The truism that justice delayed is justice denied is applicable to both criminal and civil matters. This principle is expressly codified in the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) of 2002, where Rule 1.2(2) (d) states one of the court’s overriding...
“And if yuh nah seh 6ix, no gyal don’t want yuh Bobby inna di Axio, me inna di Prado Pssst, Brownin’ yuh nuh hear mi deh call yuh” Prime Minister Andrew Holness has become the patron saint of the Brogad posse. Jamaica has reneged on the...
While reflecting on items which could be on the agenda for the upcoming 49th Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I came across some media news postings which led me to think about...
We appreciate that the American Government is under no obligation, legal or moral, to publicly announce or say why it revokes visas for entry to the United States from Jamaican citizens, regardless of social rank or status. After all, visas, as...
I would like to clarify several matters stated in the column ‘Please, Mr Holness, do not sell JPS shares’, written by Mark Ricketts, which was published in this week’s Sunday Gleaner, as it relates to the Jamaica Public Service (JPS). I will...
Today, video recordings have emerged as a primary source of information and intelligence gathering. Hundreds, if not thousands, of videos are created and circulated daily on social media. This era can be described as the golden age of online videos...
As last week’s column was published, I received an irate call from Gene Autry: “You idiot! Don’t you remember Digger was LEFT-handed?” Oops. We also remembered acting as Digger’s wingmen trying to set him up with a young lady. As he was introduced...
When I was a teenager, a friend and I were walking along a main street after it had rained. We noticed a car driving at a high rate of speed and, in spite of the flooded road surface, the driver never slowed as he approached us. We climbed on the...
It is time for a discussion to promote a period of compulsory military service for all unattached and idle youth in Jamaica. It ought not to have come to this, but it has. Too many families are broken, community ties are weak and more...
A few months ago, I was approached by members of a women’s organisation to take part in a boys’ forum. My role was to interact with boys, specifically a group of grade six boys from a primary school, and engage them on issues that concern them. On...
We didn’t need the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) to tell us that there is an economic and psychological cost to the discrimination that the Jamaican society practises against a not-insignificant portion of its members who happen to be...
HORSE RACING promoting company Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) racked up losses of $607.7 million in 22 months – $355.6 million over 10 months in 2017 and $252.1 million for all of 2018. The trend of betting for 2019 has...
Dr Esther Figueroa has made an award-winning documentary film that must be seen by every Jamaican who wants to save our island from the pestilence of bauxite mining. And, especially if you couldn’t care less, you should watch the film. Unless...
The wonderful benefit of having a sociological imagination is that persons trained in the discipline think systemically. Some people do it naturally but others have to have it thrust upon them. Everything in a social system or society is connected...
We take it that the People’s National Party (PNP) is beyond equivocation, and that Victor Wright’s pledge that a future PNP government will leave Bernard Lodge for farming is solemn and bankable. If that is, indeed, the case, what Mr Wright must...
Wednesday, October 23 marked a good day in public health in Jamaica, as we broke ground for the island’s first hospital for children and adolescents in western Jamaica, home to close to 500,000 or almost 20 per cent of our population. The hospital...
The debate about the American gun has gone on for many years, and while Jamaica continues to tally gunshot victims, there is almost a sense of despair among those who govern that it’s a battle they cannot win. Thousands of people are being...
Few would trade places with 40-year-old Manieka Vervoort, Belgian Paralympian extraordinaire, gold and silver medallist in wheelchair racing. Living with unbroken, excruciating pains from an incurable degenerative spinal disease from childhood, she...
About 11 years ago, when I worked as the corporate secretary of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), a group of us were in Barbados looking at the cricket facilities at Cave Hill. I am not sure how it started but the president of one of the...
The PNPYO notes with grave concern that over a nine-year period, Jamaica has failed to move from its Tier 2 ranking, as we have failed to meet the minimum standards needed to eliminate human trafficking. We are demanding that the government acts...
In the normal course of events, this newspaper might have warmly welcomed the appointment of Justice Lloyd Hibbert to the Integrity Commission, notwithstanding the quietude of the act, almost as if his selection was of no moment. Mr Hibbert, for...
There was a story in the news recently about a baby that was found in a pit latrine in the rural, rustic community of Cox Piece in St. Mary. The basic facts suggest that a woman ended the relationship with her partner months before. Unexpectedly,...
Following the extensive discussions in the public domain in respect of fines being imposed on motorists who have been issued with hundreds of traffic tickets, the judiciary of Jamaica would like to clarify some of the misinformation which have been...
The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) has given new life to the debate on whether buggery – and therefore homosexuality – should be normalised in Jamaica. In a study called Paying for Prejudice, CAPRI conjects that making buggery legal in...
Addressing a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) constituency conference in St Catherine last Sunday, Juliet Holness, member of parliament and wife of the prime minister, stated, to huge acclaim and thunderous applause, that in addition to her husband’s...
