One of the lasting benefits of growing up in Seventh-day Adventism is the confidence the Church gave me to go against the grain. Most Christians went to church on Sunday. We were Sabbath-keepers. The crowds of misguided Sunday worshippers were...
The disorder caused by the recent taxi driver strike, in response to what they perceived to be excessive penalties in the proposed amendments to the Road Traffic Act, has given cause for reflection. The Government, in response, has delayed the bill...
A recent study by the University of Technology, Jamaica, has found that Jamaican teens are as hyperconnected as their counterparts in the United States. The study is a snapshot of the extent to which digital technologies are influencing the lives of...
The announcement by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) that local lettuce is safe ought to give some assurance to the public in light of reports of E. coli bacteria-tainted romaine lettuce in several regions of the United States....
Yesterday and today, Jamaica, representing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), joins the members of the Group of Twenty (G20) and other invited guests at the 13th Summit in Buenos Aires hosted by the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri. Argentina...
My most embarrassing typo, a phenomenon aided by the omnipresent spellcheck that is incorporated in today's word-processing software, was leaving out the 'l' in the word 'public' that came before 'relations' in something I was writing about my job...
It says something, or rather plenty, in our view, that of the cultural forms that this year made UNESCO's list of intangible treasures worth preserving, it is reggae that made global headlines. Not Czech puppetry, or the horsemanship of a riding...
The robust conversations surrounding the implementation of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) continue, and rightly so.There are gaps in utterances and errors made even from the Ministry of Education, which has overall responsibility for curriculum (...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised to provide us Jamaicans with job descriptions for our members of parliament (MPs) and Cabinet ministers so that we can hold them accountable. I suspect that the reason we have not yet received them is...
Published:Wednesday | November 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM
With the Court of Appeal having earlier this month ruled against the public defender's attempt to join, as an interested party, Maurice Tomlinson's constitutional challenge of Jamaica's buggery law, we hope the underlying matter will now move ahead...
Published:Wednesday | November 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM
So, the new Road Traffic Act was passed in Parliament, taxi operators protested against certain provisions, and the Senate, behaving like eunuchs in protecting vote-dom rather than country-dom, postponed rather than address the matter. Not...
Building a culture of lawfulness was the thrust of executive director of Security and Counter Terrorism at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Owen Ellington, former commissioner of police (2009-14), in an article published recently on the CMU'...
Published:Wednesday | November 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM
About two weeks ago, I met with a source and we both sat at a small table in one corner of a seedy bar on the edge of a tough inner-city community. My source's story was one of corruption in high places and a thousand-and-one other misdeeds.As he began to speak...
Nigel Clarke is right about the Jamaican attitude towards people who own businesses that go belly up. Rather than seeing failure as one potential outcome of capitalist risk-taking, it's often conflated with a character flaw, and entrepreneurial...
In recent times, there has been a push for a more diverse culture in organisations. Companies are somewhat forced to include diversity in their hiring process. Diversity does not only speak to race, disability, sexual orientation or gender, but to...
Our 1962 Independence has become dependence. We are still locked in the clutches of the so-called First-World countries which, having raped us, now dump their substandard and sometimes unwanted products on us.We cannot squeal, even if we wanted to,...
Our parliamentarians are currently reviewing the Anti-Gang (Suppression of Criminal Organisations) Act, attempting presumably to improve it. In the four years since it was passed, only two convictions have been secured by its use. As that could be...
Now that Finance Minister Nigel Clarke has committed the Holness administration to lifting the ban on pension funds investing in risky start-ups, the obvious extension of the discussion is about his plan with regard to their holding of foreign-...
Your editorial of Thursday, November 22, 2018, at a minimum, betrays a lack of understanding of the issues surrounding the performance task mock exam of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) done in June 2018. It also, unfortunately, ascribed improper...
Sometimes, a little success can go to one's head. Suddenly, the Old Ball and Chain believes this is HER space. She has been sending instructions on what I should write and applying corporal, lieutenant and captain punishment because she considers...
In the wake of the report of the public defender on the deplorable conditions in which detainees under the state of emergency are held, there have been some inaccurate statements about action taken to deal with the conditions in lock-ups and prisons...
John Allen Chau was a faithful and devout American Christian missionary. He was literally a man on a mission… to tell as many people as he could about Jesus Christ. The 26-year-old was a graduate of Oral Roberts University, a...
Published:Wednesday | November 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM
In 1999, the Center for Educational Research and Innovation, the research unit of the OECD, launched a project - 'Learning Sciences and Brain Research'. The objective was to increase the economic and social development of European countries and to...
On a recent journey, I noticed several cones, debris, and oil with sand near the Mammee Bay termination of the North-South Highway. I recalled seeing images of the spectacular aftermath of a crash that occurred there quite a few days before and...
Government needs to get out of the waste-management business. We acknowledge the timeliness of the recent call by the powerful business umbrella group, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), urging the Government to proceed to divestment...
