Commentary

It all came to me as I watched a mosquito the size of a stealth bomber circle my fractured ankle.

Is the Fourth Estate selling out?For several reasons, the newspaper ad surprised me.

By now many people have seen the security cam video of Ray Rice delivering a knockout punch to his then fiancée, Janay Palmer, in an elevator.

Although the result was clear in last Thursday's referendum on independence, Scotland's future looks less so.

The following is an edited version of a presentation to the Rotary Club of Portmore on September 17, 2014.

Scots voted last week by a comfortable 10 percentage-point margin to stay in the British union. Yet, the status quo has been irrevocably changed. It is important for Jamaica and its partners in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to begin to pay attention to emerging events in Britain and how they will have to engage a reconfigured United Kingdom (UK).

UWI radio station a broadcast news big an broad inna 'patwa'! Mi rather call fi wi language 'Jamaican'. Same like how di English people dem talk English, a same so wi talk Jamaican. Mind yu, wi talk English, too. Dem force it on pon wi. An wi tek it fix-fix it up fi suit wi.

I think it's pretty clear that the health ministry underestimated the extent of the chikungunya outbreak. I'm no statistician, but if I know more than a dozen people with it, there can hardly be only 31 cases on the island. And that was before Andrew was a suspected case.