It's another of the recent revelations about the United States that they be taught a thing or two by Jamaica about the management of elections and maintaining the legitimacy of their democracy.When Jamaica last voted for a government in February...
I'm remembering back some 25 years ago when Nigel was kind enough to loan me a necktie while we were both in Barbados competing for the Rhodes Scholarship. He, perfectly prepared, grumbled slightly but assisted me, the ill-equipped upstart. So you...
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) concludes its annual conference today, and if last week's warm-up at an area get-together was an indication of what's in store, prosperity has arrived and Jamaica has no more pain, no more problems.So bullish were the...
Spice done know seh plenty people nah go like fi ar big chune, Black Hypocrisy. Shi no bizniz. A so it go. Who waan bex, mek dem bex. Hear weh shi seh:"I was told I would reach furtherIf the colour of mi skin was lighterAnd I was...
In response to your editorial 'Is Israeli intelligence the difference?' (Gleaner, November 14, 2018), the reader is led to believe that intelligence gathering in the Jamaica Constabulary Force is suddenly improving based on the number of 'clear-ups...
Hardly a week passes without news of another horrific crash somewhere in this country. An average 300 persons have perished in vehicular accidents every year since 2012. Many of the victims are in the prime of their lives, young, productive and full...
Workplace diversity is a topic that has been in vogue for a while. Yet many Jamaican companies are still grappling with defining what this means to their organisation, communicating why diversity is important and finding ways to consistently and...
Travelling throughout Jamaica or at times looking at cricket from Sabina Park on television, I grinned a little every time I saw the sign, "This is TING country." In that context, Ting is a carbonated beverage sold in Jamaica and some other...
If you didn't know better, you might have concluded that Prime Minister Andrew Holness was having another, and personal, shot at litigating the NIDS case, or attempting, from the margins, to influence the ruling of the three judges who heard the...
"Not another one." These are the words I whisper to myself when yet another child's face pops up on my screen: missing. Violence against women and children is at an all-time high. Not a day passes without new reports of lost, abused, or murdered...
A pitched battle is raging here in Jamaica. Casualties are mounting, and annually, number in the thousands. Cumulatively, over the last few years, it has been in the tens of thousands. If we allow the merchants of death to have their way, it will be...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
This is the approach to which Richard Byles alluded in September when he spoke, to the ire of the sector's honchos, about lifting the quality of business processing outsourcing (BPO) jobs in Jamaica. In a way, it's a little like the future catching...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Two Wednesdays ago my ex-wife, my mechanic and I were in a little bar at the corner of Park Lane and Red Hills Road. I had assisted her in having my mechanic do some front-end repairs to her car and we came to the little joint to chat, drink, hang...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Not so fast with abortion, until it is determined when life begins, the effect of abortion on a mother, the case for a rape victim to abort a pregnancy; and what to do with a foetus with lethal abnormality.Abortion, that is, the deliberate and...
We have all been 'schooled' on the brutal realities of slavery which, although long past, have left indelible scars upon our society to this day. Such scars are manifest in the largely angry tone of daily goings-on around us, by the manner in which...
Bauxite mining has now arrived in Walkerswood, St Ann. There is large-scale mining of bauxite taking place to the east and south of Walkerswood. The bauxite company is carrying out its activities with no regard to the green hills of Walkerswood and...
It is no secret that the decision in the case of Jason Jones v Council of Legal Education and others, at the Caribbean Court of Justice, is a sad one for most, if not all, non-UWI LLB holders.The main contention was that the practice of the Council...
The evidence suggests that the intelligence-gathering capacity of Jamaica's security forces may be improving. At last, they seem, recently, to know where notorious criminals are likely to turn up, with, unfortunately, deadly consequences for the...
Don't, they say, speak ill of the dead, which might have taken Delroy Williams, the mayor of Kingston, off the hook. Except that his death is only metaphoric, and, if it were real, would be akin to a recurring case of catalepsy, or the Lazarus...
Matters concerning the economy and dealing with violent crime are the two tracks which have provided the booming soundtrack to every election contested in Jamaica since Independence. And where the economy is concerned, both the opposition and...
There are 5,000 children who are wards of the State in Jamaica, give or take. Many of the 5,000 feel as if nobody wants them: not their parents, not their family members, not strangers. In their minds, had they been wanted, a mass government-run...
It's time to piss off the Old Ball and Chain again and talk of cricket.Her column of two Tuesdays ago was very popular, mainly among women, many of whom stopped me in the streets, at an X-ray lab, at lawyers' offices, and at a popular plaza to tell...
The issue of corporal punishment is again topical. Research, carried out over decades, has shown that disciplining children by beating them may do more harm than good. But there is a stubborn resistance to accept this by many Jamaicans....
John Mahfood generally strikes you as one of Jamaica's more civic-minded business moguls, and over the past two years or so, he has been particularly intense in his bare-knuckled advocacy on solutions for crime and the uplift of poor, marginalised...
At the International Conference on Teachers and Teaching that Jamaica proudly hosted last week in Montego Bay, there was much talk about transforming education to meet the purposes of what is called the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'. Well, whatever...
