When it comes to Haiti’s security, the international community, especially countries in the Caribbean and Africa, ought not to make the perfect, or even the best, the enemy of the good. Ordinary Haitians, for the most part, exist in abject...
THIS IS an invitation for the Government and the Opposition to take a wider view for the consequences from legislation for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Auditor General (the AUDGEN) to hold office after attaining the age of 60...
Short bursts of rain or overcast conditions in recent days have brought fleeting relief to Jamaica’s sweltering summer temperatures. That, however, does not indicate that the heatwave is over. The forecasts are for it to continue – and not just...
IT’S 2023 and social media continues to put careers, reputations and livelihoods at risk. With lawsuits, apologies and resignations flying left, right and centre in the past few weeks, it is a wonder that so many of us continue to operate in the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the opposition leader, Mark Golding, must urgently elicit from each of their members of parliament (MPs) if he or she has been advised of being the subject of an investigation by the Integrity Commission (IC) for...
In October 1968, Walter Rodney, the eminent historian of African history, was banned from his appointment teaching history at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He was also a political activist on behalf of the working masses. His...
For years, members of the Jamaican private sector have been identifying foreign languages as a barrier to exporting with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean where official languages are Spanish, Portuguese and French. Jamaica is an English...
This newspaper shares the Jamaica Environment Trust’s concern over the backsliding of government agencies in adhering to the Access to Information (ATI) law and repeat our call of more than a year ago for the legislation to be given real teeth to...
One of Gene Autry’s favourite domino mantras is “When in doubt, draw!” He means, if given a chance to play a double, unless there’s a compelling reason to decline the offer, play it. Doubles are the most difficult to separate from your hand so you...
Over the past two weeks, I have been closely following articles in the press pertaining to the Cornerstone Group and Barita Investments Limited. I am no financial expert, but the stories I read piqued my interest for several reasons. First, I have...
The guy who needed to chat as we waited for delayed flights at JFK in New York had graduated from a revered North Street institution before migrating. He was very bright. “Why you fight against us so hard”?, he attacked. “Don’t you realise that...
School spirit is like a seasoning – a sprinkle of enthusiasm, a dash of camaraderie, a pinch of pride – all meant to enhance the educational stew. But as any seasoned hurdler-cook like Don will tell you, too much of a good thing can ruin the dish...
Wherever he is now, T.P. Lecky would be rightly vexed, and other Jamaicans ought to be humiliated, by the advice of an American cattleman that the island should import breeding bulls to improve its cattle stock. The suggestion by Casey Jentz is not...
At the 2004 staging of the Calabash International Literary Festival, there was an inspiring session on the kindness of strangers. It featured “true tales of random global acts of kindness from the editors of Lonely Planet.” Tim Cahill, Don George...
Driving has become very tense, tedious, and technical. I drive defensively by surrendering my ‘right of way’ to avoid crashes with road hogs. In early December 2022, our prime minister publicly bemoaned Jamaica’s 448 road fatalities up to that date...
It is not Star Trek or some corny analogy, but the women have crossed another frontier yet to be celebrated by the deadlocked lawyer and the Chinese businessman. From one single defensive error, by Deneisha Blackwood, the hybrid of Carl Brown and...
This newspaper might, in other circumstance, have ignored the recent tirade by Trinidad and Tobago’s opposition leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, about the financial strength of the NCB Financial Group (NCBFG) and its subsidiary, Guardian Holdings...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck’s recent imperious manner in the House of Representatives in piloting an amendment to the foundation rules by which the society is governed was merely a follow-on from the open disrespect that the Jamaica Labour Party...
We were barely over the chaos created by a shutdown of the Norman Manley International Airport on July 21 when airport mayhem hit passengers at the busy Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Thursday, because of a runway closure. The...
In October 2006, in a presentation to the Rotary Club of downtown Kingston luncheon at the Hilton Hotel, I presented the Develop Jamaica Initiative (DJI) for the first time, and was invited back by the same body on March 16, 2016 and presented ‘...
With a general election in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday, I was asked by my friends, both local and foreign, “What is the difference between the two major parties, the People’,s National Movement (PNM) and the United National Congress (UNC)?” My...
Mike Henry, a government member of parliament and former minister, used to argue that a large part of Jamaica’s problem was that it didn’t count its people often enough, and when it did it tended to undercount them. The upshot, according to Mr...
I take note of The Gleaner editorial of Tuesday, August 8, titled ‘Campion or Glenmuir?’ advocating for a change in the standard to be used to determine the relative quality of our high schools. Agreeing with the recommendations of the 2021...
On Tuesday the World Bank Group released a statement on their website regarding Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, which was signed into law earlier this year in May. An excerpt from the statement is as follows: “Immediately after the law was...
I WILL, even before I realise, soon be completing three years in Jamaica. Never for once had I thought that I would fall in love with a place so far away from India and would effortlessly refer to it as my second home. Besides the welcoming people...
