Commentary

The Jamaican Parliament and Senate have each passed the campaign-finance bill in the first go-round. I don't often agree with party hacks, but I share entirely the sentiments of government senator Lambert Brown that the bill being considered was a "...

It should have happened long ago. We are, therefore, glad that the amendment to the law for the operation of the resident magistrate's courts was squeezed into the last day's work of the House, rather than dying with the Parliament, hopefully to be...

The sea of orange-clad supporters of the ruling PNP on Sunday had to have been intimidating to an opposition JLP that wants to take away its power. Add to that the levels of organisation and funding that fuelled the massive crowd and it would have...

When Michael Harvey studies to become, and by the time of his eventual ordination as a minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he would have to become aware, if he didn't know what he was getting into, of the canons of that organisation and...

Young people don't join political parties because they don't offer any real change. If they join at all, it's because it's a great joke to tell a friend.Young people are disillusioned with electoral politics and political parties and feel let down...

Whatever may be Jamaica's problems - and there are many - it has a significant strength: institutions of democracy that are sound. They have fallen under stress and have bent, but never break. When Jamaicans vote for their government, they know,...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Zika virus "is now spreading explosively" in the Americas, and it has been estimated that between three and four million people will be infected in the region over a 12-month period....

As you read this, two national election campaigns in two different countries are being staged in front of the eyes of those who choose to watch. In one country with a fixed election date, the would-be presidential candidates are being grilled by...

Last week, as he accepted his award as the Gleaner Man of the Year, Peter Phillips looked around the room, then quipped: "Today's function gave me a feel of the enormous potential of the Jamaican people."We understood what he meant. We felt the same...

Two Saturdays ago, I took part in a cleanup of the beach along the Palisadoes strip. There were about 50 of us and we collected 60 huge bags of garbage in just about two hours. We left the toilet and microwave oven that someone had deposited on the...