There are no reliable, safe, and effective antiviral drugs or COVID-19 vaccines that will be made available in the next two years. Therefore, it is important to build up one’s immune system using vitamin C and other antioxidants, even as we develop...
There is a story about a Trinidad politician who people accused of being a barefaced liar. So, he grew a beard. Then there was the one about a politician, a liar and a crooked man entering a bar. He sat down and ordered a drink. There was another...
IN THE middle of this COVID-19 pandemic, much has been made of the ‘right’ of Jamaicans stranded overseas or on the high seas to return to their country. The impression is being given that this right means that the Jamaican Government has the...
THERE WILL be relief all round that the more than 1,000 Jamaican crew members aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Adventure of the Seas vessel are finally being landed at home. But we, like others, are surprised at the glitches and delays, even...
The dramatic global spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has created severe human, social and economic disruption across all continents and devastation of some healthcare systems. This is related not only to the rapid spread and highly...
Whenever there is a hot issue, pundits come out of the woodwork, so I am taking licence to join the ranks. However, I am coming from the position of a business owner and a manager who is at the centre of the COVID-19 pandemic, experiencing the...
The Government is being urged to implement an aggressive public education campaign to inform persons of their rights under the Data Protection Act. The call was made by Member of Parliament for South Eastern St Andrew Julian Robinson in his...
The First World War sped up the emancipation of women; the Second World War led to the creation of welfare states in all the industrialised countries. What great change will the coronavirus crisis bring us? This crisis has not yet killed tens of...
Last week, I joined two webinars dealing with the Caribbean’s recovery from COVID-19. In both, strengthening regional integration, including food security, were considered necessary for the region’s recovery and future development. In this health...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is right. Jamaicans will have to learn to live with COVID-19. For, despite the encouraging signs from the world’s scientists, there is no vaccine around the corner for the novel coronavirus. Not too many people,...
AS A teacher and principal of many years who has seen changes and improvements in our education system over the years, I am perturbed today. COVID-19 has really laid so many things bare. It is time for another leap in the right direction. With...
THE NEWS of Roberto Azevedo’s decision to leave the World Trade Organization (WTO) in August, a year before the end of his second four-year term, has been overshadowed by the daily accounting of the more obvious fallouts from the COVID-19 pandemic...
I HAVE been looking after her since she was a teenager. Now, she is not only an adult, but a married woman preparing to become a mother. As I greeted her in the waiting area of my office, she turned to the young man to her right and gleefully said...
Despite his exhortation to firms to go ahead with their pre-COVID-19 investment plans, Prime Minister Andrew Holness knows that there will be no rush to move projects from the drawing board or to put new cash behind old ventures. Indeed, even after...
COVID-19 COULD have been stopped in its tracks if every country agreed to simultaneously lock down for one month. It would have demanded great sacrifices, taken extremely detailed planning and meticulous logistical arrangements, but it could have...
THIS IS a humble appeal to the Ministry of Education to reconsider the decision not to offer enough financial support to privately operated schools for them to survive. This approach to the Government is couched respectfully because anyone familiar...
Butch Stewart is a Jamaican icon, a living legend. He’s done very many good things for the country and I don’t take the view – not for a minute – that his pursuit of his personal fortune is at all a problem for the rest of us. Quite the opposite....
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING A Sigmund Freud im, di big-time psychiatrist from Austria, weh did seh, “Die Anatomie ist das Schicksal.” Yu body an, first to begin wid, yu gender a go control how yu life turn out. Freud did seh dat bout one hundred year...
This nonsense about social distancing misses the most basic thing about human beings. It is a contradiction. If it is social, it cannot involve distancing. What we are trying to practise is physical spacing because if we attempt to distance...
In death, even mediocre men are often hailed as heroes with sharp intellect and great achievements who made a difference to their communities and to the world. Oliver Clarke, the former chairman of the RJRGLEANER Group, who died yesterday, age 75...
The need to respond to a recent perspective from former Jamaican Prime Minister, the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson, I believe, sadly reflects, to a great extent, the failure of much of the country’s past leadership on critically important issues...
We understand the anxiety to reboot the tourism sector in the face of a plunging currency, unemployment of nearly 500,000, and the economic storm created by the coronavirus. Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that he is contemplating how...
My job requires me to work in a laminar flow which has a HEPA filter that filters out 99.97% of particles 0.3 microns in size; this includes bacteria, fungi and viruses. Even one microbe on a Petri dish can grow and over-ride an explant in a few...
My cousin Harry was mischievous, and one day when I was helping my aunt shell pigeon peas, he pretended to eat one of the worms and dared me to try it. I did, and everyone laughed at my gullibility and continued to do so for many years afterwards,...
This is one of those occasions when Everald Warmington got it right. Or, mostly so. When politicians are sent to Parliament it is after they, of their own accord, have applied for the job of representing their constituents, for which they undergo...
