Commentary
The Holness administration has given itself a chance for a reset of the education transformation project and to mobilise Jamaicans behind the initiative. It should grasp it. Last week, in a further reminder of how the cart was hitched in front of...
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We must rid ourselves of the Privy Council because its retention is an unacceptable expression of our independence and sovereignty. By the same token, we must rid ourselves of the UK Monarchy and embrace Republicanism because the retention of the...
What fortune to be born in this era! We have seen our first female prime minister, chief justice, and commissioners of correction and Customs, and were it not for the shameless bias, and yet unexplained actions of the powers that be, we would have...
Last February, property owners on Lady Musgrave Road were issued notices that some of their land would be acquired by the Government for infrastructure development. The widening of Lady Musgrave Road and East King’s House Road is intended to ease...
I dedicate this piece to my father (God rest his soul), who was a loyal, patriotic, hard-working, public servant and visionary who wasted his breath on the political bureaucrats of his day. He spent almost his entire working life at the Kingston...
The disturbing surge in violence among the nation’s students is a looming issue in search of urgent solution, if we intend to return a sense of safety and calm to the school environment. Do these reports of brawls, stabbings, fights and, in rare...
Earlier this week I found out about the “World Biggest Liar” Competition in England. I immediate said it was in the wrong place with the wrong people. I remember one of my friends who lied about everything and his father, really upset, decided to...
Biotechnology is often compared to a double-edged sword as it can have both good and bad consequences. Biotechnology’s dual nature as both a catalyst for progress and a potential source of disorganisation raises profound ethical questions about...
Jamaica’s formal recognition this week of Palestine as a sovereign and independent state is a profoundly moral decision that places the island on the right side of history. Notably, Jamaica became the 140th of the 193 members of the United...
It is hard to muster much sympathy for a government that responds to serious concerns with half-measures. A week ago Jamaica’s Constitutional Court struck down an amendment to the nation’s highest law rushed through the lower house in a day,...
In my column last week titled ‘Not popularity that makes a hero’ I highlighted that from observation, the rationale many persons express for wanting various Jamaican legends to be awarded with the Order of National Hero is the wealth of...
After five months of stonewalling, Juliet Holness, the Speaker, finally relented on Tuesday and tabled the opinions by the Attorney General’s Chambers on the tabling of reports sent to Parliament by the Integrity Commission (IC) and the auditor...
During my contribution the 2024 Budget Debate in Parliament, I took the opportunity to address a deep-rooted crisis affecting our nation – one that extends beyond macroeconomic numbers and crime statistics – the alarming deterioration of societal...
Next July, my childhood idol Iron ‘Mike’ Tyson comes out of retirement for a second time, this time to beat some guy named Jake Paul. This is Mike’s second fight since he and Roy Jones embarrassed themselves in 2020. But given how desperate we were...
The Public Service Commission (PSC) should provide greater clarity on Paula Llewellyn’s seemingly temporary disengagement as director of public prosecutions (DPP), the basis on which that announcement was made by the attorney general, and the terms...
It is that time again and most examination guidelines available to students focus on the preparation phase where students are given study tips and suggestions about how to better prepare themselves for a written exam; mostly in relation to...
