Commentary

Writing in The Gleaner on Thursday, Monique Lynch, the programme coordinator at the School of Nursing at the University of the West Indies, Mona, called for the integration of mental health into the wellness initiatives at Jamaica’s workplaces. Ms...

Digitisation has altered the landscape of global commerce, creating new opportunities for businesses. For the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the impact of these innovations is particularly profound, offering a pathway to growth. In...

Change leadership is critical for navigating the transformation of the future of work, driving innovation, improving productivity, and ensuring long-term organisational success in an evolving landscape. Recently, the Ministry of Labour and Social...

There is no obvious big breakthrough from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ three-day visit to India, which he wound up yesterday. From a standpoint of optics, probably the most significant outcomes of the trip are Jamaica’s formal opening of a...

WE WRITE in response to the article ‘Pain and despair’ published on September 27. The Sickle Cell Unit deeply empathises with the concerns voiced by the patients suffering from sickle cell disease. We recognise their struggles regarding...

This newspaper endorses the resolution of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to award the Key to the City of Kingston to the iconic Jamaican athlete, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. We hope this is the beginning of a larger movement...

This week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness became the first Jamaican prime minister to pay an official visit to India. He is visiting from September 30 to October 3 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the aim of strengthening...

If you are a biological man, think about this. How would you feel if every month, or several times a year, you were incapacitated by pain for days at a time, and along with the pain, you would bleed? How would you feel if this pain would interfere...

Given The Gleaner’s reprise of the question of whether senior public officials should be required to place their private businesses or earning assets in blind trusts, the authorities should grasp the opportunity to conclude an issue raised nearly...

There are few political leaders who are proponents of Ukraine ceding a part of its territory to Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Those who do are on the wrong side of settled international law and norms. This shattered peace in Europe was the...

It is not clear who Delroy Chuck, Jamaica’s justice minister, has in mind to instruct the Integrity Commission (IC) to certify Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ statutory declaration of his wealth. Hopefully, Mr Chuck wasn’t expecting the Parliament,...

Terror Fabulous and Nadine Sutherland’s big tune, Action, can be heard as an anthem for language education reform in Jamaica. The title of a 2016 UNESCO policy paper sums up the plight of most Jamaican primary school children: ‘If you don’t...