Commentary

National Road Safety Month received a huge slap in the face with Tuesday's horrific accident on the Llandovery main road, which claimed four young lives. Weeks earlier, an overloaded, defective public passenger vehicle that was being driven by an...

Bullying is not a novel term. It has always been classified as antisocial behaviour that has existed for centuries, but this generation is perhaps the first to grapple with a different form of bullying.One might be...

There has been a lot of focus on the JLP campaign promise of what has come to be called '1.5', the promise that no one earning $1.5 million per annum will pay any income tax. That was pure populism.But for me, the more far-reaching and game-changing...

Among the things previously known, but reinforced by and ought to be learned from the findings of the West Kingston commission of enquiry is how not to manage an extradition request by a foreign government for an alleged criminal. It mustn't be like...

In Jamaica, English reigns supreme on the patios of the privileged while patois Patwa rules the street. Touting itself as an English-speaking polity (the only official language of the country), disregard for Patwa, the first language of many...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness deserves commendation for the significant move he has made towards transparency in his personal finances, notwithstanding the greater clarity about his assets and liabilities for Jamaicans to be fully assuaged about the...

Job creation has been identified as a thing so important in Jamaica that the prime minister has seen it fit to hug it up under his bosom. As he should. The difficulty is that in the super Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, the focus has...

In most respects, the West Kingston commission of enquiry didn't tell Jamaicans much that they didn't already know.The events of May 2010 in Tivoli Gardens, however, allowed the commissioners to lay out the issue in graphic and chilling detail: of...

According to the CIA World Factbook, Jamaica has an estimated total population of 2,950,210. And, between the ages of 25 to 64 (the so-called productive years), we have 619,424 males. An indeterminate number of our males are not real (stand-up) men...

Caribbean youth want a better life and are eager to migrate to find it. Meanwhile, many escape via life online. A mobile phone is the most prized possession of many Caribbean youth. As far as technological innovation goes, “the digital...