Commentary

With each passing summer, temperatures reach new peaks and storms get more severe. NASA reported that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on record, and all signs point to summer 2024 getting even warmer. While these conditions can be eased by using...

Like Bruce Golding, this newspaper was surprised that the committee considering the reform to Jamaica’s Constitution rejected proposals for the impeachment of parliamentarians, which suggests that the island’s political parties may have done an...

As a people we pay scant attention to the 40 per cent of Jamaicans who live abroad. Oh yes, we depend on them mightily to keep our hopes, households and economy afloat. But what about their struggles, the concerns of their existence; the shared...

This is an open query to Justice Minister Delroy Chuck who has publicly insisted that Jamaicans should have their own final court of appeal. Driven perhaps by nationalist fervour, Minister, do you not regard your proposal as awkward at best, given...

Look at the Olympic flag! A red and blue circle at each end, on a white background; the colours of our American friends up north. But this little rock, with a population of 2.87 million, less than 0.9 per cent of America’s population, stands in the...

The issue of the dictatorial powers of the prime minister, and by implication of the parliamentary majority he directs, as well as how to curb these powers arose at the birth of Jamaica’s Independence Constitution, in the very Constitution Making...

Jamaica’s thrust for reparatory justice received a small boost this week from two New Zealanders who journeyed to the island to apologise for the role of their ancestors in the evil slave trade. Sisters Kate Thomas and Aidee Walker acknowledged...

A few days ago, I was within a hair’s breadth of getting the police after me when a politician named Scotland, who calls himself “an Afro-Trinidadian of Parliament with natural hair”, was sworn in as minister in the Ministry of National Security....

Every year on August 1 (like yesterday) we celebrate Emancipation Day (1834) and/or Full Freedom (1838), and then five days later we celebrate political Independence from the United Kingdom which took place in 1962. A lot of water flowed under the...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has fixed a glaring omission in its society of distinguished regional citizens by elevating Roderick Rainford to the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC). As this newspaper pointed out in May while celebrating...

WE’VE ALL heard the old saying that ‘actions speak louder than words’, right? It’s simple, straightforward and to the point. But unfortunately, some of us in the communications business seem to have forgotten that age-old adage, as we seek to talk...

July continues to be the month of rapid-fire events. Among them Hurricane Beryl, the Trump attempted assassination, the COPA and the EURO dramatic finals, and the 2024 Olympics – all of which are making this a month to remember. Then along comes...