Commentary

Based on the lead story published in The Gleaner on Friday, December 9, I would like to question the Government of Jamaica. You mean to tell me that during the incursion in Tivoli Gardens, the then prime minister knew about the assistance of the United States and did not inform the minister of national security of an important detail such as that?

The more I listen to conversations relating to the recent political snags with the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme, the US spy plane and other political practices of the present and successive government, the more I'm detecting a systemic, pervasive and defective ideology at work in our political thinking, speech and, possibly, choices

WE DO not believe that the People's National Party (PNP), like the Government, has as yet gone far enough in articulating the depth of Jamaica's fiscal crisis and the tough choices that will have to be made if...

THE JAMAICAN Government has agreed to host the Fifth Pan-American Regional Meeting connected with the United Nations Ramsar Convention, and it is taking place right now at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel...

Dr Peter Phillips, who is in charge of the People's National Party's (PNP) election campaign, will today brief journalists in his other, and more substantive, capacity: the party's shadow minister on finance, planning and the public service.It is an...

Jamaicans witnessed the dramatic drop in the country's murder rate in the aftermath of the dismantling of the Shower Posse when its leader, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, was extradited to the United States...

Having found the money to fix the photocopier at the Supreme Court and overseeing the repair, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck perhaps has the time to pay attention to a larger problem raised by Justice Seymour Panton.

The Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) scandal has eventuated major casualties so far, with the resignations of Works Minister Mike Henry and National Works Agency (NWA) CEO Patrick Wong, and the sending on leave of Permanent Secretary...

Media coverage of politics is difficult for all involved. Few candidates feel fairly treated, and because straight reporting, opinion and commentary, and the ever-encroaching public relations all have to exist...

Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan, the Labour Party socialist and architect of Britain's post-war National Health Service, is hardly the figure to whom you might look for inspiration on solving Jamaica's fiscal crisis.In his monumental biography on his mentor...

Somehow, we convinced Little D to partner The Dunce against us.Now, anybody who knows Little D knows he's serious about his dominoes, so, after the 10th consecutive irredeemably poor choice by his partner...