Commentary

Poor Desmond McKenzie. In the wake of well over 200 murders in his West Kingston constituency since January 2012, the member of parliament finds himself cast as the vile villain that the people, albeit a small but vocal minority...

Our gregarious DPP had been doing the talk-show rounds touting her office's professionalism and how well the justice system works.Then: the Kern Spencer decision...

The commissioner of police assured us some weeks ago that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) could be trusted...

April is Cancer Awareness Month, so I would like to take this opportunity to make a public cervix announcement to all women who have a cervix and have ever been sexually active: Please do your Pap smears.

Since last November, the people of Ukraine have been striving to define their own future.

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller should have had no difficulty convincing anyone, but for the deliberately pig-headed, that Jamaica, in the 70 years of universal adult suffrage, has done insufficiently to increase the numbers and role of women in political leadership.

The benefits that Jamaica can obtain from having a global logistics hub are not fully appreciated by many persons, and that is one of the reasons why there is not a greater support for establishing one.

Frankly, we expected little of Colin Campbell, except that he would have been impervious to any criticism of his appointment as CEO of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC)

Letter writer Colin Wheeler has asked a pertinent question in The Gleaner (April 4, 2014) about facilities at Jamaica's premier cricketing ground: What about parking at Sabina Park?

I refer to two recent Gleaner editorials, 'Resisting temptations' (March 26, 2014) and 'DPP going too far' (March 31, 2014), and the Bar Association president's guest column to The Gleaner (April 2, 2014) calling for clarification of my "post-acquittal...

APPENDIX (as transcribed verbatim by a member of the prosecution's team)R v Kern Spencer and Coleen WrightRuling on application for permanent stay of proceedings and no-case submissionHer Honour Ms Judith Pusey states:"No-case submission was made by the...

Capitalism is an unequal battle between management and workers, between the strong and the weak. This is why good governments come down on the side of the workers, to protect the weak against the strong....