Commentary

Last Monday was Earth Day, and one of the big issues environmentalists took up is the foul problem of disposable diapers.

They spent far too much time on disingenuous claims about the policy options available to the Government, as well the causes for the current perils faced by Jamaica's economy.

A police superintendent has this week confirmed what was often rumoured about girls who have been reported missing from inner-city communities. According to Deputy Superintendent Steven Moodie, some teenage girls living in such neighbourhoods are sent away by their mothers to the country, or to relatives elsewhere, to get them out of harm's way. These girls are then reported missing.

I guess I should be accustomed by now to the various means the Government uses to extract money from us, but I was totally taken aback by the blatant fraud being committed by the Half-Way Tree Post Office.

"So what exactly is the point at tissue?" I asked my friend who had called to draw my attention to a toilet paper war supposedly raging between Jamaica and Trinidad. He expected my response and said it is no laughing matter, as, like the Myrie and cement incidents, it is likely to reach the Caribbean Court of Justice where the judges may have to sit on the matter.

Chris Gayle's astonishing 175 not out in the IPL is still being widely talked about.The innings itself is astonishing enough: 175 from 66 balls with 17 sixes is unheard of, and the admission by Chris that he "slowed down" in the middle is mind-boggling.

After Phillip Paulwell's intervention in the Budget Debate on Wednesday, this newspaper wouldn't be surprised if officials at the International Monetary Fund are suspicious about Jamaica's commitment to the economic programme it has agreed with...

Recently, Peter Bunting, minister of national security, expressed the belief that divine intervention has a role in crime fighting, by way of touching the hearts of a wide cross section of Jamaicans.

IT ISN'T uncommon for people who shape public opinion in Jamaica to disparage the poor. They often express envy for the central, rhetorical and exploitative place ...

This newspaper is grateful to the Rev Eniola Davis and high-school principal Ruel Reid for their unvarnished bits of truth-telling this week, which, hopefully, will help to reignite, and deepen, the necessary discussion on reproductive health issues in...

I read with interest the Rev Dr Devon Dick's brief remarks (published in this newspaper on April 11, 2013) about my book, Agency of the Enslaved, launched at Ardenne High School on March 23.I take some delight in the good reverend's attentiveness to my...

Do you agree with the Rev Eniola Davis that the morning-after pill should be promoted more among young people? Where do these people come from respectfully? The dinosaur age? No, we need comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights...