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Published:Friday | August 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The 21st century started on a good note for recorded music globally. The early part of the new millennium heralded a move to some interesting and fresh music.Albums such as Speaker Box the Love Below, Outcast; Musicology, Prince; Fly or Die, N.E.R.D...

Published:Thursday | August 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Every nation-state has its national myths, and one of ours is that we "won" our political independence from our colonial masters, such that our political leaders at the time deserve to be declared national heroes. It suits the United Kingdom (UK)...

Published:Thursday | August 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM

There is now an extended soft opening of sorts until the official opening planned for September, but with more than 800 beach lovers on some of these hot summer days, Puerto Seco Beach is already open for business.Nestled in the 'garden parish',...

Published:Thursday | August 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM

For a number of days this week, an acrid haze hung low over large swathes of the Kingston metropolitan region, where around a quarter of Jamaica's 2.7 million people lives. That smoke was from the city's dump - pretentiously called a landfill - at...

Published:Wednesday | August 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

A week ago, the British parliament suspended the Northern Ireland MP Ian Paisley for 30 sitting days, starting September 4. It is the longest disbarment of a member ever recorded in the Commons. Mr Paisley has also been suspended by the Democratic...

Published:Wednesday | August 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It has become the mantra in workable parliamentary democracies that the buck, wherever it may gain its first start, can stop at only one place. Here.Dr Andrew Wheatley, a man with a doctorate in basic medicine and most recently only two-thirds of a...

Published:Wednesday | August 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Our enslaved ancestors suffered gross and serious violations of their human rights. The enslaved peoples of the 17th century were considered non-human, with no political rights, no civil rights, no human rights, no economic rights, and were not seen...

Published:Wednesday | August 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

When Jamaica became an independent nation in 1962, I doubt that there was a single Jamaican who did not have immeasurable hopes of success for their country, a world leader in every respect and filled with opportunities. After all, their forefathers...

Published:Tuesday | July 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It was a long, circumlocutory process, but Prime Minister Andrew Holness finally prevailed on Andrew Wheatley to leave the Cabinet. That is a positive development for governance, as well as for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and the politics...

Published:Tuesday | July 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The next time you're in Black River, find your way down the western side of the river near the bridge. Tasty Foods, a modest eating establishment, is behind the market, and in its parking lot in 2007 the Jamaica National Heritage Trust erected a...

Published:Monday | July 30, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Devastated. That's how I feel about the admission by the former managing director of National Energy Solutions Limited (NESol), Carolyn Warren, that she had five previous criminal convictions on top of the suspended sentence she was handed for a...

Published:Monday | July 30, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The issue at hand, in the matter of violent crime is the correctness of the policy of prolonged public emergencies that the Government is pursuing. Since this policy is largely based on reduced murders of 65 per cent in St James and 13.2 per cent...

Published:Monday | July 30, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Warren Weir, you owe me my 20 minutes back. I watched the entire video you shared on social media, and with every second that passed, my disappointment in you deepened.I'm pretty sure that that wasn't your intention. In the unlikely event that no...

Published:Monday | July 30, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Trevor Forrest appears unconvinced by the essential logic of the arguments of those who found error in his 2016 attempt to parachute Carolyn Warren on to a shortlist of candidates for a job at the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA), which was...

Published:Monday | July 30, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Recently I had a heartfelt conversation with a devout Christian lady. She lost her husband to a heart attack more than a year ago and is still grieving. I knew her husband as well, and they had a beautiful relationship, a strong and fulfilling...

Published:Sunday | July 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The TVJ Sunday evening news anchor read a story about a homicide in Nineteen Miles, Clarendon. He said, "Lydia Beacon used an ice prick to stab Thompson ... ."It was a very sad story; indeed, we have quite a few murders occurring because of domestic...

Published:Sunday | July 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Over the past two decades, especially since the late 1990s collapse of a large swathe of the island's financial sector, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has operated with a fair degree of autonomy, driven largely by the demands of a liberalised economy....

Published:Sunday | July 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

All that transpired at the town hall meeting last Tuesday should encourage us to rethink the entire idea of developing Heroes Park and its environs.First of all, despite the Government's crowing, we are still a highly indebted and grossly income-...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Emancipation Day is a prime occasion for us to reflect on the legacies of plantation slavery.  On August 1, 1834, enslaved Africans were emancipated. Sort of! They were forced to work for free for another four years under a new...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Whenever I’m stupid enough or sufficiently bored to get into a discussion about the greatest footballer of today’s generation, Messi or Ronaldo, I annoy the supporters of either candidate by announcing that Andres Iniesta, by any...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

There was a lot of exhaling after last week's talks in Washington between Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. Mr Trump retreated from one flank of his global trade offensive. At least, he called a truce.While his 25...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In governance administration, interlocking directorships refers to the practice of members of a corporate board of directors serving on boards of multi-corporations or related entities. Strictly speaking, interlocking directorates are not illegal in...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Canada is an important trading partner of Jamaica and other CARICOM member states in goods and services. With Canada and some CARICOM member states being former colonies of Britain and members of the Commonwealth, trade between them dates back over...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It is easy to stand on a platform and rally action against people who are suspected of carrying out criminal acts. But for people to act, there has to be credible evidence of this wrongdoing.We refer to the call by Deputy Superintendent Carl Berry,...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Congratulations are due to everyone who has participated in producing the Jamaica Women's Health Survey 2016 that was recently launched. The research has pulled back the curtain on intimate partner violence (IPV) that women and girls face in...

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