Britain, in not recognizing the vaccine programme of countries with high instances of COVID-19 infections, found more commonly among the developing, could have serious implications, especially for those who see taking the vaccine as a way to ensure...
The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has some cause for concern, as the organisation’s popularity has plummeted. The Gleaner-commissioned Don Anderson poll shows a growing discontent with the country’s leadership. But is it all bad...
A Don Anderson poll, commissioned by The Gleaner, is not painting a wonderful picture for the People’s National Party. Increasingly, the party is losing the favourability race and there is no telling if the popularity free-fall it finds...
Energy minister Daryl Vaz may have had his visa re-instated, but the loss of it in the first place, and a notification on the new travel implement has raised questions that may be more trouble than they are worth. Published September 26, 2021...
When the filming of the latest James Bond thriller was announced to include heavy Jamaican input, not for the first time, there was much fanfare. But as is the nature of film, some of that died with the lengthy background work that goes into the...
The timing of Ruel Reid’s request for extended leave could not have been worse, as the country had only just learned of the fact taxpayers were still contributing to his finances long after the educator and minister had fallen from grace as...
Thirty-three men and women standing in front of a judge is new. Anti-gang legislation, in the context of Jamaican law, is new. The ‘newness’ of a case against members of the One Don Gang has put it squarely in the eyes of the public...
When it was announced Commodore Antonette Wemyss Gorman would become chief of defence staff it signalled not just a major achievement for her but a major achievement for the male-dominated Jamaica Defence Force and, of course, for the women who...
Beating England in England was some feat for the West Indies and until 1963, seemed like something best left to fable. Just as important, was the act that this West Indies team had transformed from the very white-looking representation that was its...
Track and Field, cricket, football have been staples of the Jamaican landscape for a long time but the sport of motor racing also has a long history with names Machado, Sirgany and Vernam Field counting themselves as almost household by 1961 when...
The gargantuan stature the West Indies cricket team and its players took on between early 1960s and the mid-1990s is a wonderful example of how the Caribbean can find something to be proud of in themselves. Even as political and financial unity...
There was a time when the splendour of the motherland, England, was very much part of the rich traditions of Jamaica. Today, there are only vestiges of the same, but there was a time. Published Wednesday, September 22, 1948 Gloster Battalions...
The Caribbean’s first attempt to replicate the idea of strength through unity ended in abject failure as Jamaica voted against coming together with its Caribbean neighbours in a Referendum that spelled the end of the political career of one...
Rocks collected on Mars have revealed that aliens could have existed on the red planet. Scientists at Nasa believe that samples collected by its Perseverance rover prove a water source was once present on Mars and that it may have held life. Ken...
A first edition copy of 'Frankenstein' was among a collection of rare books sold by auctioneers for £7.1 million. The Mary Shelley classic, which was published in 1818, sold for £856,000 - the highest price ever paid for a work...
A man called Harry Potter has spent 25 years trying to convince people that it is his real name. Potter, from Waterlooville in Hampshire, says he has been disciplined in football games and was even called a liar by his future wife after telling her...
Forty-two per cent of people would have sex with a robot. A new report has claimed that a staggering four in ten people would be up for sleeping with a cyborg, with men more likely to say yes as 48 per cent said they would happily share a bed with...
Shopkeepers have been urged by police not to sell cans of baked beans to children due to a new TikTok trend. Clips are being posted on the social media platform with the hashtag #beanbandits which shows young people smearing the juice from the...
JOHANNESBURG – In South Africa, many people struggle to access sufficient quantities of healthy food. Because their diets are high in processed foods, refined starch, sugar, and fat, they face a double burden of malnutrition and obesity, or...
MEXICO CITY – COVID-19 has sharpened the focus on many challenges with which the world has long been grappling, including rising inequality, insufficient access to adequate health care and education, and climate change. Long before the...
LONDON – Fifty years ago, a US president closed the gold window, ended capital controls, and launched a new era of globalized finance. The “Nixon Shock” reshaped the international monetary system overnight, and then gradually...
NEW YORK – The world stands at a critical juncture of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries that lack the first round of vaccine coverage are extraordinarily vulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant and are also seedbeds for new variants...
NEW YORK – How will the global economy and markets evolve over the next year? There are four scenarios that could follow the “mild stagflation” of the last few months. The recovery in the first half of 2021 has given way recently...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line-up of cartoons as...
Floyd Green’s penitence over the wrong he did has been generally agreed to have been the correct stance under the circumstances, but there is the possibility that the response of the government in the immediate aftermath has not been....
