Commentary

In an Associated Press article, 'Imagining a Trump administration? Count on unpredictability', Nancy Benac writes that Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump likes to complain."We talk too much," and "We're totally predictable ... . I...

Twenty years ago, I used to be extremely concerned at the many pockets of idle young men hanging out on street corners and in community hamlets doing nothing more than smoking weed and planning their next sexual conquest.The years have passed and...

William Mahfood has sensibly walked back from his call for a trade boycott of Trinidad and Tobago, but we don't believe that the "clarification" of his sentiments suggests a sufficiently thoughtful response to what is perhaps a real problem by an...

The Gleaner's editorial of Sunday, March 6, 2016 titled 'Bankable numbers, please' examines the proposed adjustments to the income tax regime in Jamaica. Most of the editorial, like almost all the discussion around this proposal, focuses on the...

The most striking feature of last week's forum, hosted by this newspaper, on the umpteenth crisis facing Jamaica's sugar industry is that almost all the bigwigs present dumped on the Chinese.According to Derick Heaven, who used to be chairman of the...

Finally, after Aung San Suu Kyi founded the National League for Democracy (NLD) in 1988, after she won the 1990 election by a landslide, after the military ignored the results and put her under house arrest for 15 of the next 21 years, after a...

Does the thinking public need any more proof that the $18,000 vote-buying scheme was hatched to manipulate the gullible, then, without due diligence, rushed to the consumer?The country was assured, repeatedly, that the plan had been carefully...

Given the choice between exercising patience with a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government that has been in office for a little over a month and an opposition leader whose story about her party's recent defeat seems conveniently made up, I am willing...

If Jamaica is to continue its borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) beyond April 2017, some fundamental changes would have to take place in the programme.The structural benchmarks and quantitative targets we have achieved...

We would go into Maharaj Snackette or Bar in Siparia, the town in the deep south of Trinidad in which I grew up, and invariably on a Friday night when the oil field workers got paid, there would be at least one man drinking straight puncheon or...

Even as I congratulate Senator Kamina Johnson Smith on her recent appointment as minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, to say I am disappointed with the Government on the non-selection of a minister specifically for diaspora affairs is an...