Commentary

While Opposition Leader Andrew Holness and his wife, Juliet, are busy constructing their house in Beverly Hills, certain persons are busy constructing a mountain out of a molehill. When I surf the social media landscape, I am amazed that a couple's...

Jamaica is into its annual convulsion over drought and the restrictions on water supplies by the near-monopoly supplier of the commodity, the government-owned National Water Commission (NWC). The country will, of course, muddle through this latest...

For many black Jamaicans, 'Chin' is still the generic name for all Chinese people. It doesn't seem to matter that Chinese Jamaicans have many other names such as Chang, Chuck, Chung, Fong, Kim, Kong, Lee, Leong, Lim, Lue, Mock, Shim, Tenn, Yap, Yee...

The events leading up to May 24, 2010 regarding the president, Michael Christopher Coke, aka 'Dudus', as the country in West Kingston, known as Tivoli Gardens, is being shown on air.This nation was caught up in a series of events from late 2009 up...

It's really a commonsensical decision for the justice ministry to authorise an increase in the daily stipend handed to jurors who help to decide cases in the nation's civil and criminal courts. It is something of a national disgrace that it has...

A politician's lot is not a happy one. Getting involved in politics carries danger for the aspirant's reputation. It is always open season for stalking politicians, and members of parliament are fair game for the hunter who may wound but shed no...

Depending on who you talk to, Stephen Francis is either a genius who has come to put Jamaica's track and field on the map, and should be celebrated at every turn, or he is a selfish, arrogant, unpatriotic coach who couldn't care less about Jamaica's...

The mumbling Noel Arscott had a brief interlude of verbal clarity in the House the other day, in rebutting Desmond McKenzie's accusation that fear drove the Government to postpone municipal elections, perhaps by as much as 18 months.The...

The immediate response to the unjust treatment of Haitian-Dominicans by the government of the Dominican Republic should be a collective one. The opposition to the slated deportation or expulsion of more than 200,000 Haitian-Dominicans is a cause...

Puerto Rico joined Greece in announcing this week that it couldn't pay its debts. As the news sent stock and bond markets tumbling across the planet, a far-off crisis came home to the Caribbean.Puerto Rico and Greece - and our own island, Jamaica,...