Published:Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 12:07 AM
Africa is being bullied by America to take the side of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Russia-Ukraine war. This is a war, His Excellency Pope Francis said, “was provoked by NATO barking at Russia’s door”. Except for America’s...
Published:Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 12:06 AM
The inaugural Afri-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022) was held in Barbados, September 1-3, with the aim of promoting trade and investment between the CARICOM countries and countries of Africa. This forum was organised by the African...
Intergenerational trauma, also referred to as generational, transgenerational or multigenerational trauma, is trauma that is passed from trauma survivors to their descendants. People experiencing this can display symptoms, behavioural patterns and...
On March 25, 2017, Peter Phillips became PNP’s fifth president. Thirteen months earlier, under Portia “Do-I-Look-Like-a-Loser” Simpson-Miller, its most charismatic leader since Michael Manley, PNP suffered a shocking general election loss every...
It would be irresponsible of Antony Anderson, the police commissioner, if he maintained a public silence on his boss Horace Chang’s encouragement of a shoot-to-kill, take-no-prisoners approach by police officers in confrontations with criminals....
I’m beginning to understand why there are still so many Jamaicans who feel safer under the protection of King Charles, his Privy Council and other colonial trappings. Stack up some of the rantings from national leaders last week against the...
On Thursday, September 1, The Gleaner quoted the mayor of Spanish Town, His Worship Norman Scott, when he stated that, “… the time has come for the Government to revisit the no-user-fee policy in Jamaica’s public hospitals”. As a medical...
The legal faux pas over Rocky Meade’s appointment as Jamaica’s Cabinet secretary, and his retreat even before he started the job, again raises serious questions about the approach to certain aspects of decision-making in the Holness administration...
“Access to justice is a very important part for improvement for a better Jamaica”; so Justice Minister Delroy Chuck declared emphatically in The Sunday Gleaner on September 4. It is the kind of declaration that is expected, particularly, from all...
We are currently ‘mourning’ the death of Queen Elizabeth II and will be doing so until September 19, notwithstanding the fact that in reality, life has been totally unimpacted for the average Jamaican. It seems many have been expressing their...
“He is too good looking to go prison, him guilty yes but mi couldn’t say so!” This is an actual quote overheard by an unnamed bystander as the police officer, who investigated the case, out of earshot, literally cried tears. Such is a jury trial....
Every single time there is a proposal for more draconian measures to rein in the terrorists who spill our blood without a second thought, the human rights groups appear, condemning with full force. It goes without saying that the ‘shoot to kill’,...
The three individuals or companies who agreed to the disclosure that they helped to pay the public relations bill for Kamina Johnson Smith’s run for Commonwealth secretary general’s post get it. Robert Nesta Morgan, the de facto information...
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2022 | 12:05 AM
Jamaicans who believe that strong opposition parties are good for democracy will welcome Mark Golding’s claims about the health of the People’s National Party (PNP) finances and the party’s promise to return to publishing audited accounts....
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2022 | 12:05 AM
The government cannot, regardless of how much it spends on education, every year, provide our children with world-class education and training, if the education ministry continues to be so limp and prefers to tiptoe around our educators. Multiple...
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2022 | 12:05 AM
After I got badly sunburnt in the sea last Saturday, my friends asked me to write an article on fishing. I took the bait because one thing I know is that good things come to those who bait and I am a master-baiter. I have allure. I give away...
The agreement between the Government and 13 church organisations to train thousands of congregants in restorative justice practices is a welcome development, which this newspaper hopes can be rapidly scaled up to afford swathes more people the...
Recent polls of public opinion show that political apathy is not in decline in Jamaica, as both our major political parties – largely in vain – stump for supporters. With runaway crime and corruption widely believed to be the two main failures of...
As I read David Salmon’s column, ‘We don’t want your patois, UWI’, published on September 8, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief. I had thought it was common sense for those who know absolutely nothing about a technical subject to first ask...
Published:Thursday | September 15, 2022 | 12:08 AM
As a political partisan, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, on the face of it, has good reason to celebrate. Jamaicans continue to rate him, and his party, the figurative ‘streets and lanes’, ahead of the Opposition. But as the chief steward of...
Published:Thursday | September 15, 2022 | 12:07 AM
The United Nations’ commemoration of September 15, 2022 as International Democracy Day calls for us to ‘uphold and promote the principles of democracy’. Jamaica is now taking democracy for granted. Like the old slippers at the back door that...
Well, the Premier League is back, and despite early worries about my beloved Liverpool, I think it is safe to say that sports fans across the world are in high spirits now that regular service has resumed following two years of COVID-19 enforced...
Published:Wednesday | September 14, 2022 | 5:59 AM
The latest trek by Jamaican teachers from the classroom, mostly for jobs abroad, has reignited the episodic debate about training people specifically for jobs abroad – an idea that has the support of Prime Minister Andrew Holness. “I believe it is...
There is currently a discussion on Twitter about the quality of education in Jamaica. A question posed by a Twitter user, for example, asked respondents to give their honest thoughts about the quality of the education they got in Jamaica. First, I...
Published:Wednesday | September 14, 2022 | 12:06 AM
“Mauritius’ economy has made great strides since independence in 1968 and is now classified as an Upper-Middle-Income economy. Key challenges include managing the transition to a knowledge-based economy and adapting to the impacts of climate...
