Commentary

This is the final in a series of columns on the Rev Al Miller's audition to play the lead role in Morgan Freeman's biopic.It's time to pull all that we know together and use our lateral thinking skills to work out what really happened. I realise...

People who feared that Michael Lee-Chin may have presumed his hand to be better than the market's and that his assignment was for picking winners will have had their concerns allayed by this week's publication by the Economic Growth Council (EGC),...

As a proponent of the view that there really is such a thing as 'mourning sickness', and that it has an ugly close cousin called 'grief porn', I would like to think of myself as high-mindedly immune to these things.I think of mourning sickness as...

Jamaican nationals have a long history of migration. It is widely believed that more Jamaicans live overseas than the 2.8 million living on The Rock. This comes with a major challenge called deportation. Jamaicans get deported from many countries,...

Let me remind you that the period for early childhood education refers to birth to eight years. This is the period when children's minds are like bits of sponge, ready to absorb what is of interest to them.We know that young children are creative...

Today is Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago. When I think of the past, 'Police and Thief' was the game of my boyhood. Life and concepts were simple then. The police were supposed to catch the thieves. When I went to school in Port-of-Spain, the...

Being a small country has its advantages, like not needing layers of administrative bureaucracy (e.g., federal, provincial, county, municipal) to effectively govern the whole territory.On a relatively small island like Jamaica, with a relatively...

This fiscal year, the Government plans to spend $459.4 billion, or 79% of the Budget, on day-to-day operations such as salaries and utility bills (i.e., recurrent expenditure) and $120.6b, or 21% of the Budget, on long-term development projects and...

It says and means a lot that outside of the Government getting and keeping its fiscal affairs in order, Michael Lee-Chin's Economic Growth Council (EGC) identifies improving people's safety as "the most consequential growth-inducing reform that...