Commentary

I recall watching an African-American stand-up comedian several years ago giving his impression of America’s first black president delivering his inaugural address. In his delivery, he kept jumping from side to side and ducking, in an attempt to...

Jamaica is a place with a peculiar concentration of heroic folk, ordinary people who demonstrate extraordinary abilities in dreadful times such as these. Something about this land, its history and its people has imbued the inhabitants of these...

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has not publicly said if it has, or will, take up the constabulary's invitation to appoint a member to the panel to review, among other things, the conduct of police personnel who the Simmons Commission accused of...

So this will be an uphill battle when I address the recent big discussion topics: whether Brits made an error in voting to leave the EU, so called Brexit, and whether Portia should continue as PNP leader, so called Pexit.Regarding Brexit, I don't...

The relationship of Jamaica with its Caribbean neighbours in a regional organisation was first publicly discussed at a conference in Montego Bay in 1947, called by the British secretary of state, Arthur Creech Jones, to discuss the question of...

One hundred years ago, on July 8, 1916, the now obscure Jamaica Times newspaper published a letter written by Marcus Garvey. It was while researching for the book 'The Richest Man in Jamaica', a story of Raglan Phillips...

If the rambunctious Everald Warmington can deliver on his promise to have potholes fixed within 48 hours of being prepared for rehabilitation, he could be celebrated as the government member with the best understanding of what customer service is...

We have been credibly informed that Roderick Rainford is alive and in reasonably good health. So, too, is Byron Blake. For those who do not know, Messrs Rainford and Blake are distinguished Jamaicans.But more relevant to the specific circumstance,...