Commentary

With recent announcements, tariffs continue to be on the minds of all the USA’s trading partners, including those in CARICOM. Let us be clear on what is a tariff, as there still seems to be a lack of clarity in the USA, though the reality seems to...

It ought to no longer be possible for the world, especially the major powers of the West, to deny or blind their moral conscience to the humanitarian outrage, by whatever name it is called, being perpetrated by Israel against the people of Gaza....

In August 2008 an e-mail popped up from then Gleaner Opinion Editor Colin Steer asking me to write a regular weekly Column for The Gleaner. It came out of the blue, like Thunderstorm Artis’s wife. I didn’t know Colin. He didn’t know me....

It’s a good thing, or so we think, that the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), the government’s data collection agency, will conduct a census of people with disabilities. After all, governments need good population and demographic data to...

Start with the realities foisted on the world by the Emperor recently. What was the point about the on-then-off-then- maybe tariffs except to preen and embed universal distrust ? After the tirade about China’s unfair conduct, what was the point...

Jamaica’s housing dream is a nightmare for over 12,000 families each year. Prices are soaring, supply is dwindling, and bigger loans will increase demand. There aren’t enough affordable homes. Government should expect that raising the NHT loan...

On April 24 United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on seabed mining which has major implications for the work of the International Seabed Authority, based in Kingston, Jamaica. The authority as well as most states in the...

“Machine!” said the fifth former looking admiringly at the car arriving onto the school compound. An undergraduate on the plantation, said “Nice car, sir,” a comment replicated at a deep rural school, with an over-representation of social...

Mayor Andrew Swaby’s suggestion that the three by-elections for vacant divisions in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) be held at the same time as the imminent vote for the national government is quite sensible and should be...

“A nation without borders is not a nation.” That is the opening line of an advisory issued by the US Department of State on May 15. It goes on to say, “Our government prioritizes the prosecution of offences for illegal entry and illegal presence in...

Jamaica has taken a significant step forward with the tabling of the National School Nutrition Policy (SNP) in the Senate on May 9. This policy sets out clear principles and actions to promote healthy eating in all Jamaican schools, and aims to...

The national outrage, including Prime Minister Andrew Holness’, over last week’s sexual assault and murder of nine-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon, was hardly surprising. This violation of Little Kelsey – whose presumed attacker was subsequently killed by...