Today it seems almost impossible to live without your TV, mobile phone, and computer. Yesterday we could not live without the car, landline phone, radio, the secretary/assistant. The day before that we were obsessed with getting to work, school,...
Beyond its ruinous impact on the island’s economy and the damage it has done to people’s physical and psychological health, the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving three other significant marks on Jamaica. It laid bare the country’s digital divide,...
It is better, the saying goes, to be safe than sorry. Which is why the Government’s reimposition of a temporary ban on airline flights from the United Kingdom was the right thing to do. It is logical, also, to maintain sensible COVID-19 protocols...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2020 | 12:16 AM
Dyslexia is a language processing disorder that affects both spoken and written forms of the language; one of its symptoms involves reading words backwards. Last week, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) publicised its second phase of...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2020 | 12:09 AM
Last week, I listened to an interview with the British High Commissioner to Jamaica H.E. Asif Ahmad. He was talking about the potential for increasing trade between Jamaica and the United Kingdom (UK) in goods and services. Of course, on January 1...
We are heartened that the Honourable Prime Minister (PM) is disappointed with the pace of downtown Kingston’s redevelopment, as reported in a Gleaner article of December 11, titled ‘Downtown dilemma’. No one with a desire to see Jamaica do well...
My colleague, Dr Roger Hunter, a neurosurgeon, has been making the rounds in the electronic and print media sharing his perspectives and offering advice regarding COVID-19. First, the good news. Dr Hunter has reminded us that maladies such as...
The statistics seem impressive. Over the past three years, this newspaper reported on Sunday, nearly 2,600 people have been arrested in Jamaica for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Of this number, 2,481 were convicted by the courts. That is 96...
I am sorry for Minister Christopher Tufton. The repairs to the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) have failed to be delivered on time and on budget, and he is taking a serious ‘cussing’ for trying to blame this on incompetent contractors. To a person...
One of my esteemed colleagues has publicly and repeatedly professed to having so much knowledge of virology and such a prodigious understanding of this new and deadly (SARS-CoV-2) plague that he has decided that our epidemiologists, infectious...
As we indicated more than a month ago, this newspaper welcomes the debate that has been triggered by the Government’s move to fulfil its manifesto promise of separating the municipality of Portmore from the parish of St Catherine and establish it...
Last week, I wrote about the importance of entrenching macroeconomic stability by complementing its achievement with the building of institutions that can preserve and maintain this stability. I elaborated on the historic enactment of the Bank of...
Usually significant disruptions in the politico-economic order have fancy names such as the Tulip, Rose and the Velvet Revolutions. These movements create great upheavals that lead to changes in laws, governments and socio-economic conditions in a...
Five days from now, we will be celebrating Christmas and from all signs, it is likely to be the most muted one in my adult life. COVID-19 could easily be called Neeko, having ‘mashed up our lives’. However, there is something very simple about this...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Last Christmas, mi cook whole day. Same like every odder Christmas. Rice an peas, bake snapper, sweet potato salad, mix salad. An a nuh me one a cook. Mi cousin Robert a one big chef. Im cook mix vegetable – carrot an green...
Jamaica, insofar as this newspaper is aware, remains on a European Union (EU) blacklist – on which it was placed in May – of countries whose regimes against money laundering, tax evasion, and terrorist financing the EU deemed not to have been...
For the second time this year, the Supreme Court of Jamaica has ruled in favour of Corporate Area communities where developers have trampled on the rights of citizens. We refer to judgments in the Birdsucker Drive development and, before that, the...
When Polonius asked Hamlet what he was reading and Hamlet replied, “Words, words, words”, he wasn’t joking at all. There are some words that do double, triple and multiple duties and, like body-builders full of supplements, they have homonyms (...
It is heartbreaking and simply unimaginable, the suffering a Jamaican family endured when a loved one was accidentally burnt at home recently and subsequently died for want of life-saving care in a burn unit far away, in Miami. The ordeal was...
Last Thursday – International Human Rights Day 2020, and a day after International Anti-Corruption Day – the government of United States President Donald Trump announced travel and other sanctions against six present and past Jamaican policemen who...
Jamaica is part of this planet existing in an era of unprecedented environmental concerns. Climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet and life as we know it. In our perennial campaigns to expose...
It has long been a matter of puzzlement for this newspaper that despite their perennial complaints of barriers to their goods and services in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and dissatisfaction with the rulings of CARICOM’s bodies, Jamaica’s...
With the recent retirement of Justice C. Dennis Morrison OJ, CD, QC, as president of the Court of Appeal, another distinguished judge, Justice Patrick Brooks, whose judgments are reliably hailed as “impressive” and “full and careful”, has been...
The massive shock of the coronavirus pandemic and the sweeping shutdowns meant to limit the spread have plunged the global economy into recession. On June 8, the World Bank forecasts the global economy to shrink by 5.2 per cent in 2020. This would...
DR CHRISTOPHER Tufton, the health minister, is causing a lot of people to reconsider their perception of him as a quick study. It has taken him all of three years, the expenditure of more than a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money, plus the help of...
