Commentary

The threat of serious climate change and growing global warming has been the concern of many governments over the past 15 years. It was feared that the overall global climate would increase in temperature and the earth would warm so rapidly that ice caps would melt and seas rise, resulting in flooding of many sea-coast cities all over the world.

I cannot speak to the truthfulness of the things I hear or read in social media. I have no authority on any subject having to do with the leadership race within the JLP between Andrew Holness and Audley Shaw. Being bombarded with information, one has to wonder, however, what if?

There are many things to celebrate about the United States, not least its democracy. But there is a thing or two about politics that modern America might relearn from even poor countries like Jamaica, including the importance of compromise, and that democracy, while not tolerating tyranny by the majority, does not presume capitulation to the minority.

The Opposition has latched on to the sceptic bandwagon questioning whether Azurest/Cambridge, the entity which emerged the preferred bidder for the supply of 360 megawatts of energy to the national grid, was actually first past the post.Gregory Mair,...

In a recent radio interview, apprentice jockey Prince 'Daggerman' Holder, asked what's the best thing ever said to him by a woman, replied, "Dem sey me likkle but me tallawah."I doubt this has ever been said of Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke,...

For those old enough to know, the name Mariel is likely to conjure up television images from 33 years ago of people being crammed into small boats in Cuba for the 90-mile run to Miami...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), of which Jamaica is a member and for which we carry the lead on issues of external relations, has a free-trade agreement with the Dominican Republic.CARICOM and the Dominican Republic (DR) form CARIFORUM, a vehicle ...

Jamaica was recently selected to chair the United Nations World Tourism Organization. And while our preparations for the crucial winter tourist season begin in earnest, it is ironic that our homophobic laws and practices cut the country off ...

"So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one." (Ezekiel 22: 30)With the recent...

That loud rumble you hear from beneath the earth's surface isn't an earthquake.

It saddens me to see Dr Herbert Thompson drawn into the vortex of the partisan political bickering and sullied because of it.