Commentary

There has been much thoughtless ranting about the lack of credibility of the police's information arm, the Constabulary Communications Network (CCN), since the emergence of a video showing policemen beating and then shooting a supine man who could have...

JUSTICE, AS seen through the eye of present-day Jamaica, is a much more complex process than what existed in earlier times when it was metered out and had more to do with common theft and wounding rather than the gross murder...

We do not know whom we should congratulate, the shadowy Mr Glendon Harrison, who is formally listed as the president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), or Senator Norman Grant, the immediate past president...

ONLY A court of law can ultimately determine whether the policemen who were video-recorded beating, and eventually shooting to death, a murder suspect are guilty of an offence. But we, too - as we presume is the case with the majority of Jamaicans...

CHEAPSKATE AIRLINES appear to be on a campaign to dampen the spirits of would-be travelers as they continue to pile on new charges - the latest being Spirit Airlines' charge for carry-on luggage. Spirit would have us believe...

What happened before the shooting? - While it is certainly a fact that two wrongs do not make a right, I thought I read that the individual that the cops shot in Buckfield...

Talking is a vital part of every domino game. A silent domino game is one that'll soon end. In addition to the obligatory "sledging" and derogatory humour regarding the level of opponents' play...

On July 22, President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia accused Venezuela of allowing left-wing Colombian rebels to have bases on the Venezuelan side of the 2,000-km.

WE WARNED a week ago against Jamaica falling into a false sense of security over the reopening by UC Rusal of its 650,000 tonne alumina refinery at Ewarton, St Catherine.After all, Rusal's 1.1 million refinery at Naine...

In an article titled “Courageous Leadership Needed” published in The Sunday Gleaner on October 7, 2007, I wrote: “As a nation, we are at a critical juncture – the results of the general election show this; the tumultuous...

The television news of last Friday night presented us with horrifying video images of a person identified as a police officer shooting an unarmed man lying defenceless on the ground.

About this time last year, I wrote about the build-up of airport traffic of non-resident Jamaicans coming home to celebrate the Emancipation and Independence holidays with their relatives.