Commentary

Human Resource (HR) professionals are responsible for adding value to the organisations they serve and to contribute towards their sustainability and productivity. A strong ethical culture is one in which all employees are committed to doing what...

Australian wicketkeeper, Rodney Marsh, known as ‘Iron Gloves’ for his sloppy catching, was one of the Aussie ‘hitmen’ or ‘Ugly Australians’ known for their hard-nosed cricket, hostile fast bowling but, most of all, for their verbal abuse of the...

A number of organisations in Jamaica, both in the private sector as well as government entities, tend to receive a plethora of customer complaints, which can be based on a variety of reasons. According to some customer service experts,...

This week’s protests by students and faculty of the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, demanding increases in the Government’s subvention to the university, is more than a squabble between that institution and the administration, and ought...

Horatio Ezekiel Malcolm accomplished much quietly. Very early in his life, he devoted his life as a missionary. His first missionary journey was to British Guiana (Guyana). In those days, Guyana had many jungles and some missionaries went...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness needs to be alert to the danger of people losing trust in his Government to the point where no one believes, or at least weighs very warily, anything it says. When it gets to that point, it usually matters naught what...

Foreign trade is as important to all other CARICOM member states as it is to Jamaica, and their trade profiles are similar. Within CARICOM, foreign trade policy is aimed at increasing exports to third countries, investment inflows, job...

Last year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination for English language recorded a 68 per cent pass (JIS News). Albeit satisfactory, passes in CSEC English language have always remained a long-standing...

There hasn’t been sufficient time for a deconstruction, and deep analysis, of the Budget Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke tabled in Parliament on Thursday, to clearly determine the philosophy that underpins its numbers and what, if any, role...

In addition to living in a technology-driven century, we also operate in an era that is heavily dependent on research. It is taught that research informs practice, and one of the positive elements about most of the four-year degree programmes in...

This month, in a week or so, is five years since Cavahn McKenzie, a St Jago High School middle-distance runner, collapsed and died after a cross-country race in Trinidad and Tobago. Cavahn was 17. He suffered a heart attack For much of last week,...