Richard Byles is legitimately worried that a tight labour market could spur wages and prices, making it more difficult for him to achieve his inflation target. But this concern is an opportunity for the central bank governor to throw the prestige...
Admittedly, the issue of climate change has not commanded the attention of the average Jamaican. Unlike the scourge of crime, the creeping cost of living and perennial allegations of corruption, climate change is just not the primary issue of...
“It seems that the rabid tribalism generated by high-school sports in Jamaica trumps all forms of reasoning, logic, community or national spirit or welfare. All stakeholders who have an interest in the proper education and socialisation of our...
This newspaper applauds the Government’s plan to “revamp and redo” Jamaica’s hodge-podge apprenticeship programme. But the new scheme – a fact that is no doubt fully appreciated by the people involved in this exercise – must be part of a broader...
IN THE past few weeks, we have had several interesting developments involving several publicly traded companies and some of their key personnel. Resignations, apologies and public explanations have been flying left, right and centre as the light is...
Twenty million tonnes of radioactive waste have been left behind in Niger by French companies engaged in rapacious uranium mining. Nigeriens are therefore subjected to high French uranium mining, toxic wastes that “will be radioactive for hundreds...
This newspaper is sympathetic to Mikael Phillips over the difficulties he says he encounters in convening meetings of Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC). Hopefully, those problems are not a ruse by government...
The 15th Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the members of the BRICS group of emerging economies started in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. In attendance are President of Brazil Luis Inácio Lula da Silva; Prime Minister of...
In Ghana, digital currency has demonstrated the power of technological solutions. Their successful implementation of mobile money shows how technology can help modernise the financial system. Jamaica can investigate how Ghana became the fastest...
Gene Autry and I were in trouble playing against Dessie and The Dunce. With the score five-five, we drew weak hands while Dessie held four pieces of trey including double-trey. The Dunce drew the other three. Dessie broke a fundamental domino rule...
Since neither Andrew Holness, the prime minister, nor Mark Golding, the opposition leader, would deliberately mislead Jamaicans, it is either that the Integrity Commission’s (IC) chief investigator, Kevon Stephenson, engaged in a semantical...
But for the vague notion that it is to deal with problems in the public transport system, it remains unclear what are the terms of reference of the committee recently established for the sector and who owns the group – the transport minister, Daryl...
I was walking up East Street, below East Queen Street, in the downtown Kingston in the area known as Tel Aviv some years ago when a taxi stopped in front of one of the homes run by the Missionaries of the Poor. A woman who I knew alighted, unfolded...
Efficient prehospital care plays a critical role in saving the lives of persons experiencing medical emergencies. In cardiac and respiratory emergencies, the focus is in performing early CPR, defibrillation, in field diagnostics (ECG telemetry),...
He has been tight-lipped when pressed. However, over the next few days, all will be revealed. What intrigue! It was evident that something was wrong when one looked at the means available to the individual which was clearly disproportionate to the...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING It look like seh nutten nah gwaan a Rockfort Mineral Bath. From March 2020, it lock down sake a Covid. All now it nuh open back. Covid lockdown done long, long time. From January 2022! Wa mek mineral bath still lock down...
I genuinely wish that I had (at least) some of the answers to our current problems. But the really scary thing is that it is clear that we are going to face serious problems in the future for which we don’t appear to be planning and, therefore,...
Fayval Williams last week delivered two bits of very encouraging news. First, the haemorrhaging of teachers from Jamaica’s classrooms has slowed dramatically this year. The forecast up to September, when the new school year begins, is for 72 per...
In an era of pending climate departure, with the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, which poses an existential threat to Small Island Developing States like Jamaica, environmental governance and management...
Jamaica’s scorching summer temperatures ought to be powerful reminders to architects, engineers and real-estate developers what their peers of long ago understood: their designs have to be relevant to the hot weather in which they exist. And...
Haiti needs “to get its political and governance act together”. That is among the important messages that UN Secretary General António Guterres delivered to the UN Security Council in a letter on August 14, 2023. Guterres’ letter was a response to...
A sadist and a masochist meet to satisfy their carnal desires. The masochist gives the sadist a whip and says “Beat me, beat me until I beg for mercy, then beat me some more.” The sadist says “No”. One of my readers, who has never missed any of my...
The prime minister’s recent tabling of job descriptions for parliamentarians is nothing more than a pitiful attempt to legitimise the astronomical pay hike he has granted himself and his colleagues. Were it anything else, then this would have...
I can understand the reluctance of pollster Don Anderson to declare positively that his poll findings over the last few months indicate a trend against the incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government, and in favour of the opposition People’s...
Many have had much to say regarding STATIN’s recent report on the April 2023 Labour Force Survey, which indicated that Jamaica recorded its lowest-ever unemployment rate of 4.5 per cent. The government should get its due. The unemployment rate has...
