Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 12:00 AM
While reading the front-page story in t he Gleaner last week regarding the gaffe of a giraffe crossing on Constant Spring Road, I did not know whether to laugh or cry. Imagine a criss-criss pedestrian crossing that is supposed to span a four-lane...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 12:00 AM
Since the death of former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, there has been evaluation of his life and work. In the 1980s, Mugabe implemented universal healthcare and education, and the economy was strong. He encouraged the whites to be...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 12:00 AM
The recent announcement by the Ministry of Health and Wellness that the long-planned 220-bed children’s hospital to be built in western Jamaica will finally break ground is welcome news. The hospital, first announced by former Prime Minister Portia...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
Few will be surprised at the frenzy with which politicians, on either side of the fence, have been having audience with, if not paying deference to, people in Jamaica’s entertainment industry, especially on the dancehall side of the business. This...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
I write in response to the unfortunate opinion piece by Jaristotle’s Jottings characterising The University of the West Indies as an “administrative ghetto”. We feel compelled to correct this most unfortunate characterisation of The UWI-Mona’s...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 12:00 AM
On September 16, Noranda Bauxite Jamaica Partners, a corporation owned by the Government of Jamaica and New Day, a foreign company, bused in more than 100 employees to ‘protest’ in front of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET). Their protest was...
We hope that the plan to dissolve the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) isn’t a case of the Holness administration learning the wrong lessons from the Petrojam scandal and opting for a solution that might make it more difficult to identify,...
Two years ago, I left Jamaica en route to Europe, a course of action that only became possible after earning an international scholarship to pursue a Master of Arts in journalism, media and globalisation. After a year of living in both Denmark and...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) ought to be ranked as one of the most inefficient, uncaring, and insensitive companies in Jamaica. On Monday, September 9, we discovered, at about 6 a.m., that the Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors...
The domino game became contentious. The Beast was becoming frustrated and, in a rare move for such a mild-mannered person, he raised his voice at the Dunce. “What’s the matter with you? ” The Beast asked in as testy a voice as he could summon. “...
Audley Shaw seems to have rediscovered his voice and with it, a remembrance that agriculture is part of his ministerial portfolio. Many people will be happy – if it lasts and he sustains his advocacy. Last week, Mr Shaw, who is also the minister of...
Last Tuesday morning, shortly after waking up, I checked my phone to see what was trending on Google. At the top of the list was the name ‘Jarrid Wilson’. I was not familiar with this person and was curious about him and why his name was at number...
The letter in your September 7, 2019 edition, under the headline ‘PEP textbook errors embarrassing’, had a number of misleading and erroneous information based, unfortunately, on wrong assumptions, which may confuse your readers. Please see the...
At the resumption after the summer break, the members of the House of Representatives stood for the customary minute of silence in memory of three deceased former members, Dr Kenneth Baugh, Lawrence Broderick and Glenville Shaw. After about 30...
I want to make it clear that I am not a political creature. I am not aligned to any political party. I have very good friends on both sides of the fence. However, there are things about the People’s National Party (PNP) that I find very strange...
The impression that most people have of a court is that of a deadly serious place, but my six-year experience of working in the Resident Magistrate’s Court does not exactly match that impression. I have witnessed times when even the RM and lawyers...
Representation is important. It is critical that all members of society see themselves in media and in public spaces, be that on billboards, buses or street art. It is in seeing ourselves that we see ourselves. For many, we in Jamaica for decades...
Hopefully, the group Montego Bay Pride is a juristic person, in which event it should seek an injunction against the St James Municipal Corporation and its chairman, Homer Davis, to prevent them their constitutionally guaranteed right to free...
A diabetic truck driver en route through a St Catherine community urgently needs food to elevate his precipitously falling blood-sugar level, or else he could possibly die. The truck driver is unable to access food because it is a little after10 at...
We are due some serious conversations in Jamaica, what with these traffic pile-ups, the ever-high road deaths, and the ongoing struggle to have some order on the roads. Road mortality has once again coursed past 300, so it is plain that we still...
Pon Thursday, September 5, four day after her birthday, Queen Mother Mariamne Samad draw her last breath. She was 97, not 99, as some people a seh. She did born eena 1922, eena di belly a di Marcus Garvey movement. Fi her...
Like many Jamaicans, I watched keenly to see the outcome of the People’s National Party (PNP) internal election on Saturday, September 7, 2019. Admittedly not a huge Peter Bunting fan prior to the start of his campaign, I must admit to having...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2019 | 12:00 AM
It is a fact that many law-abiding citizens are bothered by the scale of recklessness displayed by motorists, especially those who operate public passenger vehicles. Indeed, more than 250,000 traffic tickets have been issued already this year for...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2019 | 12:00 AM
David Lloyd George was not very much liked by Dame Margot Asquith, the wittiest woman in England at the time and wife of the man he succeeded as prime minister of England in 1916, Herbert Humphrey Asquith. Renowned for her wit, Dame Margot said of...
This newspaper desperately wants to take at face value Robert Montague’s assurance of a positive medium-term outlook for the Alpart alumina refinery and that its Chinese owners, Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO), have been up front with the...
