Commentary

Foreign policy has figured little, so far, in the simmering campaign for Jamaica’s general election, which has to be held by the end this year. But it’s a proverbial elephant in the room, particularly in how Jamaica navigates its relationships with...

The timing of The Metals Company’s (TMC’s) disclosure would have precluded the matter making it to the agenda of last week’s talks between Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Nonetheless, Mr Holness, and indeed...

When since is the United States government so solicitous about the welfare of Cuban workers even though they have persecuted that nation for over 60 years? And when since are the great Americans so concerned about our spiraling debt to the Chinese...

The nutritional yield of our agricultural crops is being depleted by decades of poor farming practices. Our soil has heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants from [manmade] pesticides. In the long term, our soil, and therefore farming...

Over the years, there have been calls for both major political parties, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and People’s National Party (PNP), to enact legislation to allow Jamaicans in the diaspora to vote from abroad. The issue has been in public...

In the face of the bunglings and disenfranchised athletes and contentious quarrels between organisations ahead of last summer’s Paris Olympics, this newspaper called for a revamp of the island’s major sporting bodies to ensure greater...

People who are good with words have better health and live longer than most other people. The first time I tried a pun in the secondary school I went to, one of the older students told me, “Shut your punt!” When I complained to one of the seniors,...

Older people sometimes take liberties with me by suggesting I’m too young to know anything much of this country’s history, since it so vast and extends beyond anything I can personally recall. Well, thank God for the public record. I managed to get...

This newspaper is encouraged by the confidence of the island’s call centre bosses that the island will continue to grow its share of the global outsourcing market. However, given the rapid advance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that...

I AM from eastern Jamaica, a person who spent a considerable amount of life as a young boy exploring the hills and valleys of St Thomas and lived to tell some of the tales. Growing up in Morant Bay in the 1950s through to the 1970s, now that I can...

IT HAS been rumoured, and widely publicised in the international media, that King Charles II will be offering the USA, under President Donald Trump, associate membership of the Commonwealth. President Trump in an impromptu response indicated that...

Our forests play a vital role in feeding the world. From wild foods to fresh water, from shelter to energy, forests sustain billions of people and biodiversity. Yet we continue to lose them at an alarming rate through deforestation and land...