Commentary

THERE HAS not been much focus on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its work since the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) was held in February and Jamaica had its trade policy review in July. This organisation has been endeavouring to implement...

Our National motto is ‘Out of Many, One People’. It reflects the racial diversity of our population. According to The University of the West Indies, our ethnic make-up is as follows: 76.3 per cent African descent, 15.1 per cent Afro-European, 3.4...

As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) prepares for Donald Trump’s return as United States president, they have from Canada and Mexico a strategy that is not to be emulated. There is no need to grovel, or for CARICOM’s members to throw each other...

In October HBO announced the release of Get Millie Black, a crime series written by acclaimed Jamaican novelist Marlon James. This announcement and the airing in November highlighted the enduring vitality of Jamaican culture, creativity, and global...

Anthony Hylton’s claim last week that the lower reaches of Kingston’s Sandy Gully is in danger of failing, with potential loss of life and property, is deeply worrying. But the concerns of Mr Hylton, a member of Parliament, whose constituency...

This is an open letter to the director of public prosecutions to investigate the National Environment and Planning Agency’s (NEPA’s) handling of the recent matter with Trade Winds Citrus Limited. We, 39 groups and individuals, write to express our...

The good-governance NGO Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) has rightly called out the failure of government ministries and agencies to properly account for how they spent trillions of dollars of taxpayers’ money and the negligence of the...

The United States Constitution reads, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. Celebrating its anniversary a week from today, it is a mark of...

Nothing symbolises the state of Jamaica’s roads – and the urgency of doing something about them – better than the case in October of Venroy ‘Bigga’ Blackwood. Mr Blackwood, 58, lived in Ridge Pen, St Elizabeth, in southwestern Jamaica. On a dark...

Over the years, the term ‘head’ has moved beyond the indispensable appendage containing the brain to its contents and even to its disposition. At the same time, Hydra-like, other applications of the word have popped up organically, transplanted so...

Some parents are still having heart palpitations from hearing that the Senate recently approved an amendment to Jamaica’s Maintenance Act to allow for a maintenance order to be made in relation to a child after they have turned 18. Although...

A decade ago there was a buzz in Jamaica around nutraceuticals. The Portia Simpson Miller administration even declared the launch of a nutraceutical industry. During that period, personal use of ganja was decriminalised and there was talk of...