Commentary

Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the Republic of the USA. One of the principal planks of the election campaign was on undocumented immigrants.The analysis of the potential impact should there be mass deportation is just really beginning....

Like with most of the rest of the world, in Jamaica, attitudes to Fidel Castro, especially at the height of his powers, tended towards the extremes. People either loved or loathed him. The emotion that Mr Castro never elicited was indifference.Now...

Against the backdrop of the usual noise associated with political campaigns, a serious message may have been missed this week when the GraceKennedy Foundation renewed its commitment to research work at the University of the West Indies. The...

With all the bashing it has received lately, this is one fight the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) didn't need. The JFF board has now locked horns with Danny Beckford, the outspoken president of the St Ann Football Association.Danny has been...

Now that Justice Martin Gayle has made clear to the authorities that there is no way under the law, as it now exists, to amend the boundaries of a municipality, the Holness administration must take care that in its own craving for partisan advantage...

A book project I'm working on had me trawling the Gleaner archives for information last week because I wanted to get a sense of what the war years were like in 1940s Jamaica. There's nothing I enjoy more than diving into periodical archives, and The...

The Government has approximately taken on board this newspaper's suggestion that it keep in place the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) as a fiscal watchdog and establish whatever new group necessary to monitor other aspects of its...

United States President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will cancel the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on his first day in office (January 20, 2017). That will kill the TPP off for all 12 countries that agreed on it just over a year...

The upcoming local government elections have sparked activity in crevices I never knew could come alive.I have lived in Duhaney Park for six months now, and only since the local government elections were called have I seen signs of life in the PNP...

In its editorial of November 21, The Gleaner asked for more clarity on prospects for the Jamaican dollar. It is, of course, the Government's prerogative to define its policies on this and other economic issues. The IMF is here to support those...