I read the commentary from my fellow columnist on Thursday, October 17, and was going to say that I stand with Rev Dick. However, I have bigger things to deal with this week, given the significance of the day tomorrow. Therefore, as hard as it is...
Rwanda, that African country that was rocked by genocide in 1994, has rolled out its first ‘made in Rwanda’ Volkswagen motor car, showing the world how a wounded country can recover in 25 years. German car maker Volkswagen, the largest in Europe,...
I don’t think people realise how ridiculously restrictive many workplaces can and tend to be or how they stifle productivity while herding workers like cattle. It saddens me that for so many, signing a contract for desperately needed work is like...
Social media has become so intertwined with our daily lives. It is difficult, if not impossible, to find an individual who does not use any form of social media, whether Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Youtube or WhatsApp....
Except for calypso, I am very much like the person film producer Billy Wilder described as having Van Gogh’s ear for music. I might be related to the piano player who was so bad that he was told, “Get off the piano. You’re hurting its feelings.”...
It may be cynicism about the ability of the Government and political Opposition to effectively cooperate on anything why so little attention was apparently paid to Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ disclosure of talks between himself and Peter...
The recent arrests of Ruel Reid’s family and Caribbean Maritime University’s President, Fritz Pinnock, as well as the ongoing impeachment inquiry of United States President Donald Trump have made popular a now-entrenched legal maxim with a most...
The Ministry of Transport and Mining uses this medium to respond to an article published in The Gleaner, October 16, 2019, by Andre Wright, associate editor titled ‘Will public transport survive Bobby’s bomb?’ The ministry thanks Mr Wright for his...
Today I would like to raise my voice in support of a reader. Dr John Lennon, a research chemist, born in England of Jamaican parents, now living in Montego Bay, has sent me copies of correspondence he has sent to several persons, ministries and...
The October 8th publication of the 2019 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) by the World Economic Forum should be required reading for policymakers and business leaders. The report highlights some of the most profound development challenges facing...
When Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck criticised the break-of-day, early-morning arrest of ex-education minister Ruel Reid, and others caught up in damning allegations of corruption, Chuck came across as one member of the privileged class standing...
It came to pass last week that the security forces swooped down on the homes of former education minister Ruel Reid, Professor Fritz Pinnock of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), and St Ann Councillor Kim Brown-Lawrence in the wee morning...
Last week, the utterances of the minister of justice and director of public prosecutions (DPP) in the wake of the arrest of former minister of education and principal of Jamaica College, his wife and daughter, plus president of the Caribbean...
When Robert Montague rose in Gordon House on May 30, 2018, to announce the most explosive public-order disaster Jamaicans have ever heard, he was metaphorically strapped with C-4, clutching a grenade in one hand and a detonator in the other. Didn’t...
Not for the first time, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised to divest the Government’s 19 per cent stake in the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS), the light and power provider, via a listing on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE). “...
The average farmer in the Caribbean working with two acres of fertile land currently earns only between US$5,000 and US$10,000 a year selling produce in the local market. It is barely enough to get by. But what if there is a crop that is suitable...
In the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU) post-Cotonou negotiations, it appears that adhering to the timetable for the completion of the negotiations could be very challenging, even without a delay in...
When Richard Byles, 14 months ago, raised the issue of the quality of the jobs in the Jamaican economy and the pay that goes with them, he was furiously rounded on by the big cheeses of the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector who felt...
There is much current agitation over the economy’s failure to grow. But, except recently by Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles, not much identification of its source, the need for long-term planning and implementation. Where there has...
Minute by minute, my annoyance grows. Since 1738 until now, we haven’t decide on the sovereignty of Accompong, and the Government of Jamaica (and its agents) have been eerily silent. They’re looking like a bunch of yellow-bellied cowards, afraid of...
On October 4, Prime Minister Holness gave his perspective of why he thought Government’s attempt to extend the already unconscionable time Cabinet minutes are kept secret became a bipartisan effort. “I briefed the opposition leader that we would...
Recently, a patient visited my office complaining of menstrual issues. After taking her medical history and documenting her complaints, I directed her to the examination couch, instructed her to remove all articles of clothing, lie down, and cover...
The Government, we hope, is not about to recommit its mistakes when it rushed through the law for a National Identification System (NIDS) which the court, earlier this year, held to be unconstitutional. The upshot: The Holness administration was...
Claiming and condition races can prove competitive for bettors in North America because the thoroughbred racetracks, between Canada and the United States, are graded in terms of quality of purses and outnumber Jamaica’s 100-1. Connections of horses...
Every Jamaican, and especially every parent, should express strong support for the principled stand being taken by oversight Minister Karl Samuda in enjoining that all persons being appointed to the sensitive and crucial post of school principal...
