Commentary

A potentially positive, if perhaps unintended, outcome of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's retreat from a general election this year is that it gives the political parties more time to vet their candidates to ensure that they are fit and...

An enquiry, or a commission, is oftentimes said to be a leader's method of delegating his/her conscience to a group of people, rather than making the bold and needed corrections that are needed to remedy the situation.This, by the way, may mean or...

No one saw this coming. Juliet Holness, wife of Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, is now almost certain to be confirmed as Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker in the somewhat troubled East Rural St Andrew seat, where she will face off with the...

I ordinarily hear from people that they respect "only a few politicians". Not I. I respect most of them, admire some, and wonder if a streak of insanity (or, depending on the case, desperation) isn't part of offering oneself for the brutalisation...

Traditionally, we experience the Christmas breeze, a cooling gust that tends to reassure that the season to come can be enjoyed with less stress. The winds of change have begun to blow across the political landscape.It is generally accepted that...

New governments come into town, their guns blazing, not literally like the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, but more like the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They had already won the war but...

In a country like ours where thousands are unemployed or unemployable, entrepreneurship is well and alive in the form of street vendors peddling an assortment of wares to eke out a living to take care of their families. Street vending has long been...

For much of the last two weeks, there has been a raging discussion on sports shows in Jamaica as to whether the talented St George's College striker, Alex Marshall, should now be included in the senior Reggae Boyz squad.The youngster is generally...

RECENTLY, WE were sufficiently confident about the advancement of politics in Jamaica to question the private sector’s unease with elections in the country and campaigning for them. There was no reason, we felt, why this exercise in democracy should mean a slowdown, or freeze, of economic activity...