Commentary

The Government of Jamaica has entered into a new arrangement with the IMF. This is not a balance-of-payments facility, as any funds that would be disbursed would be triggered by unforeseen circumstances such as a natural disaster and any other...

The latest numbers for the construction industry are encouraging, with the Bank of Jamaica pointing to positive growth for the June-September quarter. Details of this performance should make encouraging reading for the Holness administration, since...

The political commentators have observed that the campaign of the People's National Party (PNP) leading up to this week's local government elections lacked energy. The JEEP had run out of gas, perhaps. It takes cash to run elections and to buy...

LIKE MOST of the rest of the world, Jamaica has made great strides in combating HIV/AIDS since the infection was first reported here nearly three and a half decades ago. The disease is no longer an automatic death sentence.That, in part, is the...

In October 2016, just before Heroes Day, the current Government passed a bill expunging the criminal records of four national heroes, as well as those of their 'sympathisers, supporters and participants by association', in the rebellions they led....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are understandably pleased and are making much that they won the majority of the municipal councils in Monday's local government elections. But they have no real cause for self-...

While the auction component of the central bank's proposed new foreign-exchange system is the subject of substantial scrutiny and some apprehension, another pertinent and, on the face it, potentially positive element of its future engagement has...

A nation is the creature of our collective consciousness. We elect influencers who indelibly imprint norms into our culture through their leadership.Those endowed with the power to influence this society are, therefore, vessels of our culture that...