Commentary

We are grateful for the interest by members of the Black Caucus of the US Congress in Jamaica's economic welfare. Jamaica has benefited from their concern, such as in 2013 when, with the country shut out of the credit markets and running out of...

Noted attorney-at-law Linton Gordon presented a plethora of perverse arguments in his article, ‘Gays and the Jamaican economy’ (Sunday Gleaner, July 12, 2015). Mr Gordon posited that “the Supreme Court of the United States of...

Policewoman Crystal Thomas died Tuesday while trying to live her organisation's motto, 'To Serve, Protect and Reassure', on a fateful bus ride in Kingston while she and others were heading home.Constable Thomas is now part of the damning statistics...

Those who perceive in Greece a martyr to be emulated, and propose an overhaul of Jamaica's agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will now latch on to the Fund's declaration that the Greek debt is unpayable and in need of substantial...

The news caught most of us by surprise. Alvas Powell, we are told, has walked out of the Gold Cup squad because he was not satisfied with his playing time.Alvas was not used at all in the first two games against Costa Rica and Canada and was only...

You scent danger for an economy when politicians believe they are better at allocating resources, including private people's own, than markets. Jamaica's leaders attempted that trick for the better part of half a century with mostly unhappy results...

The call by Opposition Leader Andrew Holness for a growth czar has been rejected by Prime Minister (PM) Portia Simpson Miller as unnecessary since, according to her, the entire Cabinet is responsible for ensuring that growth in the economy takes...

My generation is very impatient. We like the microwave life of instant meals and instant gratification. I'm just the weather girl, with no sports authority, but from what I've observed, I'd say the forecast for Test cricket looks grim.Work in a...

Those who berate Peter Phillips for adhering to the terms of the International Monetary Fund bailout agreement, basked in the outcome of Greece's referendum, and urged Jamaica to hold its own plebiscite on economic reforms need to take a cold, hard...

I believe Bill Cosby's accusers. At least, most of them. Even if some may have lied or embellished their stories, it is highly unlikely that more than 40 women would have just concocted sordid tales to bring him down.Many of these women do not know...