THIS NEWSPAPER never comported with the brash, hectoring style of Donald Tapia which, perhaps, is what you might expect of a non-career diplomat appointed by Donald Trump as his legate in a country like Jamaica. Imperiously, and in public, he...
Another mass deportation flight is planned from the UK to Jamaica, but the risk of COVID transmission have not been properly considered. The UK government is chartering a mass deportation flight to forcibly return scores of Jamaican nationals on...
The People’s National Party (PNP) has entered a new phase in its development as an organisation that embraces the highest ideals of a democratic movement. It was so from its founding. Its first leader, the Rt Excellent Norman Manley, was not merely...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:17 AM
When the Jamaican economy began to implode at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the initial expectation was that the contraction would be contained at under six per cent. Soon, government analysts were estimating that the decline would be...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:09 AM
I usually refrain from publicly discussing the cases which I am involved in but must on this occasion. In light of the misinformation and erroneous assumptions of damage to the environment, I set out the facts leading to the filing and grant of the...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:08 AM
G20 Summit Declaration: We remain determined to support all developing and least developed countries as they face the intertwined health, economic, and social effects of COVID-19, recognising the specific challenges in Africa and small-island...
When I left Jamaica 21 years ago, I distinctly remember that it was after an infamous gas strike complete with the regular protest tools like burnt tyres on our roads. I distinctly remember driving over the potholes on my street, which were, in...
Every Jamaican citizen, resident, and visitor has a personal responsibility to curtail the spread of COVID-19. This is of the utmost importance as the active cases of COVID-19 and related deaths are at an all-time high. In August alone, reports...
Over the next several weeks, he will inflict more damage on America’s moral authority not because he genuinely believes that he is being cheated out of an election victory, but out of fear. Hubris and ego apart, Donald Trump is afraid of the...
Christians in my inner circle of friends are some of the most loving and beautiful people I know. We do not share the same religious beliefs, but I respect and admire them greatly. I was a Christian in my youth, so I understand their belief that...
We often hear the phrase, “World without end…” Many erroneously interpret it to mean that we, human beings, will always have this planet as our habitat. However, even if we make the atmosphere toxic and cause the earth to scorch and all mammalian...
Regrettably, Minister of Security Horace Chang and the police phief wouldn’t agree with this title as they condition the citizenry for the resumption of states of emergency. They really want permanent legislation to permit preventive detention....
Although not without a tinge of irony, this newspaper notes, and welcomes, Jamaica’s acceptance of a £620,000 gift from Britain (J$117.4 million) to help combat the problems of recidivism and that of the island’s prisons. “The facts are that...
As we read of the desperate measures being taken by some parents towards ensuring their children are receiving an education during this pandemic. I cannot help thinking that not enough is being done by the Government to ensure that the children are...
Mark Golding has won a decisive contest as president of the People’s National Party (PNP). The Comrades have indicated whom they want to lead the party. The issue is settled, there needs to be no further proxy contests. He has won by a margin not...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING If me was Peter Knight, me would a go look one next work. Im a di headman fi di National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). Ascorden to fi dem website, NEPA suppose fi look bout “Conservation and Protection.” Dat mean, “...
Pardon my nervousness when I heard that they knocked down Nelson in Bridgetown, Barbados. Dating myself as a senior citizen, the Nelson who came to mind was radio Jock Admiral Nelson from the erstwhile station Liberty 98.1FM. I rather liked Nelson...
With little in the treasury to pay for a major rehabilitation of Jamaica’s devastated roads, it may be timely to revisit the idea, as E. G. Hunter believes should be the case, of a special fund for that purpose. “If you examine places like New...
A member of the travelling public is calling attention to the run-down state of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA). In a letter to this newspaper, Layla Buckley suggested that it is a stain on the honour of late National Hero Norman...
With extraordinary ferocity and speed, coronavirus swept the world and unleashed the greatest health crisis since the 1918 influenza pandemic (which claimed 50 million lives), creating unprecedented social, economical and political catastrophe and...
“Mrs Brown,” the doctor said to the young lady he had just examined, “I have some good news for you.” “I always welcome good news,” the lady said. “However, I need to point out that I am ‘Miss’ Brown and not ‘Mrs’ Brown.” “In that case,” the...
None of the definitions of the word ‘mitigation’ that I have seen suggests that negative impacts can be eliminated; all define mitigation as the “lessening in severity” or the “reduction in harmfulness” of negative impacts. The best mitigation can...
In Part I, ‘Parliamentary Oversight’ and ‘Executive accountability’ was interpreted through the lens of our Constitution which gives Parliament ‘collective responsibility’ for Cabinet’s direction and control of government (s.69(2)). To give...
Two years ago, during their claim that Prime Minister Andrew Holness was parachuting in an unseasoned supporter to lead the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), this newspaper advised the People’s National Party (PNP) that the real problem of the...
GIVEN HIS personal, and the Government’s, track record – not great – with constitutional cases, it is moot how much Prime Minister Andrew Holness would welcome a legal challenge of his decision to allow limestone mining in the ecologically fragile...
