Commentary

Guns N' Roses, the American hard rock band, was formed in 1985 and has sold more than 100 million records since then. The band has toured widely and has perhaps travelled as many miles as its record sales, so you would think by now that its members...

Several years ago, I bought property in the Kingston 20 area in what was sold to me by my housing agent as a quiet, growing community, the ideal place to live and raise my family.My neighbourhood is...

Jamaica is clamouring for the Government to develop and publish a comprehensive crime plan that will reduce murders, abductions, rapes, robberies and the like to acceptable levels. And one is needed. But one gets the impression that people believe...

Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is alarmed by the recent spate of sexual violence and child abuse. Over the past four years, roughly 2,500 rapes have been recorded. To combat this, we must embark on a truly multisectoral approach to both eradicating the...

In another place, the action of Sheridan Samuels, the chairman of the Hanover Municipal Council and mayor of the parish's capital, Lucea, might have gone unnoticed. It is what you would expect in the formulation and execution of policy.But given our...

Among the heftiest percentage hike of any programme in the Government's 2017-18 Budget is the additional J$215 million - a 44 per cent increase to J$704.3 million - the labour and social ministry plans to spend on the administration of the National...

Preventative detention contains all the ingredients needed to escalate hate, disputes and vindictiveness in domestic relations.The recent announcement by the Government that such of policy will be pursued and implemented by the police is not the...

Recently, I encountered a survey on Twitter concerning sex education, specifically the role of parents. The question presented was: “Growing up, were your parents/guardians your main go-to source for information about sex?” Three hundred and...

It is said there was a time in the not-so-distant past when Jamaica was considered to be the Pearl of the West Indies. Romanticised in song and script, culturally, and socially, it appeared as though this island in the sun took the lead, setting a...

We are happy for Robert Montague's explanation about what the proposed use by the police of preventative detention is not, or ought not, to be."... (It) doesn't mean throwing a person into a lock-up and closing the cell," the national security...