Commentary

Last Monday morning, just as I was trying to come to terms with a likely clash between numbers coming out of the Bill Johnson and Don Anderson polls and the mix of seething anger and voting silence among the electorate, I received calls from two...

I note and appreciate your letter to Prime Minister David Cameron on the matter of reparations.But your letter is a few decades late, as I do not recall any aggressive effort on your part, as prime minister, to extend the cause of reparations....

I can't put this prison thing down. It's the first time since writing articles that I've dedicated two weeks to the same topic. However, I feel I must.The minister of national security had a live question-and-answer session last Thursday in an...

Peter Bunting's suggestion for the use of the voter identification fingerprint database in crime detection deserves a far more serious hearing than the fatuous opposition with which the idea has so far been received. He has been accused of, among...

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) does not allow for adequate sleep - rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM). People of all ages need about eight hours sleep at nights. During sleep, the body rests, boosts the immune system...

The Don Anderson RJR/TVJ poll, published on October 8, 2015, found that the main problem Jamaicans feel the political parties need to address is unemployment. And rightly so. What our people need to better understand is the connection between...

Every so often, the 'Gangs of Gordon House' do something that raises hope for their redemption. Unfortunately, they mostly either reverse course or fail to pursue their actions to the point of substantial and transformative benefit to the society....

Executing public policy often requires reconciling competing and, sometimes, apparently contradictory interests. In the circumstances, policymakers are more likely to give greater weight to what can be practically achieved and be of greatest value...

So often recently I've been reflecting on how important it is that public figures measure their speech carefully and cautiously to avoid misunderstanding.Consider Madame de Gaulle. When former British PM Harold Macmillan paid a visit to French...