Commentary
The Gleaner endorses the decision by a tribunal of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Organisation (JIPO) that reinforces the geographic indication of “Jamaica Rum” as a product exclusively manufactured and aged in the island. We also support the...
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It is unfortunate that the governing party of this country, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has chosen to normalise racial prejudice and bigotry. Its primary purveyor of prejudicial political pronouncements, member of parliament (MP) Everald...
People left of centre were stunned, others crying, and still others are disappointed and anxious about Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election. The US has been politically polarised since 2000. The Democrats and Kamala Harris assumed...
That 240 of Jamaica’s 732 primary schools operate with 50 per cent fewer students – or worse – than they were built to accommodate raises obvious questions for the education ministry regarding the deployment of its resources. Clearly, there has to...
We need to appreciate the inbred factors in ourselves and the structures we have created, which prevent or slow down the achievement of the best plans of any government. Last week, from the prime minister to returning residents, there have been...
There once was a man who made it his personal pilgrimage 62 years ago to visit every nook and cranny of this island to bring an important message to Jamaicans. It was the values and attitudes messages that had been adorning the walls of classrooms...
No one will begrudge the access Jamaican entertainers and other creatives are being afforded to health and life insurance via a government-supported scheme. But with taxpayers picking up the tab for its premiums, there are likely to be questions...
It is critical for Jamaica to implement, forthwith, the Logistics Hub Master Plan. The future People’s National Party (PNP) administration is committing to this transformation, pledging to update and act on it, within the first 100 days. Through...
I drive out of Kingston each week and often return home in the late evenings. I’m always alarmed at the number of cars that fill three lanes for miles, trying to get out of Kingston to home. These cars light up the highway like a Catholic...
Almost three-quarters of the Jamaican population were not even lustful thoughts in their fathers’ minds, when Mike Henry and Karl Samuda were first elected to the House of Representatives. Standard-bearers for their Jamaica Labour Party (JLP);...
We used to believe that sleep apnoea is mainly experienced by men over 40 with big beer bellies. Although they are contributory factors, many people, including the elderly, teenagers, children, heavy individuals, skinny females, and even fit people...
Arcade fires in Kingston round about Christmas time have become eerily predictable. Seared in our collective memories are names such as Ray Ray Market, Oxford Mall, Redemption Arcade and Pearnel Charles Arcade, which have been scenes of infernos in...
A female friend wished me a “Happy International Men’s Day” but not the men. As we say in Trinidad and a few other places in the region, some men “day”, others “day, day”, and there are even a few who “day, day, day.” “Worse, many aren’t “day” or “...
If you live in an English-speaking Caribbean country, do you consider yourself freer and more fortunate than many others around the world? In a world where freedoms are under siege — where journalists are imprisoned, political dissent is silenced,...
Maybe they are addressing the question quietly in the background. However, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) should clearly signal its philosophical position, not only on the Government’s declared pivot to growth, but an implicit...
It is an old saying that “History repeats itself”. I don’t know if that is exactly true, but there certainly are parallels and similarities between events that take place years, decades, or even centuries apart. I guess that is what the study of...
