Commentary
December 9, 2025
Stephen Vasciannie | Analysing use of force rules
In 1945, following World War II, almost all then-existing states – numbering about 50 – agreed to the terms of the United Nations Charter, a major treaty that remains in force today for all 193 member…
December 9, 2025
Orville Taylor | The award is for people like you
“Your future is connected to the West end.” This is the one thing on which my apocryphal high school principal and I agreed. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, to the Greater Glory of God. The West End is the…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Questions for GG, IC
Now that Sir Patrick Allen is ready to proceed with the instruments of appointment for two critical jobs at the Integrity Commission (IC), the agency can, on its face, proceed with the important work…
December 9, 2025
Denise Eldemire-Shearer | Caring for loved ones living with dementia
Recently, dementia has been discussed in several fora. According to a Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre 2016 study, dementia affects approximately seven per cent of the Jamaican population, but this…
December 9, 2025
Byron Blake | Award and reward: Is there a difference?
In an increasingly transactional, materialistic, and individualistic world, the distinction between award and reward has become blurred. Service has been replaced by “what is in it for me” and civil…
December 9, 2025
Garth Rattray | No consequences for impersonating a medical doctor
I have a lot of respect for and trust in our judicial system and for the judiciary. It, therefore, pains me to express a discordant view on the recent sentencing of 57-year-old Andrew Clarke. Andrew…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Serious Vale Royal Talks
Happily, it was all a misunderstanding. Everyone misapprehended Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ intention when he appeared to relegate Opposition Leader Mark Golding, negotiating first with the justice…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Old ways die hard
“Slavery is indeed scotched in our colonies, but it is not killed; its name is changed: its character remains to be changed hereafter”. [Special Magistrate Richard Robert…
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Calypso festival, light and spirit
There was a young woman called Starkie. Who had an affair with a darky. The result of her sins. Was quadruplets, not twins One black and one white and two khaki.