Commentary

It is coincidental, but the timing of the High Court's striking down, as unconstitutional, of last year's interim amendment to the Bail Act was entirely propitious.That law, like legislation giving additional powers to the police to detain persons...

Quite sensibly, the police commissioner, Mr Owen Ellington, has distanced the constabulary from the declaration by one of his key lieutenants, Mr Fitz Bailey, that gays were the major players in organised crime, and led in the one that leeched money...

Last Friday, in deciding what I shall refer to as the Nation and Wright case, the Constitutional Court struck a blow for liberty and the rule of law in Jamaica by ruling that the entire Bail (Interim Provisions for Specified Offences) Act 2010, and most of the provisions in the Bail (Amendment) Act 2010, are unconstitutional and void.

If last week's statement by Mr Audley Shaw on the status of Jamaica's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was aimed at convincing people that things are on track and heading towards a fine outcome, we would say to the minister that his effort fell well short of the mark.

The first time I went to Germany and saw BMW and Mercedes-Benz taxis, it was a real eye-opener. I don't mean the top-end, private chauffeur market. We're talking route taxi. I once took a BMW taxi from Cologne to Bonn to pick up a visa for Ghana.

Persons have been crying out for the Government to shut down the scrap-metal industry. Yes, shut it down, because persons can see their possessions, like the grilles of their homes or motor vehicles, being stolen.

This Government generally speaks against the crash-programme work that was practised in the '70s by the Michael Manley administration. I have noticed a general trend in patching roads these days that is similar to the crash programmes practised back in the day.

The post-mortem of Jamaica's disastrous showing at the IFNA World Championships will do no good if we don't face the hard issues which must be addressed.This was arguably the most prepared netball team to have left...

We welcome Mrs Marisa Dalrymple Philibert to the speaker's chair in the House of Representatives and note, unfortunately, that she is only the second woman to have had the job.Mrs Dalrymple Philibert, however, will be aware that our judgement of her...

We note Police Commissioner Owen Ellington's detailed review, and robust defence, of the constabulary's handling of the Khajeel Mais murder case, including its decision not to publicly declare as a 'person of interest' the owner of the BMW X6 SUV from...

THE INDUSTRIAL-relations landscape took on a pleasantly scenic view last week when in a rare display of unity and goodwill, powerful trade-union leaders dispensed with years of differences and, in so doing, brought...