Commentary

We hope the Opposition is serious about not turning the recent deaths at the Victoria Jubilee maternity hospital, of at least seven newborn babies from sepsis, into a political danse macabre, even though we support their call for a full accounting...

The police, to their credit, were far faster than the Government in offering specific responses to the findings of the Simmons commission of enquiry into the Tivoli Gardens operation, as well as agreeing to an administrative review into the conduct...

The recent impact of Hurricane Matthew across the region is a reminder that, occasionally, Mother Earth likes to let us know that she is in charge. The planet is subject to periodic natural phenomena over which we humans have little control. This...

It could be coincidence, if you believe in that sort of thing, but I happen to know a guy named Mathew who works in construction. Just the other day, he was telling me how he became stranded in the country late one evening when the car broke down....

No one could credibly question the quality of leadership of the task force that Portia Simpson Miller has appointed to monitor implementation of the recommendations of the group that examined the People's National Party's (PNP) campaign for last...

Television has been the most powerful and impactful medium over the last 60 years and it is firmly established as part of our culture. In the US, and most likely...

The residents of a Manchester community took last week's hurricane warnings seriously and assessed their risk. People in Mile Gully concluded that the greatest danger their community faced was enormous disruption and inconvenience to residents if...

No one took Noel Arscott seriously when he was a minister of government. That is unlikely to have improved now that he is in opposition.So, people are expected to have a good laugh about his prognostications on local government elections, whenever...

President Juan Manuel Santos was not obliged to hold a referendum to ratify the deal to end 60 years of war between the Colombian government and FARC. It was held because both Santos and the FARC leaders thought a referendum victory would make it...

As I write this column on Monday evening, Jamaicans are exhaling in relief after a very tense weekend of manic preparations for a hurricane that never came.In the interim, hurricane humour ruled social media, starting with the response to my fearful...