Commentary

LAST MONTH, there was a church service organised by the ecumenical church to launch the 50th anniversary of political independence from British colonial rule...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S Day (IWD) has become quite a celebratory event in Jamaica. Worship, workshops and exhibitions, lectures, luncheons and music events mark women's contribution to community and nation building...

WHEN WE were young, we were determined to break down the walls of racism. We rejected specious arguments that blacks were intellectually inferior and the use of the story of Ham in the Bible to claim that God himself...

Do you think Jamaica is spending too much money on the prince's visit? ...

Here I am, a fly on the wall of the royal bedchamber, listening to young Harry reporting to his grandmum on his recent trip to the Caribbean. He had been dispatched to the Caribbean and South America to help commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee...

Of the 40 seats in the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won 23 to the then Opposition People's National Party's (PNP) 17 in the local government elections of December 5, 2007....

THE EDITOR, Sir:Many of our leaders, including Jamaica's prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, seem to sit squarely on the side of Chris Gayle, notwithstanding the fact that his actions with respect to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), was plainly...

From my distant remove here in London, I have been observing with interest the debates in which I once took part when I ran the Caribbean Policy Research Institute...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is clearly paying attention to Jamaica's fiscal crisis and looking at the parallels between our problems and those of other countries...

The entire world is in a financial and economic crisis of a magnitude and complexity perhaps worse than anything we have ever experienced.

On August 31, 2011, the large perennial losses, totalling billions of dollars, of the government-owned sugar factories and estates came to a final stop.

While Middle East experts are casting doubts on threats that Iran could close the vital oil sea lanes where up to a quarter of the world's oil supply is transported, the fear persists that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would send...