Commentary

It's peculiar that neither the United Kingdom (UK) nor the Jamaican Government has formally confirmed this week's planned official visit to the island by British Prime Minister David Cameron, which ought to be of more than passing significance to...

Last Tuesday's Gleaner reported a 'Tivoli Bombshell'. According to the testimony of an anonymous soldier, "two policemen, without provocation, fatally shot two unarmed young men while they were bound and seated in a detention area, before marching a...

The colour of the red cells in the blood of 11-year-old Akella Lewis was a deep orange. Inasmuch as the political significance of this might have been lost on a GSAT-bound child, this is the one truth that is irrefutable, in a sea of half-truths and...

It may be true that Mrs Vinette Robb-Oddman did not physically place any of the 19 children of Prickly Pole Primary and Infant School in a bus to take them to the scene of a political protest in St Ann last week.But as chairman of the School?s board...

Next month will see the 150th anniversary of the Morant Bay Rebellion. Some historians claim that the word 'rebellion' is too strong, for it really was more like a riot, while others elevate the struggle by calling it the Morant Bay War. I suppose...

Judging by the public response to the images that went viral on social media, the majority of Jamaicans are, like us, shocked and outraged at the barbarity of the recent live butchering of a hawksbill turtle in Alligator Pond, Manchester, by persons...

On Tuesday, the Government of Jamaica signed a memorandum of cooperation with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's minister of international relations and cooperation. Much work has already been done in science and technology, sports and education...