These 12th annual Domino Awards are, as usual, named for the players who sat around Gene Autry’s 1970s domino table, featuring that happy-go-lucky idler, the Dunce. First up are the International winners. Next week the much-anticipated Jamaican...
An entrepreneur can be considered the engine of society. They will create something out of nothing, take risks, see and seize opportunities where others hesitate. If such individuals are not allowed to exercise their talents in legitimate ways,...
Thankfully for the West Indies cricket team and the overseers of the game in the region, the team’s latest humiliation of Caribbean people happened in the midst of the football World Cup. Few noticed. Or perhaps people do not care anymore. Leave...
Every year at this season, our Judeo-Christian heritage bids us heed the story of a transcendent One, so besotted with love for His creation that He came among the least of us, with human identity, to reaffirm our respect, dignity and sacredness:...
I am sick and tired of hearing about, reading about and seeing online images of the [unnecessary] widespread carnage on our roads. The sight of vehicles mangled beyond recognition, and of human bodies that are severely injured, and/or dead, slumped...
The end of the year is often regarded as a time for deep reflection – an extensive analysis of where we are, how satisfied we are, what progress we’ve made, and where we go next. All in all, how do we make things better? For 2022, there were both...
Jamaica comes under close watch as its February 2023 date looms to address its strategic deficiencies in its regime to combat money laundering. The country is among 26 jurisdictions named in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) October 2022...
On December 28, 1781, a Dutch ship, Zorgue, bought by a Liverpool Syndicate and renamed Zong, docked in Black River, Jamaica, where it disembarked 208 of the originally forcibly embarked 442 enslaved Africans from what is today Ghana and Côte d’...
It is surprising that the island’s commercial banks haven’t responded to Richard Byles’ suggestion that they are stifling depositors out of interest income, while benefiting from the central bank’s sharp upward adjustments in the rates it pays on...
Nothing else across cultures elicits the raw emotions felt when supporting a football team. It is enough to make grown men, players and fans cry inconsolably. It is the primal instinct of cleaving to a clan that bonds fans together in support of...
Make no bones about it, I wanted to see a sub-Saharan African country in the semifinals and even final. Indeed, it would have meant the world to me had it been Ghana or Senegal, two countries where I believe my DNA originate. Nonetheless, Morocco...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Ascorden to one Gleaner report weh come out Monday gone, prime minister Andrew Holness keep one big meeting pon Internet fi di Jamaican dem a farin. Im talk bout how money a run inna di country, crime, state a emergency, di...
The distance between Beijing and Kingston is 13,422 kilometres. People may find it hard to connect two countries that are halfway across the world, but reality is the opposite. Jamaica has long enjoyed fame in China as the fastest country in the...
The grim fact that more than 450 people have been killed in traffic-related accidents so far this year is part of the larger ongoing tragedy that is playing out on Jamaican roads where reckless behaviour and lawlessness appear to be on the rise....
The closure of LIAT in 2020, without establishing air transport to fill the vacuum, has led to chaos in regional transportation, gravely affecting the movement of people and goods throughout the Caribbean region. Anyone who has tried to travel...
Dedicated to George and Sara Deyal for their support I have been a computer freak since the early 1970s when I included a piece of animation in my thesis. So, when a few days ago I got a new computer, a Dell 16, the first thing I did was check...
At the beginning of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution of Jamaica (Chapter 3) it states that “All persons in Jamaica are entitled to preserve for themselves and future generations the fundamental rights and freedoms...
The Collins Concise Dictionary, 21st Century Edition assigns to the word ‘amnesty’ the following meanings: 1. “A general pardon, especially for offences against a government”; and 2. “A period during which a law is suspended to allow offenders...
Children with disabilities and their parents are bombarded with a great deal of negligence and injustice in their daily lives that they are often left to face on their own. The costs for caring for a child with disability is exorbitant. There aren’...
There is a change taking place. People are championing their rights, underdeveloped countries are standing up against the historical wrongs, improper influences and overt or covert coercions of developed nations, demanding that they be recognised...
A few weeks ago, I was forced to publicly eat a bitter slice of humble pie in the form of a mea culpa to Educate Jamaica over the unfortunate cancellation of its annual high-school academic rankings. In that article, I acknowledged that my...
There is a growing tendency among Jamaican government officials to paint human-rights advocates as fifth columnists, working on behalf of criminals and against law-abiding citizens. They intend the ploy to be a counter to criticisms of the...
It’s inexplicable that after four years, Shaggy’s foundation and the managers of the Bustamante Hospital for Children haven’t found the ingenuity to settle how J$100 million raised by the entertainer for the paediatric facility should be deployed...
Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2022 | 12:28 AM
This week, following on from my article last week, I am addressing specifically the 10th Summit of Heads and State and Government of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) held in Luanda, Angola, December 9-10, 2022. It...
Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2022 | 12:26 AM
In July 2021, United States Congress unanimously passed a resolution ordering the American State Department to investigate and give a “detailed description” of the events surrounding the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise allegedly by US-...
