Commentary

The superficial nature of the debate on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), especially in the Senate - the Page 1 editorial in the Observer of Friday, October 23, 2015, 'CCJ: How dare you appropriate the people's rights unto themselves', and...

On Friday, November 6, the audit of the Ministry of Health was released and a statement from the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica was published under the headline 'No to Parliament amending campaign finance bill'.These two apparently...

When chik-V attacked me last September, I started going to the Rockfort Mineral Bath every week. The water was therapeutic, but it wasn't warm. I kept thinking I really should go to Bath Fountain where the water is extremely hot. But it was a long...

Everybody calm down.There's too much frenzied excitement, much of it politically motivated, surrounding the latest health-care crisis and altogether too much celebration regarding the sidelining of Fenton Ferguson, a long-time major contributor to...

Crime is rampaging across the country. The Jamaican society cowers in fear. The murderers are in charge.The minister of national security himself cowers in fear without a clue as to what to do next. He flies all over the place seeking suggestions,...

The police are not winning the war on murder, and many people are despairing about who will become the next victim of violence.Criminals appear to have become emboldened, as evidenced by the recent slaying of six members of one family in Hanover,...

The last public address of Norman Manley to the annual conference of the political party he founded contains the following often-quoted statement: "I say that the mission of my generation was to win self-government for Jamaica, to win political...

I refer to the media release by the People's National Party (PNP) and the subsequent statement in Parliament on Tuesday by National Security Minister Peter Bunting, effectively chiding the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and its leader, Andrew Holness,...

It is usually accepted in Jamaica that whenever prime ministers are about to announce an election, they would have long assessed the relative political strengths of the two main parties, but, more than anything else, feel sure that the ruling party...

Dear Mr Cameron, I hear that you want to be our friend, so long as we put behind us the 180 or so years of slavery that your nation imposed on us and which contributed to the advancement...