Commentary

Andrew Holness has cleared a hurdle. Yet, there is no certainty that he is now safe and the problems of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are settled. The situation, therefore, still demands extraordinary leadership from Mr Holness and a willingness to...

I've stopped listening to radio's tiresome and uninformed horse-racing coverage.One Gleaner-affiliated radio station treats listeners to a weekly whine about the claiming system, giving the impression that, if only handicapping returned, racing...

On March 16, civil society held a press conference to present its unanimous position on the Riverton fire. To resolve this decades-old problem, it proposed that a committee modelled on the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) and on the...

I saw an elderly patient who related her disturbing tale of woe to me. She lives in a community where the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company Limited is attempting to 'regularise' its customers.Stealing electricity is rampant, and it costs the JPS...

The death of Singapore's founding leader Lee Kuan Yew has revived one of Jamaica's old what-if debates. The facts are well-known. At Independence, Jamaica and Singapore stood shoulder-to-shoulder in per-capita income. Today, we've lost sight of them...

Grudgingly, we admire Jennifer Edwards for her gall. Few people in her position would be brazen enough to have taken her former employers to court, attempting to cling to their job. They would, instead, be slinking away.Not Jennifer Edwards.For the...

In his song Bad Card, Bob Marley boasted, "Dem a go tired fi see mi face." Of course, this mocking threat did not mean that Marley was going to be tired of his own popularity. The very opposite!Like many a Jamaican star boy, Bob was throwing words,...

The Constitution of Jamaica was tabled in Parliament in July 1962. It sprang to life on August 6, 1962. It has remained largely as crafted with one major exception.As the supreme law of the land, endowed with all our collective and singular rights,...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) wishes to respond to the recent claim by Opposition Spokesman on Finance Audley Shaw that the early childhood sector is operating in an "ad-hoc" manner.In keeping with the Government's strategic goal to improve...

We are somewhat puzzled by reports that the senior medical officer of health for the Corporate Area, presumably acting in the name of the Ministry of Health, has initiated court action against the local government ministry over its handling or, more...

With the Court of Appeal having ruled against him in the senate-seats saga, Andrew Holness is again at a hard place. His leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is under threat, and there are serious questions about whether the party will be a...

Last Tuesday, Phillip Paulwell apologised to the Jamaican people for the assault occasioning bodily harm caused by the wholly preventable fires at the Riverton dump; but he did not apologise wearing any of those official, constitutional, statutory...