Commentary

July 1 was International Reggae Day (IRD). Long before February was branded as Reggae Month, a mere seven years ago, Andrea Davis 'sighted' the need to pay annual attention to reggae's global impact. For more than two decades, this energetic...

A political party usually reflects a hierarchy of associates. The degree of relationship is founded on many variables. In Jamaica, historical family ties are significant. "Mi a rockstone Labourite or mi a born socialist." This irrational statement...

The last time the nine justices of the US Supreme Court attracted the world's attention, one member of the Bush family was seeking to become the president of the United States of America. This time around, the Supreme Court, with a five-four...

Once again, water restrictions are in force. It has become an annual ritual, especially for Corporate Area residents, to experience water lock-offs as the effects of below-average rainfall and hot, dry conditions take their toll.In the face of these...

Modern management, whether in the public or private sector, is based on planning - strategic planning. You set goals and targets, then you agree on strategies to get there, then you make your plans, and stick to them.Jamaica is not short of policies...

Being Jamaica's police commissioner can't be easy. When the list of factors that contribute to criminality is long and complex, a police commissioner must feel like Sisyphus ceaselessly rolling a giant boulder of national expectations uphill....

We are not sanguine that the initiatives supposedly being pursued by the Simpson Miller administration to reform local government will lead to any improvement in the operation of Jamaica's municipal authorities. We continue to hold that 14 local...

It is almost a done deal. The House of Representatives has voted to delay local government elections, and by this Friday the Senate will be asked to consider the two bills that will see the due date for the polls being pushed from June 30,...

My grandmother sent me to Miss Sweetie's shop one afternoon after school to buy some items for the day's dinner. As I walked to the shop, I came upon a conversation between Miss Lize (her name must have been shorthand for Elizabeth, but as a boy in...

It's the classic chicken-and-egg employment conundrum droves of university graduates face: employers require that they have work experience, yet no one is willing to hire them so they can get it. With today's competitive job market, how will...

Kudos to The Gleaner for echoing what many have been saying about the urgent need for a new water minister. Robert Pickersgill simply doesn't cut it, and it is frankly annoying to hear his continued hollow announcements about addressing Jamaica's...