Commentary

Just a few years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of families in Latin America and the Caribbean did not know whether they would have enough food for the next day. The shutdown of economies, massive job losses, and the sharp...

With Jamaica’s acknowledged serious shortage of healthcare professionals, it is urgent that the authorities do more to the deal with the problems of accrediting doctors trained abroad, especially in China. In this newspaper’s view the statement...

Were it true, it would confound this newspaper that prosecutors would wilfully frustrate the wish of accused persons to be tried without juries. That is unless they have compelling evidence that judges slated to hear the cases were likely to behave...

It is neither science nor ‘sciance’. Yet, my predictions were close, both in regard to the general election and of course the World Athletics Championships. It ends today, and I am sticking my neck out that we will medal in at least three relays...

Jamaica’s appearance on America’s list of countries that are either major producers or transshipment points for illicit drugs will be discomforting for Kingston, but isn’t, on its face, a source of crisis for the Holness administration. As it now...

Have you seen Lord Melody? The police are making inquiries Please if you see the Boo Boo man Get in touch with the nearest police station Ah hear he have a big maintenance case Causing a sensation in the place Ah cow in the country...

I have now had an uninterrupted water supply for two days straight. This is truly cause for jubilation since, as of July, when the NWC announced its annual water restriction schedule, water has been a scarce commodity. It looks like the ‘drought’...

SOME DAYS ago, I had to visit a friend at the Tony Thwaites Wing (TTW) of the University Hospital of the West Indies. TTW has always puzzled me. For years, it had sort of developed a reputation as the hospital where rich people go. But the vast...

IN SCHOOL, we learnt of our discovery and subsequent colonisation by a number of European nations, the chief of which was the British. Caribbean history, as explained, then chronicled the escapades of Christopher Columbus and, in later years, the...

Heeding discipline shows the way to life – The book of Proverbs Without discipline there is no life. – Katharine Hepburn AROUND THE world, we are seeing the increasing erosion of discipline, which includes heeding rules and regulations,...

It was two weeks after Apocrypha’s general elections but Oma D’unn was still busy fielding electoral complaints. Regular visitors to that fantasyland where all politicians are friends remember retired politician Oma D’unn. Oma, like a moon, was...

Anyone with even a passing interest in investments and how long it will take their capital to double at a specific rate of return is likely to be aware of the Rule of 70. It is a simple tool based in the mathematics of exponential growth and...