In 2021, the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine decided to call breastfeeding ‘chestfeeding’ and refer to women as “human milk-feeding individuals”. Since then, some hospitals in the United Kingdom have instructed nurses and midwives to use the term...
The Caribbean needs greater political leadership and investment in evidence-informed initiatives to bridge the gaps within and among communities living with and most affected by HIV and to address inequalities to end AIDS as a public-health threat...
As unlikely as it appears in the specific circumstance, there is a possibility that House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert could be deemed to be on the right side of law in overturning the decades-old parliamentary practice of tabling forthwith...
The credibility of the Government and of the entire political order is repeatedly threatened – most often by political actors scoring own goals. At least the tacit approval by the governed of what lawmakers and law enforcers are doing is essential...
Guyana faces some clear and present dangers in the area of environmental security. By environmental security I mean circumstances where environmental-related/caused problems severely compromise the ability of state power holders to exercise normal...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Tuesday gone, THE STAR put out one story weh Ruddy Mathison did write bout di situation wid Councillor Steve Graham. Im did read one speech fi Mr Romond Fisher, chairman a di board, at di Old Harbour Primary School...
You may not know, but prominent backbone Labourite Audley ‘Man a Yard’ Shaw used to be a member of the People’s National Party (PNP). And there have been many others. We do know that former labour minister and veteran politician Karl Samuda is a...
I know that no one is above the law. Therefore, relevant individuals must comply with The Integrity Commission Act (2017). However, I am somewhat peeved at the fate of the doctors who are hauled up for their sins of omission. Doctors who are full-...
Last week’s ruling by the Privy Council in the Ray Morgan case highlighted how laxity and bungling in Jamaica’s criminal judicial system led to another of the island’s far too frequent instances of miscarriage of justice. But this matter...
New research has shown that Jamaicans developed one of the most important innovations of the British industrial revolution. Now as global societies enter the fourth industrial revolution, the question is will they get the benefit of their...
The feel-good, all-empowering time is upon us in Jamaica once more as students graduate from various schools. From kindergarten to university, thousands of students are donning robes and goofy mortar board styled hats, as they parade at these...
Haiti’s non-elected president, Dr. Ariel Henry, has been identified as a significant part of the current crisis in Haiti. Henry and a small clique, who surround him, are hardly running the affairs of the state. Indeed, as armed gangs control more...
While many people with handicaps are the bees knees, or outstanding in their own rights, it is the squeaky wheels that get the grease. This is why the handicapped are also the butts of all kinds of terrible jokes like, “What do you call handicapped...
It is often said that the Chinese word for “crisis” is a composite of two characters, one meaning “danger” and the other meaning “opportunity”. Purists disagree, asserting that the second character has multiple meanings, and in isolation means...
Life is so much harder when you have to do it without water. It feels like Jamaicans can’t catch a break between this ongoing drought and the sweltering heat here in the land of wood and water. The heat is largely out of our control. The chronic...
It is not enough for the People’s National Party (PNP) to characterise the fallout in its Westmoreland Western constituency over Ian Hayles’ election as the party’s candidate for the next general election as sour grapes over the outcome of a...
THE MISSING submersible, Titan, in the Atlantic Ocean had been the focus of all the world’s major media houses since it disappeared on June 18 on a commercial voyage to the site of the wreck of the infamous RMS Titanic. The Titanic sank on April...
Hopefully, Floyd Green, Jamaica’s mining minister, is paying attention to, and thinking strategically about, the latest in the tit for tat between the United States and China over access to resources that are critical to their high-technology...
SOCIAL MEDIA is a lot like Brooklax. It has its uses, but that doesn’t mean you have to enjoy it. It’s also been described as the place where lies come to life and the truth goes to die. But a few months ago, social media demonstrated that it’s...
We empathise with the national security minister, Horace Chang, in his lament of building contractors being cavalier with government jobs. But the minister’s complaint suggests deeper problems than he admitted in his recent remarks to the Jamaica...
Perusing the communiqué of the 45th Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government held last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, there are two matters on the agenda which caught my attention. These were under the CARICOM Single Market and...
June 23 was observed as a National Day of Mourning for children who have been victims of violence and abuse. According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force, in 2022, more than 1,800 children were victims of murder and sexual offences, including rape....
I watched an 11-minute recorded video of an interview with fish farmer Donnie Bunting on July 7 on the subject of the restocking of the Rio Cobre with Tilapia, following the disastrous fish kill, which occurred in July 2022, allegedly caused by...
First set to Lloyd Carney. On Friday, he announced that Kevin Brown, an academic and aerospace engineer who lately worked at the global aerospace company Rolls Royce, will in September become the president of the University of Technology (UTech),...
It would be more than an insult to the people of St Thomas for Jamaica to move into a republic with the Princess Margaret Hospital still celebrating the British monarchy. In the first place, there should not have been a monument to the monarchy in...
