Last week, National Integrity Action hosted a presentation on the findings and recommendations of their recent study of how effectively the Jamaican Legislature exercises oversight over the Executive. Then there were reports of the committee at...
As we observed on Saturday, the recent video of evidence of the collapse of personal hygiene at Kingston’s popular Crab Circle – and the grave threat to public health therefrom – calls for robust policing of the sale of street food across the...
In 2023, the debate over public access to Jamaica’s beaches gained momentum, fuelled by concerns raised recently by Opposition Leader Mark Golding. The discussion underscores the need for a comprehensive approach that safeguards public interests...
“Jamaica yes, Federation no!” That was the slogan of the Jamaica Labour Party for its 1961 campaign against regional integration. For the People’s National Party, the issue wasn’t either/or. Their rallying cry was “Jamaica yes, Federation Yes!”...
The big duty rebate on vehicles that government workers are allowed twice a decade was the big bugbear of the recent job reclassification and salary negotiations between the Holness administration and public sector unions. The finance minister,...
After the Morant Bay War and the 1938 labour uprising, the formula for keeping the goodwill of the electorate is to firmly have the working poor behind the party seeking to achieve or maintain power. This is simple human resources management. Let...
In June 2022, the Jamaican government announced its intention to abandon the Monarchy and become a republic by the time of the next general election in 2025. The process will include a two-thirds majority vote in Parliament and a referendum. I don’...
One does not easily depart from the expressed view of Dr Lloyd Barnett on issues relating to the Jamaican Constitution. I am however persuaded that he would readily acknowledge that there is always room for another considered viewpoint, another...
Everyone who eats street food knows there is a chance that the food could be contaminated. Prepared in the open where it may be exposed to flies, insects and rodents, the buying public cannot be assured that this food is stored in hygienic...
From Canada in the north to Argentina in the south, including the nations in the Caribbean, the nature of threats to democracy is undergoing a significant transformation. While traditional overthrow of governments has receded, other more sinister...
With the West Indies out of the picture completely, and the two top teams, England and New Zealand started the World Cup 2023 on Thursday, I thought of what to write for today, especially since tomorrow, Sunday, is the big game between India and...
This newspaper’s commitment to the transformation of Jamaica’s education system is persistent and of long standing. The call in Wednesday’s editorial for the government to table and debate two recent reports produced by consultants, both of which...
For some time now there has been a continuum of statements, requests, urgings, that have emphasised the need for a collective and collaborative national effort in order to effectively address the crime situation in Jamaica. And there is no doubt...
Even as they excoriate the government for failing to offer the island as a venue for matches in next year’s T20 Cricket World Cup, Jamaicans owe the Holness administration a fair hearing on its decision, while insisting on a bankable insurance on...
Heat! There has been no easing of temperatures for the better part of this year, there has also been no significant rainfall. The Mona Dam today is at 40 per cent capacity, whatever that means because accumulated silt over years must have seriously...
IT’S NOT every day that we get to see one of our leaders make a lofty promise and then deliver on it, on time and on target. So when it happens, we must rightly give praises and commendations where due. Minister of Education Fayval Williams...
It is appropriate to paraphrase Joseph Welch, a lawyer for the United States Army at Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist hearings nearly 70 years ago. Have they no sense of decency? In this case, the indecent are not in America rummaging around...
It remains dumbfounding that two years after the Patterson Commission delivered its report on overhauling Jamaica’s education system, the document has not been tabled in Parliament, and neither has the Holness administration engaged a full-throated...
“Tribal (global) war wi nuh want no more ah dat! Tribal (global) war ah nuh dat wi ah defend… No more war, no more war! Tribal (global) war wi nuh want no more ah dat!” - Tribal War, Little Roy Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil...
In my article of June 19, 2018, titled ‘Trade critical to achieving UN Goals’, I pointed to the importance attached to international trade in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Goal 17, addressing partnerships, points to...
The Government and the Opposition should keep two things in mind about the latest poll finding on the impeachment and recall of members of parliament (MPs): the ideas are popular with voters; and their implementation would be good for Jamaica by...
Across the galaxies, in fantasyland, Apocrypha, where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solved political problems by parable, Legal Affairs Minister Maline Malaprop was disturbed. The Apocryphan Opposition had threatened to frustrate her...
“Do you have any Queens?” “Go Fish.” “Do you have any Kings?” “Go Fish.” Yes, this is a game we may have played. Each player fishing for cards, in pursuit of as many pair as possible and ultimately winning the game. Today, scammers are on...
“Mi no confident him yet”! That was her declaration when I enquired why she was not thinking of getting married to her boyfriend. Never mind that the two of them had been “deh” for over eight years and were parents of the two children she had...
Nearly a year ago, this newspaper proposed Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley to succeed António Guterres as secretary general of the United Nations (UN) when the former Portuguese prime minister completes his second term at the end of 2026....
