Commentary

Horace Chang, who has responsibility for water in Prime Minister Andrew Holness' super ministry for economic growth, recently put a smidgen of flesh on how the Government plans to divest itself of segments of a business that costs taxpayers billions...

I have had a fundamental problem with an aspect of the Lord's Prayer since about 1996. The problem emerged based on a short story I read and a comment made by one of the two characters in the story.I have raised the problem with Christians, secular...

There was a time in Jamaica when filing cabinets would spontaneously burst into flames; when people could mysteriously 'disappear', or 'migrate'; and when important details were left to wither from memory with the advancing infirmity of the mind.In...

Caribbean-American citizens will be voting for the next American president a week from today. Many are already doing so in early voting. They want to make sure their vote is cast and to avoid possible problems on election day.In 2012, they voted...

Last week, the outcome of the X6 murder trial and the fatal stabbing of a Jamaica College student left the nation in mourning. The sorrow that follows death can be intense, especially when the victim is a child, the grief can be complicated and...

When the present Government took office by the slimmest of margins eight months ago, the prime minister spoke of a commitment to transparency and partnership with the Opposition so that the difficult tasks of structural reform in almost every...

Last Friday, I could not leave out as early as usual and my near 50-year-old stereo was tuned in to a local talk-show programme. I heard a talk-show host-turned-minister-turned-talk-show host again talking, from the Institute of Jamaica, about the murder of a 14-year-old Jamaica College student on a bus Wednesday and the apparent lack of concern shown by the other passengers to the crime...

What has happened to the family of Khajeel Mais is disgraceful. After this non-event of the non-trial, I feel our injustice system just declared him an unimportant non-person. Five years after taking a bullet to the head, the police's suspect has...

Khajeel Mais died five years ago and he was killed by a bullet from a 9mm Glock pistol. We know that he was the passenger in a taxicab and seated in the rear, when he met his demise. His family is terribly distraught and miss him immensely. This son...

It was a dark, moonless night. While this is the first sentence of a 1974 Harlequin romance by Anne Mather, it is also the start of an event that took place once upon a time in Sri Lanka and India many, many moons ago. Ravana, who had 10 arms and 10...