Commentary

In the almost 32 years I have been writing this weekly column (since February 1993) I have commented through seven general elections (the one due this year will be my eighth); the People’s National Party (PNP) won four and the Jamaica Labour Party...

It is not clear how often a boy and girl below the age of 16 are brought before the courts for engaging in “consensual” sex with each other. That data, if collated, isn’t readily available, not even, it appears, to the children’s advocate, Diahann...

ONE OF the nagging thoughts, real or imagined, among the cybersecurity and law enforcement community, is that the authorities are always one step behind cybercriminals who are seemingly always on the cutting edge of new and inventive ways to...

ACCORDING TO the police, they have more than 30,000 warrants for the arrest of motorists who have not paid traffic fines and failed to turn up in court to dispute the tickets. Roughly, these warrants account for three per cent of the traffic...

MOST PEOPLE spend all the working days of their lives doing eight or more hours a day or through the night. Some, because of the nature of their jobs, belong to the essential services, and for considerable portions of their lives, work far more...

The recent suggestion by the prime minister (PM) to review the National Works Agency’s (NWA) functions has sparked discussion among engineers, particularly in context of the recently launched Shared Prosperity Through Accelerated Improvement to our...

With the ever-growing human population, diversity, including neurodiversity, has become more prevalent. In 2011, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Report on Disability estimated that about 15 per cent of the world’s population lived with...

Last year’s reported 19-per-cent reduction in murders, meaning that 265 fewer people were intentionally killed in Jamaica than in 2023, are important statistics which the vast majority of the island’s citizens will, unquestionably, be happy...

In The Sunday Gleaner of December 29, 2024, article the question: Fifty years on: Has Caribbean tourism advanced? was raised. Also on the page was the editorial titled, ‘Beyond the hotel strikes’. Reading editorial and the last article, whatever...

Every time there are injuries or deaths because of the foolishness that some public transport operators do, I recall way back in about 1999 -2000, when there was a spate of public sector and private sector redundancies, quite a few folks used some...

It has long been evident that the world’s richest nations, especially those responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, care little about the existential threats faced by small states. For the Caribbean, the time for...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness will likely find great sympathy for his idea of possibly expanding the National Works Agency (NWA) or creating a new body, charged with keeping the island’s roads in a better state of repair. “... The crisis that we...