Commentary

For most of my life, I was a loyal carnivore. I hated all vegetables except broccoli, which only interested me because I had it ingrained in my head from childhood that they were trees and I, the big bad hurricane. I despised peas and so I had to...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was, on the face of it, unanimous in its rejection last week of Donald Trump’s rekindling of the contumelious Helms-Burton Act that allows Americans to sue foreigners who possess ­former US-owned properties in Cuba...

Surely, if last week taught us ­anything, it’s that not every ­circumstance that seems criminal really is. Especially when viewed with the trained, legal eye. Where laymen see what appears to them as nepotism, corruption and certain jail time,...

If men did not exist, there would be no abortions. Pregnancies do not just occur magically. In order for conception to take place, sperm and egg must meet. The egg comes from a woman, and the sperm from a man. No man, no sperm. No sperm, no...

In 2014, I sojourned to Songyuan, a rustic and quaint prefecture in China’s Jilin province. Blacks were very scarce in the area, and so it was not long before I catapulted to a celebrity-like status. Whenever I walked the streets, dined in...

With the multiplicity of simultaneous ‘legacy’ roadwork projects going on, many teeming inner-city and several middleclass communities have been without potable water for months. I’m always mystified by a political machinery that espouses concern...

Out of a desire to praise great men when they are still with us, this and succeeding articles will examine the contribution of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga to the building of our nation. These articles will avoid the hackneyed subject of his...

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Thursday gone, Gleaner put out one front-page story wid dis ya headline: ‘A Real Threat – Rooms On The Beach Muckraking Could Scare Off Investors, Says Lee-Chin’. Ascorden to Gleaner, Michael Lee-Chin seh if im did own...

It is important to answer, clarify and refute claims made in the article entitled ‘Tullow and Jamaica – Why the Silence Over the Big Oil and Gas Find?’ which was published in The Sunday Gleaner on May 12, 2019.  ...

The vulnerability of members of the public to cyberattack was aptly demonstrated this week by one of the country’s major ­commercial banks. The National Commercial Bank (NCB) publicly warned its customers against responding to a fictitious e-mail...

England is a crazy place and the English language is even crazier than its inventors. An Englishman on a horse with a big shotgun in his hand was riding through the forest when he came upon a beautiful and totally naked red-haired woman. “What you...

Antony Anderson, the police chief, would understand why his recent press conference left most Jamaicans feeling unfulfilled and ungratified. It delivered far less than was promised. People remain as fuzzy as ever about the big vision for the...