Commentary

I couldn't help but notice The Sunday Gleaner headline of December 6, 2015, 'Major slackness on a minibus - Students still 'lapping up' and 'getting down' on Corporate Area buses'. The authorities have carried out innumerable safety and discipline...

The climate deal that almost 200 countries agreed to in Paris on Saturday was far better than most insiders dared to hope even one month ago.The biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, are finally on board. There is real...

The Gleaner is a family newspaper. Therefore, I expect a certain amount of tact when it's dealing with, let's call them, sensitive topics.So how then does one explain the editorial about Senators Malahoo Forte and Arthur Williams? This was the...

Last Thursday, the lady called me and her voice on the phone indicated urgency. As an ardent People's National Party (PNP) supporter, she wanted to know if I had any recent information on the election call. "I hear the prime minister is going to...

Some of us older folk in Trinidad still refer to bananas as 'figs', even though we know the two fruits are different. My cousin Savi took the easy way out and used the term 'banana figs'. Banana is a fruit all of us in the Caribbean have grown up...

I have great sympathy for anyone in the post of political ombudsman. They have been given a job to do, with both hands tied behind their backs.The politicians ask the political ombudsman to be referee of a political contest in which they have...

Donna Parchment Brown has assumed the position of political ombudsman without as much as an abeng, a blowhorn or a speaker to sound off. For this is the whole duty of the holder of that office - all sound and fury, signifying nothing.Governor...

On December 10, International Human Rights Day, a new constitutional challenge to the Jamaican anti-sodomy law  will be launched in Kingston. This outdated holdover from the British colonial era is a violation of the human rights of lesbian,...

We are yet to be convinced by the Government's arguments in favour of giving to the security minister the power for the unilateral extradition - for that's what it amounts to - of Jamaican citizens who may be apprehended on the high seas on vessels...

On Sunday, President Barack Obama spoke about a mass shooting in the United States for the 17th time in the Past seven years. (There have actually been 335 mass shootings in the United States already this year, but he only does the big ones.) But...