As Christians, we worship Jesus and so we should. But why should we worship Jesus? The answer might seem obvious, but it is not as obvious as one might be inclined to think. We should worship Jesus for the right reason. If we worship Jesus for the...
When Fayval Williams updated Parliament recently on the ongoing effort to resume face-to-face classes in Jamaica’s schools, she referenced a World Bank argument that the Government needed to allocate between $2.4 billion and $3.9 billion per annum...
Despite a week of multiple murders, I dare to posit that the worst circumstance relating to our long-term national security is the reality that some 40 per cent of schoolchildren cannot be found or have not returned to school. The preacher at the...
More and more, I’ve been noticing a very disturbing and potentially dangerous trend; many people are living in denial of COVID-19. Only a few days ago, my wife went to a popular jewellery store on the Constant Spring Road shopping strip. She...
The Forestry Department has designated the Cockpit Country as falling within five parishes: St James, St Elizabeth, Trelawny, Manchester and St Ann, while also bordering on the cusp of Hanover, Westmoreland and Clarendon. The Cockpit spans five...
The new, and first female head of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, should explain more precisely what it is about the declaration of states of emergency that makes them especially effective in crime-fighting,...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Nuff a di Seventh-Day Adventist dem inna Jamaica backward, backward, backward. Mi couldn’t believe it when mi hear seh di President a di North Jamaica Conference, Dr Karl Archer, interview Dr Burnett Robinson fi di talk show...
Maybe Transport and Mining Minister Audley Shaw and Rev Dr Rohan Ambersley, of the Sterling Castle New Testament Church of God, live in different countries, because they didn’t make the connection with the other. Thank God for the sociology; we...
While politicians oscillate between outrage and sorrow at the murder rate, the perpetrators of these heinous crimes walk freely in their own sovereign states within Jamaica. The Gulag Archipelago is a non-fiction literary work by Russian writer and...
I WAS in the Bahamas working with health department employees, community leaders and hospital staff on dengue prevention. When we wrapped up a session, one of the participants who knew I was staying at the Atlantis asked, “So you’re in the casino...
Rejecting the accusations of bullying and despotism that were levelled at Mia Mottley, the overwhelming majority of the electorate of Barbados returned her and her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to government for a second consecutive term at a general...
KIERON POLLARD, the captain of the West Indies limited-overs cricket team, was refreshingly frank about his team’s failings in their 2-1 defeat by Ireland in their recent One-Day International (ODI) series, and the generally poor state of batting...
THE EVENTS of the last few days, involving the Accompong Maroons, under the leadership of their elected chief, Richard Currie, have reminded us that the Maroon-Jamaica relationship continues to be a festering topic. This unspoken truth became...
ONE OF the greatest obstacles to robust discourse is oftentimes an appeal to what the law says. Those with legal training especially have a tendency to turn every discussion on morality and ethics into one about the law. Since it is not obvious...
NOW THAT Kavan Gayle, a government senator and head of the trade union aligned to the ruling party, has added his voice to the matter, the administration may be inclined towards a robust discussion of how Jamaica might implement an unemployment...
THE CORONAVIRUS or Sars-Cov-2 and its mutations are living up to the verse of the song – “There’s been so many things that held us down. But now it looks like things are finally coming around. I know we’ve got a long way to go, and where we...
LET’S GET one thing clear right now. Michael Jordan (MJ) is the greatest basketball player ever. Period. And for the millennials whipping out their keyboards to chastise me now about LeBron James, let me just say that statistics don’t always tell...
MARK GOLDING’S sniffy response to Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ reorganising of the Government was entirely predictable. But the PM’s mostly uninspiring assignments made it easier for the Opposition leader to sneer. Mr Golding called the prime...
THE DEVIL, as this newspaper is wont to remind, is usually in the details. That is why, last May, we warned against any popping of the champagne on Robert Montague’s news that the company that wants to mine limestone in the ecologically sensitive...
THE TREATY of Chaguaramas (July 4, 1973) established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) based upon four foundations: economic integration, foreign policy coordination, human and social development and security. The latter pillar has arguably been...
ON JANUARY 4, Jamaica and the region lost James ‘Jimmy’ Moss-Solomon, a strong advocate for the engagement and strengthening of the regional private sector in the work of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and especially in the building of the...
AS the PM performed his version of the Ali-Shuffle so that he could score points while we focused on his feet, his best punch was to appoint Derrick McKoy as attorney-general. As a first-year law student, I was privileged to be taught by three top-...
AS JAMAICA rides its fourth COVID-19 wave, driven by the very transmissible Omicron variant, we continue to have one of the lowest vaccination rates in the region. COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of severe illness, hospitalisation and death from...
WE HAD hoped that by adding ‘urban renewal’ to the name of the seeming superministry to which Pearnel Charles Jr was assigned after the 2020 general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness was signalling his administration’s plan for a major...
Perhaps the title should be ‘Recovering our soul’. Because it really seems that we have lost that essence, the shared human spirit; the enduring sentiment which moves every person from brutish behaviour to compassion, or even basic respect, for...
