Commentary

Police Commissioner Owen Ellington spoke a truism in his remark last week that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) could not continue with the kind of indiscipline so often displayed by its members and which has lost so much trust and confidence among...

I've never been able to listen to 'Ragashanti Live' for more than about 10 minutes at a time. I have a lot of respect for Dr Kingsley Stewart's intellect. He's a brilliant anthropologist who always gives a riveting account of how he made it off the streets and into university.

So, now it's all The Gleaner's fault. Jamaica's difficulty isn't that the prime minister was less than candid with us. It's that a Gleaner editorial accused him of lying. And "some persons" apparently writing in The Gleaner allegedly prefer propaganda to facts.

Much has been made of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips engagement from the Jamaican perspective. While the preoccupation might be understandable, it is the American perspective that is the more engrossing. The latter speaks to the power and advantage of superior statecraft...

I endorse Education Minister Andrew Holness's proposal that parents who refuse to send their children to school be arrested and charged. However, there are a lot of issues that need to be sorted out with regard to our education system and the present state of the Jamaican economy.

Guyanese are the most hospitable people in the world. Trinidadians of my generation are next. It is true that neither Guyanese nor Trinidadians extend themselves as much as the people of the Gilbert and Ellis islands in the South Pacific who, many years ago, selected a nubile young lady to provide solace to men whose wives were pregnant and so needed succour or other games that people play.

I HAVE heard that Minister of Education Andrew Holness intends to abolish all-age schools and junior high schools.

THERE WAS speculation in a news report that Yendi Phillipps placed second and not first in the Miss Universe competition because she mentioned God in her answer in reference to capital punishment.

The outrageously high murder rate, hypercriminiality, enforced idleness, low productivity and increasing poverty are only some of the features of the madness rampant in this society.

MY ELDER brother cautioned me years ago about the psychological let-down of losing the privileges associated with any office.

PM blaiming the media - Do not let go of the Manatt, Phelps & Philip Affair or any other political issue that reeks of corruption.

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by online readers reacting to the article about 17-year old Winston Swaby shunning overseas study and doing well in recent CSEC exams.Local system works well...