobility was to become a policeman, a nurse, or a teacher. Those were the days before the proliferation of high schools and government scholarships for the brightest among us. The birth...

It's not just Donald Trump. The United States has a long record of negotiating international agreements and then running away from them. The rest of the world has an equally long record of heaving a sigh of regret, telling the Americans it will be...

What do you think of Raymond Watson's Marcus Garvey bust at the University of the West Indies?I am horrified! The money used to facilitate the completion of this piece of h'art (I did that on purpose) would have been better used if it had gone to...

I'd like to address two articles published by The Gleaner recently that are not only appalling for their lack of factual information, but are literally endangering the livelihood of at least one honest, hard-working Jamaican.The stories are 'Two...

Maintaining order in the kingdom has been a burden for those in government since the days when our communities were actual livestock pens, and, likewise, abiding by the whims of a perceived illegitimate authority has been bothersome to those held...

Women. Damn, I love them. They are the most wonderful and fascinating inhabitants of the planet.But why are women so mean to one another? James Brown sang, "It's a man's, man's, man's world," and it's true. Men are in charge of the third rock from...

This is my last-ditch effort to lend my voice to the debate on the definition of rape. I had two patients who were very close friends. They were walking together on the sidewalk of a major thoroughfare close to their homes. Three armed men jumped...

On the night of August 14, 1933, Kingston and lower St Andrew experienced record flooding that killed 53 people and destroyed more than £300,000 of public and private property.The flooding was triggered by heavy rains that had been falling for...

It all started with an email from our MP to the citizens' association offering tickets to an event last Sunday. Gifts from politicians usually come with lots of strings attached. The exchange often goes like this: I'll give you $5,000 wrapped up in...