Commentary

On Sunday, Andre Wright of the Gleaner wrote an article titled 'Samuda's land grabbers'. It was filled with so many painful truths that needed to be said. Truths about politicians, the garrison communities they are in charge of, and how they have no...

The concept of rehabilitation appears to be lost on us collectively. While progress has been made to improve the treatment of prisoners, the orientation of our system and the mindset of the security apparatus continue to be focused on punishment...

With a growing number of students in our Jamaican school system having been diagnosed with learning disabilities, we should be absolutely concerned that the Inter-Secondary Schools' Sports Association (ISSA) has continued to impose an academic bar...

You can't but support Parliament's amendment - approved by the Senate last Friday - of the National Insurance Act, reducing to three, from five years, the period for mandatory actuarial reviews of the scheme.For as the labour and social security...

Former prime Minister Edward Seaga has used my statement about the People's National Party (PNP) being a democratic socialist party and the PNP's need to figure out how we give expression to that ideology, within the context of our current economic...

I am appalled at the ease with which criminals, squatters and political misfits can get away with things in Jamaica. By now, every reading person in Jamaica knows that the root of our crime stems from divisive politics which has mushroomed into a...

The lord, on his high bench, pronounced last week that the family of a slain schoolboy should desist from waking the town and telling the people of the indignities they have suffered along the circuitous quest for justice in the death of their child...

Recently, I had the opportunity to address the Association of Principals and Vice-principals of High Schools in Jamaica. These are persons, mostly women, with responsibility for the outcomes of our young people between grades seven and 13,...

Last week, I was mindful of Mark Twain's observation that if you give a man the reputation of being an early riser, he can comfortably sleep till noon every day and nobody will bother to notice. That's the power of reputation, and I thought about it...

It is not just the Holness administration's embrace of the economic reform project that was under way when it came to office - including its decision to enter into a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund - that is shoring up our...