Commentary

As children growing up in ‘town’, sometimes my brother and I would play cricket in the backyard. We happened to have a cricket bat and all we needed was three sticks straight enough to serve as the wicket, and whatever ball we could find to bowl...

At a conference in Miami in December on digital connectivity, Dickon Mitchell, the outgoing chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), outlined a raft of initiatives planned by CARICOM to enhance the use of digital technologies to support the...

Congratulations! We have made it to 2025! Praise be to all the deities who got us here because at one point I was sure whoever was writing the global script had truly lost their collective minds and the plot to boot. 2024 was a massive political...

It is likely, at best, to have caused the merest ripple in the memory of most Jamaicans: that Boxing Day was the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. January 14 will mark the 118th year since the Great Earthquake of Kingston. Although the...

During Jamaica’s 20th century pre-Independence years, King Street was the scene where shopping was supreme. It was destined that most of the land bordering the main street within the original city limits of Kingston would be used for the sale of...

Solar is most famous for being a planet-saving addition to the roof of your home. But it can help us meet our growing energy needs while creating a pathway to a clean energy future for us all. Which is why in just a decade, solar has skyrocketed...

Monique Lewis’ call for the greening of Jamaica’s urban infrastructure is not entirely new. But given her job, she adds an important voice to the public advocacy for new approaches for dealing with the island’s growing urbanisation in the...

This year ends with rumblings of discontent in the booming tourism industry in Jamaica and possibly the Caribbean. The rumblings are from workers who feel disrespected, exploited, and underpaid in a foreign-dominated and managed industry. There...

Many years ago, when I wrote a piece posing the rhetorical question, “… who will be the first to die this year?” a few readers expressed that they thought that I was being pessimistic, or ‘goat mouthing’ the nation. Nonetheless, as expected, the...

There is every expectation that national attention will shift sharply to the general elections due by September 2025. From all the recent soundings we are already in campaign season. Even with an election looming, people expect the machinery of...

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 Jewish people – once a mighty nation which conquered their neighbours – were now themselves conquered by the Romans, who taxed them and subjugated them. They remembered their glory days under King David, a shepherd turned mighty warrior who...