Commentary

According to Robert Morgan, the works minister, Jamaica was early in preparing for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Which makes sense. The Government doesn’t want a repeat of last year, when it bore the brunt of the blame for the effects of...

Statistics can sometimes distort, or underplay, reality. In Mike McCallum’s case they did. His suggests that he was an excellent boxer: 55 fights, 49 wins, five losses, one draw. Thirty-six, or 73 per cent, of his victories were by knockouts. He...

Trauma is an emotional response to a stressful event. These events include not only childhood traumas such as abuse, neglect, exposure to dysfunction in the home and community, bullying, accidents, natural disasters and armed conflicts, but also...

Given his previous public interventions on contentious matters before the agency – especially relating to Prime Minister Andrew Holness – Dennis Chung oughtn’t to be surprised that his appointment as head of the Financial Investigations Division...

The 16 year-old Grade 10 student leaned over the principal’s desk where he had been brought for correction because of chronic absenteeism, bullying, fighting and failing grades, his trousers hitched at his thighs. “Who you live with? Where are your...

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies has the potential to transform the Jamaican engineering sector. From infrastructure development and energy systems to manufacturing and agriculture, these...

The disclosure that the United States plans to send home nearly 4,000 Jamaicans as part of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown raises questions of how well prepared is the Government to accept the deportees, including what checks it has done, or...

The imposition of across-the-board tariffs by the United States on all trading partners marks a major shift in the international trade environment. The Bretton Woods trading system, initiated by the United States (US) at the end of World War II,...

Jamaica has a non-profit, non-denominational, non-political organisation for retired persons. Its mission is “To work towards ensuring that the vast talent, experience and wisdom of seniors will be respected. To ensure that our seniors will enjoy...

When Russian drones stalk civilians along Ukraine’s Dnipro River and Gaza’s hospitals lie in ruins under relentless bombardment, the world cannot pretend that these are distant crises. Yet, the UN Security Council, which is entrusted to uphold...

I would love to run an experiment in the upcoming general election. I would love to swap the names of the two candidates running for office in my constituency to Drake Bell and Josh Peck and see what happens. Drake would be the Jamaica Labour...

It isn’t clear if the Pharmacy Council of Jamaica (PCJ) has, as a regulatory body, formally complained to the island’s medical council over alleged ethical – and potentially dangerous – breaches by doctors in selling medicines to their patients....