In spite of my penchant for risqué humour, I confess that I’m a bit prudish. I appreciate traditional dance and I’m always pleased with the preservation of our African roots. However, the suggestive sexual / fertility tones of...
Not for the first time, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has urged Jamaicans to invest in stocks and has dangled the opportunity they will have when the Government eventually divests, through an IPO, Wigton Windfarm, an energy company owned by the...
This newspaper doesn’t much like Nicolas Maduro. We believe his leadership of Venezuela has been incompetent and inept and that he has manipulated, and in some cases hijacked, the country’s democratic institutions to authoritarian ends.But we also...
In 2015, Jamaica ranked 58 on the Ease of Doing Business Index, in 2018 the ranking worsened to 70. Generally speaking, the efforts to bring public sector costs in line with available resources have not had success. While there can be no doubt that...
In examining the significant gains in employment that the country has enjoyed recently, as well as paying attention to the nature and character of our unemployment, especially youth unemployment which remains stubbornly high, two quotes from two...
“Well, the girls in town nowadays they wearin' these tight, tight pants, And if you ketch them a night-time boys, well, they have no chance, So listen carefully to what the Young Killer have to say, Only wear these tight, tight...
CCTV surveillance, is it good, bad or in between? To answer this question, we must carefully consider the capabilities of the digital eye. Firstly, it depicts an unbiased and objective account of a series of events. For Jamaica, in particular, it...
Jamaica is not short on examples of the negative effects of patronage appointments to public-sector boards. Many high-profile boards have fallen by the wayside because of members’ failure to carry out their fiduciary duties and provide...
Jesus, the Christ, founded only one Church, and in His farewell to His followers just before He went to agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed to His Father for His apostles and disciples. Then He said: “My prayer is not for them alone...
With all the cash sloshing around Jamaica looking for potentially profitable ventures into which to settle, some of its owners will, hopefully, have been listening to Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados. She has invited them to the Eastern...
While we buzzed about ‘Petrojelly,’ Venezuela, the state of public emergency, and plastic scandal ban, there was a small enemy building up for a devastating attack. In the murder capital of the English-speaking Americas, the animal,...
Unfortunately, P.J. Patterson’s proposal for a body similar to the Electoral Commission to provide oversight to Jamaica’s national security apparatus is being subjected to the rules of the old playbook. Rather than the idea being judged...
Last Sunday, as I was reading through the various newspapers, my attention was drawn to reports highlighting the horrors of living in communities where violence has become so deeply entrenched that life itself has little value. The plight of people...
It’s an old story about old pipes and high pressure and precious water running into our gullies and eventually making its way to the salty sea. We know, of course, that it will come back later when the sun extracts it and dumps it as rain on...
Ruddy Mathison, a Gleaner writer, claimed that the prophecy made by a bishop came true: ‘. . . official police statistics show that there is a 21 per cent reduction in murders islandwide, fulfilling a prophecy he made . . .’ Then in the...
Whenever I spoke animatedly about something or the other from the news that fascinated me, my uncle, the senior attorney, would look at me with those know-it-all, seen-it-all-before, wise old eyes and say, “Nephew, there is nothing original,...
The assessment component of the New Standard Curriculum (NSC) at the primary level is referred to as the Primary Exit Profile (PEP). This component is designed to generate or provide evidence on the learners’ knowledge, understanding and...
The Jamaican Government’s emboldened stance against the Nicolás Maduro regime opens the door to a more muscular foreign-policy ideology and strategy, particularly as they relate to important industries and treasured assets. The Andrew...
It’s 9:30 on Sunday morning, and I'm just going home. My feet hurt from dancing for the last 14 and a half hours, and the sun is pelting my brown skin black - and I couldn't be happier. Rebel Salute satisfies my soul every single time...
America’s dominance of the last century was cemented following the end of WWII in 1945. Europe was exhausted, Japan was on its knees, and USSR and its allies were contained. The United States was in the ascendency. Its liberal values...
