The Government’s decision to aggressively scale up the inoculation of Jamaicans against COVID-19 this year is welcome news all round. However, it requires additional, and more specific information for a serious analysis of the credibility of the...
“How you mean, man, everybody affi know seh a me dat!” This was Jango’s emphatic reply to my query as to why he felt it was an absolute necessity for him to modify the exhaust system of his new yeng-yeng to make the loudest sound possible. He had...
It sounds crazy until you hear the science. Two of the greatest tools in the fight against COVID-19 are open windows and a 40-year-old drug, mostly used in Jamaica on pets, and to combat lice and intestinal parasites in humans. The reason why these...
The education sector worldwide is in a tailspin. Given the emotional, social and economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last eleven months, this is of little surprise to anyone. The virus and its current variants and those to come are...
Fifty-six years to the date today, a set of black men, while African-American activist Malcolm X was speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York, pounced on him and shot him multiple times. Three members of the Nation of Islam, an...
Last week’s discovery of a security lapse on Jamaica’s JamCOVID that left the private information of tens of thousands of people open to scrutiny on the public Internet demands far more than dire warnings of the consequences people could face,...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Inna 2013, University of Washington put out one news story wid dis ya headline, ‘While in womb, babies begin learning language from their mothers’. A Dr Molly McElroy write it. She a one scientist weh study nerves. Bot she...
There is a kind of arrogance that has crept into the leadership of the police force which we think is aided and abetted by a Government that does not demand accountability from our public servants. We believe that it is this lack of effective...
People in the Caribbean who refuse to take vaccinations to counter the coronavirus will cause the COVID-19 pandemic to remain longer in the region, endangering lives, livelihoods, and entire economies. Whatever genuine fears may exist, these...
Even though coffee is reputedly the best aphrodisiac for older men, now it is cricket mainly, with some minor assistance from the coffee, that keeps me awake at nights. Having reached three-score-and-fifteen, I find the T20s and One Day...
The first step in solving any problem is admitting that there is a problem. This is step one in most programmes to beat alcohol/drug addiction, and it is no less true for those persons with problems with obesity, and money management. It is when...
Last year, millions of protesters poured into the streets of every city and town across the United States in the largest public demonstrations in the history of the country. They marched in the wake of the brutal police murders of George Floyd,...
Whatever complaints people may make against Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, no one could credibly claim that she is not usually ready for debates, or even a bit of scrap, thereby opening her actions to public scrutiny. She...
DR GENE Leon does not go by his given name, Hyginus. Yet, he has a scholarly mien worthy of the Roman author of Caesar Augustus’ time, after whom he was obviously named. When Dr Leon takes over on May 1 as president of the Caribbean Development...
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the world’s largest anti-fraud organisation and premier provider of anti-fraud training education and certification, organisations lose about five per cent of revenue from fraud annually....
Historically, pandemics have changed the course of history. COVID-19 has managed to inspire creativity and innovation worldwide since its outbreak among those who were able to spot opportunities in spite of the negative effects of the pandemic. In...
With the Biden administration having cleared the logjam to her accession as the director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has little time to bask in the other firsts she has achieved with this job. She will be the...
The General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday confirmed the first term appointment of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the new Director General, starting on March 1. Her appointment has been widely welcomed as the first...
The recent posting by an American JetBlue employee, Miss Kalina Collier, suggesting that she was kidnapped and being held against her will in Jamaica serves to bring into focus once again the irresponsible and reckless behaviour of some users on...
Recently, I was invited to take part in a discussion on abortion, with the theme being ‘Abortion: Church vs Science’. I consented, and after confirming the date and time of the virtual event, asked who else would be involved in the conversation,...
Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, who has oversight of the island’s prisons and remand centres, has been doing a good job deflecting criticism that the Government might have received for a series of...
All across Jamaica, parents, teachers and school administrators are grappling with difficult decisions about the reopening of schools – especially now as we face a surge in COVID-19 cases. The fear and anxiety are understandable, as we all manage...
Defending the rights of women and that of her unborn children are not matters on a collision course, although Alando Terrelonge, minister of state in the Ministry of Culture, Gender Entertainment, and Sport, seems to think so. Terrelonge, in a...
Kamina Johnson Smith’s announcement of the strong progress made in the six weeks since Jamaica began negotiating with the United States for a revision of the Shiprider Agreement speaks, it would suggest, to the quality of Jamaica’s diplomacy and...
“America mash up, you know!” Squeegy insists. He is the self-proclaimed president of all car washers downtown and claims to know about the US because he has been deported twice and “leave nuff yout’ in foreign”. From his privileged place of...
