Commentary

This newspaper is happy for the people who live in North East St Ann. We are not so for the constituents of South Trelawny. On September 21 they will have been without a member of parliament for a year, since the resignation of their MP, Marisa...

Over two billion metric tons of unsustainable, human-generated waste are thrown away globally every year, entering our environment and polluting every ecosystem around the world. If we continue practising waste management strategies as we do today...

Kristalina Georgieva’s recruitment of Nigel Clarke as one of her deputies at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has spawned something of a spectator sport in Kingston: everyone is guessing about who will replace Dr Clarke as Jamaica’s finance...

The first draft of this article was scripted months before Beryl’s arrival and therefore should not be read as a reaction to the performance of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) in its wake. However, Beryl has substantiated the argument for the...

Paying Jamaica’s teachers better may, indeed, help to keep them in the island’s classrooms, as their leaders say. However, what has been missing so far from their argument are the deliverables teachers are willing to provide for this greater...

Ten months ago, most onlookers assumed that ordinary global citizens could do nothing to impact the future of Palestinians. A tiny, yet impactful, minority thought otherwise. Today, a seismic transformation in the geopolitical landscape is...

Daily Jamaicans are presented with news reports and updates about the deadly crime and road traffic realities. These stories capture the dire urgency of the lack of safety on our roads and communities. Interestingly non-communicable diseases (NCDs...

Having again placed the issue on the agenda, Garth Anderson will hopefully have greater success than the Patterson Commission in igniting substantial public discussion of what is required to entice more students to teachers’ colleges and then...

The announcement that Minister Nigel Clarke will shortly depart our shores to assume one of the four deputy managing director positions at the IMF has dominated the news over the past few days. The prime minister has been more than ecstatic in...

It started out as a quiet Sunday morning drive from Kingston to Oracabessa. My wife Joan and I decided to take the old road to Bog Walk, stop for breakfast, and then join the North South (Luxury) Highway for the rest of the way to the north coast....

A man bumps into a woman in a hotel lobby and, as he does, his elbow goes into her breast. They are both quite startled. The man turned to her and said, “Ma’am, I’m so sorry but, if your heart is as soft as your breast, I know you’ll forgive me.”...

Marisa Colleen Dalrymple-Philibert resigned as member of parliament on September 21, 2023; since then, the 26,564 residents (2011 census) of Trelawny Southern – of whom 19,716 are registered voters (2020) – have not been represented in Parliament,...