In Focus

Democracy is alive when political Opposition is awake.Both national newspapers, Sunday, August 26, published an article by Opposition Leader, Dr Peter Phillips condemning "partisan political bias"in the operations of the Public Service Commission...

Ten years ago this month, the financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, triggering the 2008 crash and the subsequent Great Recession from which the world's economies have still not fully recovered. Will we look back on...

Climate change is the defining issue of our time - and we are at a defining moment. We face a direct existential threat. Climate change is moving faster than we are. If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid...

For more than 10 years I’ve used these columns to press for radical constitutional change. I’ve made it clear that I believe Jamaica is doomed unless we radically reconstruct our country to give it a chance for success. My premise...

T​heatre packed at launching of People’s Party’, The Daily Gleaner reported on a crowded front page on Monday morning, September 19, 1938.That was the Ward Theatre, in which the People's National Party (PNP) had been launched the day before....

It's not a surprise that our country is still infested with many young and not-so-young men who are prepared now and will be so prepared tomorrow to use their firepower on sections of the society.The gunfire between members of the security forces...

Do you have a vision for Jamaica? Or are you more concerned with either keeping or putting 'your' party in 'power'? Can you see beyond your party's prospects to catch a glimpse of Jamaica's future? If yes, what does it look like to you?If you have...

In the interest of bipartisan support for new policing measures, a little concession could be made to Fitz Jackson and the Opposition PNP for which he is spokesman on national (in)security.The members of the latest new branch of the Jamaica...

The thought of my child being wilfully killed by another human being raises all the hairs on my neck and head - and you know just how difficult that must be.My colleagues in media often use the unnecessary adjective or adverb, brutal or brutally....

The recent pronouncement by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw that he is prepared to ban the importation of certain dog breeds based on their potential threat to human life and limb would be commendable, if it had...

The gruesome murder of 14-year-old Yetanya Francis has once again shocked the country, causing widespread outrage and condemnation, as it should. Regrettably, however, neither the circumstance nor the public reaction is new.The children's monument...

Cricket aficionado, professor of history, and the most senior manager of the most powerful and most complex Caribbean regional organisation, Sir Hilary Beckles, was pushed on to the back foot by the media googly bowled to him in a recent RJR Group...