Commentary

A unilateral constitutional power is held by the prime minister of the right to call elections at any time within the constitutional period. This right can be exercised by a prime minister to control dissidents who may upset the cohesiveness of the...

Like most of us, Richard Albert, who died on Monday, aged 69, confronted personal demons. He may not have always immediately, or permanently, conquered them. Which embellished his humanity in ways that transcended doctrinal faith and his Catholicism...

Confusion seems rife regarding the benefits of a fixed election date.Fears have been expressed that fixing the election date would put the country on pause for 12 months every fourth or fifth year. This real concern, albeit born of a natural...

As a boy in the 1970s, I once became scared that soon I wouldn't have enough food to eat and place to walk on earth, for the United Nations and some liberals had forecast that with rapid population increase, we would soon run out of food and space....

When most of the individuals who guide and advise the health minister are hard-wired to work with 'the system', no matter how bad it is, things are bound to go wrong.Health ministry workers are often forced to accept chronic substandard...

Parliament is currently debating a set of proposed amendments to the Representation of the People Act in relation to political campaign finance on account of recommendations from the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ).By convention, Parliament...

Given that the statute of limitations hasn't yet elapsed, we assume that it is still open for Paula Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), to prefer charges against Shernet Haughton, the former chairman of the Hanover Parish Council,...

In the 1960s as the JLP Government bulldozed the mother of all slums - Back O Wall - displaced the dirt-poor, predominantly PNP population who had to fend for themselves elsewhere, and replaced the slum with concrete high-rises and some standalone...

All right, I was watching an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies one time when some of Jed Clampet's old friends came to Beverly Hills and saw that he was living in splendour. What a controversy! Dem vex! So 'bad mind' is serious ting, and I'm not...

It is heartening to hear of positive developments in the interest of children who are being cared for by the State. Finally, it seems an integrated approach is being adopted to modernise childcare services by tackling their educational, health and...

American journalist Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) coined the expression, "Politics makes strange bedfellows." Helen Thomas, a columnist, disagreed and insisted, "War makes strangebedfellows."The German general and strategist, Carl von Clauzewitz...