Commentary

I would like to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly commend the head of the Jamaica Labour Party's minority side of the St James Parish Council, Councillor Charles Sinclair, for being a very vocal, responsible and professional.

The prime minister recently told us that emancipation is a process, not an event. This means that, even though formally and legally free, we Jamaicans must expect some vestiges of slavery ...

I was among those who happened to be very surprised when Alfredo Montesso resigned as technical director of Jamaica's football programme.Montesso was in the job for only a few months and opted to quit following the hiring of Winfried Schafer as head...

If no more, Colin Campbell, the People's National Party (PNP) politician, has one redeeming quality: an impervious hide. The rhinoceros might have borrowed his....

Tuesday's confirmation by the Constitutional Court of the power of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) to arrest and initiate prosecution against police personnel it deems to have abused...

What on earth could 17-year-old Dwayne Jones, who was recently murdered in St James, have been thinking to have patronised a straight party in women's clothing? Besides, why would a male want to dress and be a woman?Why would a cross-dresser think he...

It is beyond me why any Jamaican would cross-dress and then parade in public. However, the more frightening picture seems to be the fact that cross-dressers would be significantly outnumbered by the number of Jamaicans who would be willing to murder one of them!...

We understand the sentiment of Dr Herb Elliott the chairman of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), who wants to make the close staff of athletes equally culpable when their charges fail drug tests.We, however,...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) must quickly decide whether it is up to the job it is mandated to perform...

On November 4, 2012, in a Gleaner article titled 'Jamaica's energy conundrum', I wrote: "The OUR is clearly not up to the mark." The OUR has unwittingly confirmed this by its handling of the bidding process for proposals for new generating capacity....

I know a young lady who sacrificed and studied for many years and gained her hard-earned medical degree...

We are encouraged by the oversight committee's assessment that Jamaica will meet the targets of its first quarterly test, to the end of June, of its economic support agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).But like the committee, this...