Comedian Robin Williams, famous for his quips like, “Cricket is baseball on Valium,” and, “Never pick a fight with an ugly person; they’ve got nothing to lose,” has two that are related to today’s politics: “People say satire is dead. It’s not dead...
Flying into any US port of entry, non-US citizens (we are called aliens) must be photographed and fingerprinted; if we refuse, we will be denied entry into the USA. Citizens of the USA only show their passport on entering their country, as it is...
The latest discussion on the possibility of holding parliamentary and municipal elections on the same day has largely centred on the potential for saving a lot of money – J$750 million, at least by the estimates of the electoral office. That’s cash...
The grim reality of reduced or no income has already cemented itself in the lives of food service practitioners worldwide resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The abrupt halt of economic activities in several countries resulted in many restaurants...
UNDER THE rules, it’s too late to nominate someone for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, for which, according to the committee, there are 318 candidates – 211 individuals and 107 organisations. Nominations closed at the start of February. By now, the...
The first case of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China, was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019. This would become the first known case of the disease we now call COVID-19, declared a global pandemic by the...
F orce majeure clauses often appear in major commercial agreements, but are seldom invoked. Due to the 2019-2020 coronavirus outbreak, that is starting to change. A force majeure clause allows a party to a contract to escape liability for failure...
The world is changing, hence we must change with it and find ways to adapt to a ‘new normal’. With the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the global economy, many companies are now forced to rethink strategies and business models just to survive....
Eighteen months ago, in lamenting the limited use of flexi-work arrangements two years after a law that gives firms, and their employees, greater freedom to determine when, and how, workers go to their jobs, we suggested that the Government should...
As now customary, June was declared Caribbean American Heritage Month in the USA to celebrate the contribution of Caribbean migrants. The month is being commemorated, this year, within the COVID-19 pandemic and amid widespread protest against...
Earl Jarrett is no stranger to the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), of which he has been a member for six years. So news, last week, of his elevation on March 1, from among the four ‘independents’ who are chosen by the governor general,...
People, in recent days, have questioned why the Government of Jamaica is not moving to ensure that all visitors to Jamaica, upon the reopening of the borders on June 15, have a COVID-19-negative test result before even boarding their flight to...
NOT ONLY does Delroy Chuck belabour the obvious, but pretends as an officious bystander who has just discovered someone’s unfulfilled obligation, which he intends to set right. “A solution needs to be found, but at the moment one is not emerging,”...
HOW THE hell can someone spend 40 years in prison without a trial or conviction? Noel Chambers had been incarcerated at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre since February 1980 and died at the facility 40 years later at 81 years of age. He...
It was horrible to see, a cop killing a Black man, It was brutal because, he did all that anyone can, To beg and plead for help, to breathe the breath of life, While a symbol of privilege and power killed him, it cut me like a knife. It’s alleged...
The title is intended to startle. A crime is an intentional or reckless act or omission which harms another. That is what the practice of automatic promotion in our schools does. And according to the minister of education’s statement in Parliament...
It is not history which has repeated itself, it is the sociology which has maintained. I made a statement on radio last week that I will not visit any church building or service where the pastor is preaching hate. Too many people are calling for...
If police brutality bothers me in Minnesota or New York or Florida, it only stands to reason that it will bother me in Kingston or St James or St Catherine. No? Were it otherwise, I would stand rightfully accused of being exceedingly selective in...
The world is currently caught in the grip of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. With elections scheduled to be held in several jurisdictions during 2020, inclusive of Haiti, New Zealand, the United States of America, and Trinidad and Tobago,...
By the time this article is published, there would have been a protest outside of the US Embassy as well as a social media blackout campaign supporting the anti-racism, anti-police violence protests in America. I am no prophet, but I can bet that...
THERE’S AN urgent petition on change.org that every sensible Jamaican must sign: ‘REQUIRE MANDATORY COVID-19 TESTING FOR ALL TRAVELLERS ENTERING JAMAICA’. Here’s the link to the petition: http://chng.it/Jp4syVpLnf. The last time I checked, 18,461...
LAST WEEK, the Houses of Parliament approved, by affirmative resolution, an order to suspend Jamaica’s fiscal rules for the initial period of this fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, consistent with the provisions of the Financial Audit and...
IF, INDEED, the cliché about the definition of madness is true, then the folks in the law enforcement and criminal justice systems are crazier than the mentally ill people who keep getting lost in the prison system. They continuously do the same...
ALL OF Jamaica has failed Noel Chambers. He was in jail for 40 years but was never tried for his alleged crime. At the time of his death in January, his clothes were filthy, and he was emaciated and covered with vermin bites. His death at the Tower...
