If there was ever a time when human arrogance and selfishness were on display, it is now. And it is present on different sides of the COVID-19 vaccination divide. We all want to come out of this alive but, if that is the goal, we need to be humble...
If Dayton Campbell, the general secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP), is genuinely in search of redemption, he has to be open and honest in his quest, and prove that he is deserving of forgiveness. This is not a process that can be...
I am repeating myself without apology. If there is one area of national life that demands united thrust, it is education reform. We seem to be doing reasonably well right now with containing the worst ravages of COVID-19. Taming corruption and...
They crucified the perfect man 2000 years ago, so I do not expect any human being to be flawless. We are all given to weaknesses and shortcomings. However, representatives of the people should portray integrity, a respect for the law, honour,...
In the nearly five years since the fire at the 24-floor Grenfell Tower in London that killed 79 people, this newspaper has several times raised the question of fire safety and the capacity of the Jamaica Fire Brigade to respond should there be a...
The Jamaica Music Museum on Water Lane is housed in a former storeroom at the Institute of Jamaica. The exhibition gallery is approximately 1,000 square feet. It sounds even smaller in square metres: 92.9. The size of the museum tells you all you...
Anyone who has ever posted or created anything that enters the public domain immediately becomes fodder for the denizens of the comments sections. With the advent of social media, letters to the editor and call-in programmes are now relegated to...
On January 24, RJRGLEANER reported scary statistics from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). At 112 homicides, we had killed 15 per cent more of ourselves than we did in 2021. Two weeks later, the overall figure looks different. All major crimes...
Jamaica is experiencing a rapid economic recovery from the sharp and historic COVID-19-induced economic contraction of 2020/21. For economic growth to continue at levels higher than our historical average, however, it will be necessary for the...
Neither Prime Minister Andrew Holness nor Marlene Malahoo Forte, the minister he recently gave the job to marshal his constitutional reform agenda, has yet set out the Government’s priorities on this front. Neither have they said, or signalled, how...
I met Carey Robinson through my father, Hartley. Their careers as journalists and government servants ran parallel, and sometimes crossed. Both were foundation members of the Government Public Relations Office – the precursor of the JIS and the API...
Public outrage that Jamoy Pusey, the rogue taxi driver, who, with a car full of passengers, took the police on a wild chase through the Corporate Area on Monday, received station bail, is quite understandable. Anger over the callousness of the...
“What do fish mean in Jamaican?” This came from an online page ‘MotivationJob’ which, took the time and space to tell me what “Jamaicans say a lot”. I immediately knew that the Jamaican “fish” could not be a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal...
“No matter how briefly, and regardless of the circumstances, I should never have participated in any engagement that could indicate a lack of appreciation of the difficult and serious realities that now face the entire country. My actions have...
Here’s a rather bewildering story: 1) Police enter a Westmoreland community and request $300,000, which the citizens pay over to the police. 2) Police return and say they want $500,000, which is also paid over to the police. 3) Police return and...
It is not surprising that the recent relisting on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) by the Port of Spain-based Guardian Holdings did not create the same excitement as last week’s admission to the exchange of Massy, another Trinidadian conglomerate...
So, it is true! Wah nuh happen in a year, happen in a day! On Tuesday, just over 12 hours after The Gleaner published a list of 12-month-old questions that Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson had on multiple occasions committed...
THERE ARE times when the intoxicating euphoria of victory can easily hide the sobering reality of simultaneous defeat. The 2022 landslide general election victory for Prime Minister Mia Mottley and her Barbados Labour Party (BLP ) in some ways...
I FIRST set foot on the Mandeville campus of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in January 2004, when I was recruited by the head of the university’s Communication Studies Department to teach media and communications to undergraduate students....
NOTWITHSTANDING THE recency of the publication of the Patterson Commission report on reforming Jamaica’s education system, it is surprising that the Government is not yet robustly drumming up public discussion on its findings. It is not that the...
Boris Johnson probably wishes it were Jamaica, rather than Britain, of which he was prime minister. His ‘Partygate’ scandal would probably be embers. It is unlikely that more than six in 10 voters would be wishing for his resignation. And it is...
“Health, Education and Trade are essential to development”. I came across this recently as an essay topic. It is a factual statement especially for the small, middle-income developing countries in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Since 2020,...
The discussion on the fees charged for banking services requires a data-driven analysis in order to make an intelligent assessment of the pending increases that have been announced by our two dominant commercial banks. Banks earn their income from...
When Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson holds his press conference today, it will make one year to the day since he publicly promised to respond to a set of questions that sought to probe institutional problems we hear little about...
Jamaica’s judicial system has many serious challenges that need urgent attention. Stopping lawyers from advertising, or otherwise soliciting clients, unless done in a pompous, supercilious fashion, is not one of them. That, in part, is why we had...
