World Mental Health Day is commemorated on October 10 every year. For those 24 hours, all eyes are on mental health and its impact. For persons living with a mental illness or struggling with mental health challenges, their families and friends,...
Recently, Gene Autry and I re-started playing tournament bridge together (online of course). We play on a website that offers a variety of tournaments for players worldwide. But the tournaments’ most attractive feature, as my beloved grandfather...
A constitution is supposed to reflect the basic elements of a covenant between the citizens of a nation state. The liberty of the subject is the first principle of constitutional order, not only as a good in itself but equally as to how individual...
It’s that time of year again when Christianity takes centrestage. My views on religion are not typical of the average Christian. Many Christians appear to believe that saying that they are Christian, acknowledging the concepts and precepts of...
It remains in his own and the country’s interest that Prime Minister Andrew Holness tell Jamaicans why the Integrity Commission (IC) has been unable to certify, and therefore publish, a summary of his assets and liabilities declaration for 2021....
Plans for the further upgrading of Montego Bay’s Sangster airport and new aerodrome in the western town of Negril are, on the face of it, good for the economy. They would, it seems, facilitate increased arrival of tourists, the island’s primary...
All predictions for the 2023 sargassum season are that it will be the worst on record! Scientists out of Florida have been ‘sounding the alarm’ for over a month and National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has repeatedly put a ‘Sargassum...
Justine Henzell excels at working behind the scenes. She really does not enjoy the limelight. By the way, the original ‘limelight’ is no longer in use. It has been replaced by the electric arc spotlight. The word’s meaning is now purely symbolic...
A few years ago, my father predicted that very soon we would see hardened criminals hijacking food trucks and other transport vehicles. This he believed was the inevitable result of the influx of guns into the island and the luxurious scamming...
Approximately 66,000 workers are direct employees of the Jamaica Government. The public sector utilises around 60 per cent of all of the security services provided by the private security companies. Just under 30,000 workers are employed by this...
In his Budget presentation last month, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced that $40 billion would be spent on improvement of the road network over a three-year period, starting in the upcoming financial year (RJR News March 9, 2023.) This...
Bun and cheese, painted eggs, lilies, chocolate and rabbits, are some of the Easter traditions that Jamaicans have embraced over the years. Easter marks the end of the Passion of Christ which begins at Lent, concluding during Holy Week, and...
Guyana has won a second judgment in an ongoing case against Venezuela, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, “to confirm the legal validity and binding effect” of an 1899 arbitration that determined the boundary between Guyana...
An English lord armed with a Merkel shotgun and riding his best thoroughbred hunting horse had very poor luck for the entire day. Then, as he was going home in disgust, he came upon a totally nude and voluptuous young lady lying naked on a...
There were the usual things to marvel at, and celebrate, from last week’s annual athletics championships for Jamaican high schools. There is probably no other place in the world where junior athletes, as happens year after year at Champs, for two...
AFTER WATCHING the two most spectacular individual performances in Champs history last week, I was very disheartened to hear not one, but two of our major evening drive-time news radio stations focus instead on the ugly scenes created by young...
Calls for local sports organisations to become more professional and business-like are usually made with little to no reference to the paid, dedicated human resources required to support such endeavours. This is one of the reasons why last year’s...
As a pioneer and invested party in the global discussions on mining the deep seabed for minerals, Jamaica should clarify its stance on suggestions in some quarters that it might be too dangerous for the world to follow through on that plan. Too...
Take you (imported goat) meat out mi rice! …If you wanted something to eat Man, take a fork and pick out you (imported goat) meat But if you have one grain a rice The Christ, I squeeze you throat like a vice! – Lord Kitchener Finance...
This year, Jamaica’s Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, commonly known as Champs, concluded on Saturday, April 1, with Kingston College retaining their 34th boys’ title and the...
Blue Hole, also known as Blue Lagoon, in Portland, is once again in the news, having been closed by the Portland Municipal Corporation (PMC) in August 2022 due to reported impacts to its environmental health. According to the chief executive...
Initiatives like the one launched in Montego Bay last week by the furniture retailer Courts to raise money to help students with their tertiary education are helpful. Montegonians will pay to take part in a charitable run. But even as we endorse...
The nation was glued to Wednesday’s interview of Cowboy Christie by an “oversight” Committee incongruously appointed to investigate Integrity Commission’s (IC’s) investigations of Public Officials including MPs. The spectacle was as intriguing as a...
The United Nations observed International Women’s Day on March 8, under the theme, DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality. The World Bank’s theme was Accelerating Equality and Empowerment. We should look seriously at the “shifting...
With the recent signing of the High Seas Treaty, which aims to help place 30 per cent of the ocean into protected areas by 2030, the ocean is finally starting to receive the attention it very much needs. The agreement between the countries of the...
