The effort by government to improve recycling habits across Jamaica deserves to be supported by all sectors, for it is good for the health, economic and environmental well-being of the nation. Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently announced that...
COP28 in Dubai, presided over by a major oil-producing nation, has ended with a compromise that, depending on one’s perspective, either represents a milestone or underscores the persistent inadequacies in confronting the climate crisis. From the...
If, as the poet Robert Browning wrote, “Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare,/ The house for me no doubt, were a house in the city-square;/ Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there!” In Trinidad, we have to...
Christmas is principally a Christian celebration of deep theological and human significance. The broad storyline of our existence – creation, fall, redemption – begins to reach its climax when the creator becomes part of his own creation – “a...
It’s strange that the leaders of Britain’s Supreme Court – whose justices also sit as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) – have plonked themselves into what is essentially a political debate over whether Jamaica should leave...
Suppose you are anorexic. Even though you are only 100 pounds, you feel like a hippo. Further, you have a chronic fear of getting any fatter, so you put yourself on a really restrictive diet and start working out constantly. You cry sometimes...
Westminster-style Cabinet government assumes collective responsibility and does not admit to private or individual policy. When ministers speak, they do so on behalf of the collective. So, when they hold, and publicly declare, positions that are...
There were no hitches. No urgent bathroom calls. No apparent geopolitical diversions. The communication lines between the foreign ministry in downtown Kingston and the UN headquarters at 405 E 45th Street, Manhattan, New York, seemed to work. This...
THIS YEAR’S COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai comes seven years after the signature of the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, which signalled a watershed moment in the international approach to the climate crisis, with a legally binding, near-global...
WORLD ANTI-CORRUPTION Day was last Saturday, December 9. And if you missed it, you would be forgiven. World Anti-Corruption Day has the unfortunate distinction of being sandwiched between three heavyweight holidays – Turkey Day, Black Friday, and...
Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 12:06 AM
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has said that a lack of oxygen was the likely cause of last weekend’s big fish kill at the eastern end of Kingston Harbour. Which most people did not need anyone to tell them. While the agency...
Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 12:06 AM
Interstate armed conflict has been rare in the Western Hemisphere in the 20th and 21st centuries. Except for the situation involving migrants at the United States’ southern border with Mexico, there has hardly been any uncontrolled situations or...
So a young lawyer with a chequered past has been denied his professional livelihood for two years because he lewdly abused a colleague. From the outset (2017), due to a criminal record, permission for Isat “Little Youth” Buchanan to practice law...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But what is the definition of ‘genocide’? According to the Genocide Convention (1951), genocide means: Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic,...
There are not too many opportunities to celebrate Jamaican government agencies for the quality of their customer service and general efficiency. That is because too few of them are worthy of it. The National Health Fund (NHF) breaks that mould....
The reported break-in and theft of laptops at the collapsed, fraud-riddled investment house, Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), clearly demands robust investigation. The reflex assumption will be that this was no random act of thievery, but an...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its associated technologies have increasingly become integral to various industries. In Jamaica, many institutions are still grappling with the profound impact AI is having, and will continue to have, on the future...
I contend that every economic and political decision, indeed even personal ones, involves a moral position. Always there is some view of person or community behind individual choice, national and foreign policy. When the unlamented Kissinger said...
When I opened my US credit card statement last month, I couldn’t believe it. All I could say was, NCB too wicked. I had forgotten to pay a bill for $3.17. Because it’s a recurring charge, I hadn’t paid attention to the fact that I’d actually made...
Whatever the arguments made against the accuracy of the voter-turnout for last week’s referendum, it is not surprising that Venezuelans voted overwhelmingly in favour of asserting sovereignty over the two-thirds of neighbouring Guyana claimed by...
Across the world and in Jamaica, December 10 is being recognised as International Human Rights Day. It was on this date in 1948 – 75 years ago – that the nations of the world agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 21...
My last column spoke to transgenderism and the way that it is affecting our perception of reality. In it, I used the word ‘gender’ as I would the word ‘sex’. Of course, as expected, several people have said that I was incorrectly conflating (...
At last count there were almost 40,000 Venezuelans seeking to escape their country and finding refuge in Trinidad and Tobago. Never mind the fact that Guyana is actually part of South America and thus, geographically not Caribbean, it is absolutely...
We imagine that a majority of Jamaicans harbour the hope that one day the country will return to its safe, peaceful state. The growing clamour for a more peaceful way of life within a gentler society is heard repeatedly in both public and private...
Jamaica has the highest murder rate in the Caribbean and is ranked 10th in the world. With this murder rate, wouldn’t be surprised if Jamaica is also one of the most undisciplined countries in the world. Sexual and domestic violence, half-crazed,...
