Will the world be able to feed 28 per cent more people by 2050? How do we ensure that we can all eat better and healthier without mortgaging the Earth’s ability to produce food for our grandchildren? These are very challenging questions especially...
The country has reached a critical juncture in its democratic experience, which many have failed to understand. In my view, the juncture at which we have reached has the potential to erode the very foundations of our system of democracy. This...
I was a wee lad when I first met Michael Sharpe in the late 1980s. It was a Sunday afternoon when he drove to visit with friends living at Lot 66, Church Pen Housing Scheme, Old Harbour. It was during the carnival season and I wriggled through the...
THE SPEAKER of the House, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) owe Jamaicans something more, and better, than their rude and cynical contortions in the George Wright affair. While what has been done may be nominally on...
With time on my hand, I may just produce a compendium of COVID-19 language. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic where there is overwhelming confusion, anxiety and fear, we look forward to hearing, in more simple terms, words that we can...
In my article of December 9, 2020, I addressed the conclusion of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the European Union (EU) post-Cotonou negotiations when the negotiators resolved the remaining outstanding issues...
In what they cast as a “groundbreaking” development, DADA Holdings, the ultimate parent of Jamaica’s Noranda Bauxite, last week announced a joint venture with a Canadian green technology outfit, Enervoxa, to extract rare earth elements (REEs)...
On April 8, 2021, the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, DC and Ambassador Audrey Marks hosted their second national, virtual town hall meeting, ‘Jamaica Connect’, for members of the diaspora. A brilliant initiative allowing Jamaicans in the...
I saw the video. The man grabbed, pulled, shoved, and hit the woman multiple – at least 15 – times. He hit her with his bare hands, with an object I was unable to identify, and several times with a stool. He beat the woman with a stool. The video...
Given his oft-declared commitment to rectitude in his party and Government, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has been strangely quiet over the George Wright affair. He has acted by proxy, whether in the decision to remove the Jamaica Labour Party’s (...
The brutal slaying of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson last month is not only unforgettable, but also unjustifiable. Mother, if you can hear me through your grief and anguish, I feel your pain. I wish to express sincere condolences to you and your...
It is a sad and serious indictment on our society that so many youngsters, and people in general, depend on one of our most basic/primal functions for survival and for self-esteem. This is especially true for some women within our inner cities. The...
“Dem tek we for fool-fool people.” That was the response of the big woman on the corner downtown to the news that the police had closed their file on the horrible beat-up of a woman by a ‘big man’ in the west. “So now, even if everybody see you a...
No one would claim that last week’s ruling by House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert in the George Wright affair was based on anything other than conviction and principle, rather than a tactical move to help her party and the Government manoeuvre...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Long-long time before Babylon system start talk-talk bout ‘medical marijuana,’ Rasta done know seh di holy herb a fi di healing a di nation. Rasta study Bible an dem overstand ital livity. Inna Genesis 1:29, Jah seh, “...
As a minister of tourism for one of the world’s most tourism-dependent countries in the world’s most tourism-dependent region, I am in a safe position to say that the current pandemic has presented the greatest challenge to the sector that I have...
In an article I wrote that was published in The Gleaner on February 5, 2020, I stated that “the danger with the coronavirus is the panic it will cause if it gets here. This is made infinitely worse by the rapid dissemination of fake news via...
When, after the last election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness decoupled the agriculture portfolio from those for investment and trade and named Floyd Green to head the former, we hoped for energetic and transformative leadership from the young...
A little prick can be a nuisance, and no one should be forced to take it against his or her own will. As regards the COVID-19 vaccine, if you don’t feel the need or desire to feel the needle, then that is your choice. Perhaps there is some secret...
From church services to court appearances, cloud-based platforms like Zoom have been facilitating video-conferencing, group chats and webinars, as more people adapt to the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Against the background of...
As undesirable as it may be, governments of Caribbean countries that are not in International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes are being pushed in that direction. Through no bad policy decisions that they have made, governments are confronted with...
In Barbados, it is known as ‘fish soup’. In Jamaica, it is ‘fish tea’ and Belizeans call it ‘Bundiga’. But in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Antigua, the most popular seafood dish is ‘fish broth’. Because the road linking the fishing grounds of...
Jamaica is a violent society. Parents inflict violence on their children in the name of discipline, and order is enforced in political garrisons by the barrel – of a gun, or the fear of being stuffed in a barrel. Relations between the genders...
One day in early 1998, while I was working as the general manager of Le Meridien Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,the British high commissioner in Jamaica gave me the heads up about a forthcoming visit by Prince Philip. Having read and heard about Prince...
Howard Gregory, the Anglican archbishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Island and head of the Church in the Province of the West Indies, is a thoughtful and progressive theologian, whose campaigns for social justice often include an insistence on...
