What a crescendo ending to 2021! Citizens continued to take action. The courts have ruled in favour of citizens. Government agencies responsible for construction development projects have begun to acquiesce. Huge kudos to all media for carrying...
Maybe over the holidays Prime Minister Andrew Holness will have a quiet word with Kamina Johnson Smith, his foreign minister and the leader of government business in the Senate, and that after the recess she will end her walkouts of the Upper House...
We have had a Christmas under the impact of the dreaded COVID-19 virus in Jamaica. This was a unique experience as we were requested to observe health protocols, the sum of which represented restrictions on free movement and subsequently, there was...
In true “falla-fashion” style, some are asking – if Barbados can name Rihanna as their 11th national hero, why can’t Jamaica add Bob Marley, or Jimmy Cliff, or Usain Bolt to our much shorter list of national heroes? Is heroism the same thing as...
MY ONE-MAN crusade against social media is well known. From the killer dating app of the early 2000s, to the app killer of careers, reputations and relationships today, the social media debate has begun to draw parallels with the prohibition...
EARLIER THIS year, the European Union (EU) and Brazil inaugurated a new fibre-optic cable to carry terabytes of data faster and more securely between our two continents. This helps scientists in Europe and Latin America to work together on issues...
It is not clear if Edward Gabbidon jumped or was pushed. Only a week ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness was insisting that he had full confidence in Mr Gabbidon’s chairmanship of the Government’s cash-rich vocational training agency, HEART/NSTA...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2021 | 12:07 AM
Unlike the chairmen of Jamaica’s other local government authorities, who are chosen by their colleagues, Leon Thomas, the mayor of Portmore, was directly elected to the post. The voters, if they believe that Mr Thomas is guilty of “gross misconduct...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2021 | 12:07 AM
The Right Excellent Marcus Garvey, as early as 1932, made the first definitive call for self-governance and shared his vision for what he called “the new Jamaica”. Garvey explained his dream for Jamaica: “We want the spirit of national...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2021 | 12:06 AM
The Caribbean, as we know it, results from the expansion of international trade. Christopher Columbus was seeking a new western route to trade with India and China when he encountered these islands, opening the door to further exploration and...
These twelfth annual Domino Awards (International Version) are inspired by the Khooky Khast of Kharacters from Gene Autry’s domino table starring that happy-go-lucky idler, the Dunce. International Dunce Award: Far right conservative conspiracy...
Whether planned as an insurrection, a terrorist attack on the US Congress, a conspiracy to engage in a coup to overturn a legitimate election, the unprecedented January 6, 2021 events were an assault on democracy. Not just on American democracy but...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness was probably on to something about not holding municipal elections at this time. Having them would not make sense, he told his party conference at the end of last month, given Jamaica’s need to focus on managing the...
Everyone knows that Jeshua ben Joseph, “... Jesus, the personification of the Christ energy on earth” as one writer so aptly and eloquently put it, was not born during this time of the year. But the Christmas season always causes me to reflect on...
Earlier this year, Mexico-based Cemex, the world’s fifth-largest cement company, and the biggest in North America, announced that it would slash its carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions by 40 per cent by 2030, on its way to reaching net zero greenhouse...
You should have seen him. Eyes gleaming with elation as he screeched past the line of traffic in crowded Papine Square on his motorcycle, the front wheel in the air. “B**bo***! Him skillful eeh”. Then there was an older guy with the gold teeth in...
Imagine paying more than six times the annual average salary for a tulip bulb. Houses, carriages and businesses were less expensive than these exotic items in the Dutch tulip market bubble of the 17th century. Some estimates are that in today’s...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Inna mi column last week, mi seh wi shoulda follow back a Barbados an mek Louise Bennett an Bob Marley national hero same like Rihanna. Look wa ‘Marcus Garvey II’ post pon Gleaner website: “I am almost sure that Dr Cooper...
It is just around the corner. Trust me, I bumped into it and have the bruises to show. No snow, no sleigh, no reindeer, and certainly not the potbellied senior citizen clad in the thick, red suit. Deep sympathies for those costumed role players,...
In reaffirming his Government’s pledge to provide 70,000 new homes during its current five-year term, Prime Minister Andrew Holness promised last week to tell Parliament early in the new year where and how 40,000 of those units will be built and...
There seems to be a growing tendency to believe that persons go to university to get a degree as their route to a well-paying job. This simplistic notion for acquiring an education is quite troubling. For what it does, if it becomes pervasive, is...
Tribal politics has created havoc by causing bloodshed and misery in a number of inner-city communities. The painful stories about broken lives and shattered dreams, common to many such communities, continue to be a blot on the face of the nation....
Our world exists today in troubled circumstances, governed by outmoded charters and laws that are no longer fit for purpose and do not respond to human needs. When most of these charters were signed 70 or more years ago, more than 70 countries...
The first Noel that I ever did see was a neighbour from Grenada. So, too, was the second Noel who went to secondary school with me and travelled on the same bus, which was always so crowded by the time it reached our village that we couldn’t fight...
Next to the carols signalling Jamaica’s entry into the Christmas season, perhaps the sweetest melody this newspaper has heard in recent times was Desmond McKenzie’s croaky voice talking on Tuesday about a big cleaning and garbage collection project...
