“Jamaica’s Annual Report” to the American government, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was submitted on July 12. Jamaica’s Energy Policy (2009-2030) was among the things discussed in this report to America’s financial watchdog. Section D-...
This newspaper is heartened by the level-headedness with which the island’s political parties responded to last week’s murder of Ainsley Parkins, a People’s National Party (PNP) councillor in the St Catherine local government. Our concern is that...
So PM was in St Elizabeth recently for another handing over ceremony under Government’s H.O.P.E. programme. Houses were handed over in Burnt Savannah, Barton Wharf, Paradise, Thornton and Oxford Settlement. While on his ribbon cutting tour, he was...
As a widowed father of five, raised by a single father himself, I find myself deeply invested in the unfolding Jamaican saga involving Dante Dacres and his mother, Paula Richards. Lascelve Graham’s insightful commentary in The Gleaner of July 20,...
If the logic of the deputy Speaker, Juliet Holness, rolls over to tomorrow’s sitting of Parliament, the auditor general’s (AuG) special report on aspects of the National Works Agency (NWA) will be tabled. If it is not, the public will be kept in...
Digital currencies can revolutionise the economy and foster growth through improved e-commerce, they provide safer and more convenient ways to conduct business transactions. However, the introduction of digital currencies in Jamaica has not got the...
More than most else, Jamaicans want to be respected. We are used to hardships, but intolerant of being violated – both physically by the abrogation of our freedoms, as well as mentally when people, especially ‘ginals’ and the powerful, try to give...
By the time I met Claudette Kemp, she was the skillful manager of Clifton ‘Capleton’ Bailey, the fireman. Capleton, also known as King Shango, King David and the prophet, had taken on the identity of biblical royalty. You might think that it could...
The opinion of a little black man in a tiny black country invisible from space may not matter to the most powerful set of people on Earth. However, sometimes wisdom is right at one’s feet. In the 1820s, when the groundswell in the British Empire,...
We grew up hearing that we must save for a rainy day, save for emergencies, save to buy a house, save for a car, save for retirement, save for the future, save for this, that, and the other. Once upon a time, many habitual savers could [literally...
“... Cities with more green spaces can stay cooler in hot weather and provide fairer lives for their residents ... . Clear evidence links the state of equality in cities to tree cover... .” informs Victoria Masterson of the World Economic Forum on...
Last week’s revelation that the Ministry of Finance has been forced to bail out Petrojam with a J$5-billion working capital loan because creditors cut off lending cries out for further and better particulars, including what analysis went into the...
Raw sewage flowing in the streets of downtown Kingston is just one of the consequences of infrastructure failure when facilities continue to be operated beyond their design life. Experts say water, energy and transportation utilities are at risk...
In the face of unremitting climate change threats and unfulfilled promises from industrialised nations, leaders of small island states have courageously taken matters into their own hands. Their frustration with lacklustre funding and inadequate...
Even though Rudyard Kipling wrote in “The Ballad of East and West” that “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet”, fortunately for me I first met the Twain through his first book. I was just a few years old and got a copy of...
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Maybe I have become impatient in my old age. I am schooled by the history of my beloved...
Folks shouldn’t be too harsh on Floyd Green. He meant well. He may just have been badly tutored, or the recipient of bad examples, on the separation of powers. Given Mr Green’s capacities, that is nothing that a short treatise on the subject –...
Why exactly do we send our kids to school, especially long after they have already learned the basics of reading, writing and counting? Is it so they can land a good job when the time comes or is it because we believe school will make smarter men...
The administration’s plan to develop a national policy on artificial intelligence (AI) is a sensible development. But as we suggested previously, Jamaica should go further with this initiative. It should attempt to make it a regional project,...
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! I lift my hat and commend highly the very courageous single mother, businesswoman Ms Paula Richards, who has taken on single-handedly the grotesque juggernaut into which our education/socialisation system has morphed. Through...
Yesterday’s publication of the Educate Jamaica 2023 High School Academic Rankings was in many ways surprising, but fairly unsurprising in others. For me personally, I was quite surprised at the extent to which some of our girls’ schools have fallen...
Last week, I looked at the decisions from the 45th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Port of Spain on External Trade Negotiations. Among the decisions, heads decided that the region should prepare for and engage in negotiations to update...
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions!” – St Bernard of Clairvaux Jamaican poor people and the middle class have been plagued by high light bills. While the average price, comparative charges for electric services in America, is US$...
Haldane Davies, president of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), did not tell Jamaicans anything they might not have assumed about his own institution, or higher education in general: that there is a yawning gender gap in favour of...
Christopher Tufton warned Jamaicans, especially those who have to spend time outdoors, to protect themselves against the hot summer temperatures that have gripped the island. But neither Dr Tufton nor the Government has gone far enough on this...
