Almost two centuries later, we are conflicted, it seems, over whether slavery still affects us today. Because many are of the view that it doesn’t, they say the call for reparations is unnecessary and is only taking us back into the past. I suppose...
THE WAR between Russia and Ukraine continues with little sign of an end to hostilities. Both sides have increased the use of their propaganda machinery and with the West throwing their weight behind Ukraine, it has become overwhelming in many...
Light skinned (white) peoples, Europeans, bear the guilt, the blame, the full responsibility for the crime against humanity dubbed the transatlantic slave trade, with its horrendous middle passage, where millions of dark skinned (black) peoples...
Dr Adrian Stokes, the economist and financial analyst, is a credible choice to lead the team Prime Minister Andrew Holness intends to appoint to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the Patterson Commission on reforming Jamaica’s...
There should be a greater takeaway from Michala Virgo’s story, published in this newspaper on Monday, than one mother’s concern for her daughter’s well-being and her wish to keep the young girl’s dream alive. The bigger issue is the post-pandemic...
People around the world are organising international caravans that are aimed at demanding that America lift the 60-year-old economic embargo against Cuba, which has created terrible hardships. This cruel economic embargo was imposed in 1962....
A lot has been happening in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), involving CARICOM countries, which, except for a few articles, have mostly gone under the radar in the region. DUBAI 2020 EXPO Dubai has been hosting a world exposition from...
It is a notable and welcome development that the police arrested nearly a dozen of their own for allegedly being the core of a criminal gang, and for conspiring to commit murder and other crimes. But it would be wrong to equate these arrests with...
In Apocrypha, our favourite fantasy land beyond the stars, public health authorities found themselves in a conundrum. Despite less than 25 per cent full vaccination against a raging global pandemic, Government removed restrictions it had placed on...
I have been living with depression for most of my life. It was first diagnosed in my late teens when I realised my mood would sometimes sink very low, to the point where it would affect my daily functioning. Since then, my journey has been an...
Having already advised Audley Shaw of the need for a new, more inclusive approach to the mining and refining of Jamaica’s remaining bauxite reserves, this newspaper now urges him to put his mind to something else that might lead to the island...
Isn’t a state of emergency supposed to jolt us out of complacency and stimulate new consciousness and behaviour? The most important display we showed off last week to Mr and Mrs William and Kate Mountbatten-Windsor was at the Caribbean Military...
Certainly, all Jamaicans remember this very sad and distressing newspaper headline from late last year, ‘Jamaican songbird Karen Smith has died, ending her one-year battle with colon cancer’. Colorectal cancer respects nobody; it can affect any of...
Someone once asked why I named my practice Windsor Wellness if I professed to be such a republican. I replied tongue in cheek that if the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family can take their name from a castle they lived in, then I can likewise appropriate the...
Now that Prime Minister Andrew Holness has directly intimated to a future British sovereign Jamaica’s intention to break with the monarchy and become a republic, we hope that his administration will fast-track the move rather than engage in a long...
What a spectacle it was. The celebrity couple, their Royal highnesses … came, saw and … hmmm … did they conquer? Honestly, I would have liked for our indigenous ‘Royalty’ L A Lewis to be accommodated. Truth is, he is such an unpredictable soul,...
In 2002, Boris Johnson wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph in which he reported the following: “It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies...
A global group of scientists and experts known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have for several years provided scientific guidance to international governments in an effort to advance action on global warming. The latest...
There is a recruitment drive afoot to double Cadet Units in the nation’s schools. Distinct for being the oldest uniformed group in the island, the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF) is among groups partnering with the Ministry of Education in its...
The budget debates are usually laden with a predictable list of overused punchlines, illuminated with lots of melodrama, in an attempt to warn us about, and rescue the nation from, an allegedly uncaring government. Usually, items from the ‘typical...
The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) boasts that it is “the Caribbean region’s leading multimedia organisation dedicated to excellence in communication services” and “its developmental mission is to work with media houses in the region to...
Since 2018 I have had the honour to be accredited as part of the official delegation of the Holy See to the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Early in the 27th session last Monday at the Jamaica Conference Centre, in their opening remarks...
As children, I am sure we all had at least one experience where we were forced to apologise for something we did not want to apologise for. The classic non-apology apology – oh, how many we’ve rendered. The exchange of forced apologies would...
This newspaper supports Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s declared commitment to fiscal prudence and his insistence that demands that Government spend more on social programmes be accompanied by clear explanations of how bills will be paid and...
A RECENT Reuters report highlighted death threats directed at school boards in the United States of America (USA) for, among other things, a change in policy with respect to the teaching of America’s racial history. In America, in education, racial...
