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Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2022 | 12:38 AM

It’s been a minute since we visited Apocrypha, that Fantasyland beyond the stars where all politicians are friends and retired MP Oma D’Unn solves political problems with parables. Oma started by advising his best friend and political opponent R.U...

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2022 | 12:37 AM

Last week’s report of efforts by a cross-discipline group of The University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturers to develop software to help children improve their reading and comprehension is the kind of news of which there is not enough. It also,...

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2022 | 12:31 AM

We have been seeing black players in Brazil’s football teams for decades, the most famous being Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé, considered by many to be the GOAT (greatest of all time). In this year’s FIFA World Cup, we see them in the teams...

Published:Monday | December 12, 2022 | 5:29 AM

Two months ago Antony Anderson, the constabulary’s chief, found little to complain about in Security Minister Horace Chang’s shoot-to-kill advice to police who find themselves in confrontation with alleged criminals. “I hear calls all over the...

Published:Monday | December 12, 2022 | 12:13 AM

At last, some straight thinking from Mr Audley Shaw regarding the dangerous mayhem of the taxi system. He is reported as recognising that serious retraining is required for those entrusted to transport the public. I hope he is serious. He calls it...

Published:Monday | December 12, 2022 | 12:12 AM

The main treatment of large, bulging, painful boils (abscess) is not painkillers. In order to manage that potentially serious, sometimes deadly problem, they must be opened and the ‘root’ dealt with properly. In order to manage abscesses properly...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 12:29 AM

Resulting from observations that I made in a recent article in The Sunday Gleaner concerning the silence surrounding the hurdles in the way of unhindered access to Jamaica’s final court of appeal, a colleague attorney made a direct enquiry of me in...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 12:28 AM

This newspaper welcomes the Holness administration’s willingness to seriously consider the proposal for a privately developed and operated prison, but with a proviso. The Government must simultaneously, or even ahead of any negotiations with the...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 12:27 AM

A few years ago, a house around the corner from my home was being renovated. There was constant noise pollution from the building site. Day and night! One morning, at approximately 1 a.m. when I just couldn’t take the stress any longer, I got out...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 12:27 AM

Last Sunday my column delved into the claims of the chairman of the Police Federation that basic supplies were lacking in the constabulary force, hampering his charges’ efforts at carrying out their duties. I called for an audit to assess the...

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2022 | 12:27 AM

Now that Croatia has effectively ‘bread bagged’ the Samba dancers, Jamaica really needs new heroes and the best place to look is internally. Cameroon had dropped a Bob Marley ‘one-love’ on December 2, telling us that we need to acknowledge...

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2022 | 12:14 AM

Matthew Samuda encapsulated the issue quite succinctly. Jamaica faces existential dangers from global warming and climate change. But the real risks are not from the uber events, like, say, “cataclysmic category-five hurricanes”, although those are...

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2022 | 12:10 AM

Gang violence, particularly in schools, and directed at schoolchildren, is fast becoming a grave concern throughout the Caribbean. Recent reports of schoolchildren being attacked by hooded gangs with knives and cutlasses and suffering serious...

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2022 | 12:09 AM

I have been a football player, coach and sports nut all my life. So, when my wife got angry because I was not helping here prepare lunch and gave me an ultimatum that I either choose her or the football game, I thought a moment and then responded...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 12:30 AM

The first criticism I ever heard of the high school curriculum was that students were not being taught how to file taxes and open bank accounts. The criticism, which I have heard many times since, is usually followed with a disquisition on how...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 12:29 AM

The debate stirred by Damion Crawford’s call for a hike, from 16 to 18, of the age at which Jamaicans can legally consent to sex is another reminder that the Holness administration has unfinished business with respect to the Sexual Offences Act, on...

Published:Friday | December 9, 2022 | 12:05 AM

No one could argue that simply raising the age of consent from 16 years to 18 years old is going to prevent or even reduce teenage pregnancy. I do not understand this to be what Senator Damion Crawford, opposition spokesman on education, is...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 8:18 AM

Most Jamaicans will concur with Keith Duncan's lament over the island's anti-corruption agencies' inability, thus far, to land the 'big fish' of shady dealings, and the cynicism that this breeds among ordinary folk. What Mr...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 12:25 AM

Sound urban development can transform the social and economic fabric of a nation. It allows us to accelerate our progress and remain viable in a continuously evolving world. By getting it right, cities can contribute to the unification of a...

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2022 | 12:23 AM

Whistleblowers. Sources. Tipsters. Whatever you prefer to call them, this special group of persons are a conflicted lot. At once, celebrated and praised for speaking up against dishonest practices and bringing about valuable changes to society, but...

Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2022 | 12:08 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on our lives and on our societies. It has also reinforced the power and potential of digital technologies to advance public health. Indeed, countries that leveraged digital innovations were better...

Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2022 | 12:07 AM

Judging by how he has teased the idea, Nigel Clarke’s proposed tax incentives for US$1 billion minimum investments will be more lucrative than anything now on the books for any sector of the Jamaican economy. If our interpretation of the finance...

Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2022 | 12:06 AM

The member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) have faced this week with a clash of summits. The eighth CARICOM/Cuba meeting of Heads...

Published:Tuesday | December 6, 2022 | 12:06 AM

During the 1970 World Cup Football Finals (won by a Brazilian team led by the one true G.O.A.T.), dominoes were played only on “rest days”. Only 16 nations qualified in 1970, so there were rest days even during the group stages. But adjustments had...

Published:Tuesday | December 6, 2022 | 12:05 AM

There is a propensity among Jamaican officials to blame an absence of civic mindedness by citizens, and their supposed disregard for hygiene, for the squalor that exists in public spaces and in sections of too many public institutions. The solid...

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