In all probability, Rudolph Speid is a good and decent man who doesn’t drink, swear, carouse, lie or anything untoward or unethical to advance his own interest at the expense of others. He might even wear a halo. But that doesn’t mean that Mr...
As I “head” into my 80th birthday next Saturday, I thought about a few matters that used to matter. I can live without sex, but not without my glasses. If any of you, my friends and readers want to try that three-letter word, all of you will catch...
I was sitting in my dentist’s chair, one of the few events in which, while my mouth was open, I could not speak. Even as she worked methodically, my dentist spoke close enough to my ear that her words were unmistakable. “The tragedy of Gaza,” she...
“Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven”. (From the Lord’s Prayer) This is a revised and annotated version of a presentation I gave last Sunday evening at an online public forum entitled “The Power of the Christian...
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.” I bet Marcus Garvey didn’t know this snippet of his 1937 speech would be repeated by so many, for so long...
It is widely expected that Prime Minister Andrew Holness will, within a week, announce the date for the general election, for which his Government and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) have been campaigning for the better part of a year...
As a wave of allegations of breaches of Jamaica’s political code of conduct reignites concerns about the capacity of the reconfigured political ombudsman to properly do its job, questions are being asked of what can be done to prevent the new...
IF LIKE me, you’ve been inundated with the latest news coming out of the United States about that country’s war on illegal and undocumented immigrants, then without a doubt, something interesting should have jumped out at you. While America’s...
THE EMANCIPATION Day holiday, as we celebrate it in 2025, can never fully recall the passions and the immensity of the feelings that must have overwhelmed the Africans who, 190 years ago, were to hear the “proclamation of liberty to the captives”,...
I TAKE this opportunity to salute the memory of Dr Velma Pollard, poet, scholar, author, activist, philanthropist, and a dedicated Christian. She was not one who sought publicity or acclaim but was simply someone who dedicated to her craft and...
If Cricket West Indies (CWI) is seriously intending to honour the memory of Don Wehby – as its president, Kishore Shallow, says it is – it must urgently provide a timetable for a radical overhaul of its governance structures. This restructuring...
WE ARE all feeling the heat. It seems that the historic average high temperature in July in Kingston and St Andrew was about 31 degrees Celsius (88 degrees Fahrenheit). For this July, it seems that the average afternoon temperature is now over 32...
Recently, fellow music lovers on Tweeter have been encouraging me to post various musical Top Ten lists. While creating my list of male Jamaican singers I was transported in a mental time machine to my childhood when my mother introduced me to the...
Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Daryl Vaz, recently announced the introduction of a rural school bus programme utilising 110 refurbished American school buses. However, there are safety concerns as the buses are old (...
The good news is that the intended operator/manager of the proposed Harmony Cove leisure development in Trelawny plans to pay the highest wages in Jamaica’s hospitality industry when they start to hire staff. That promise has been repeated a...
When Prime Minister Andrew Holness cut the ribbon last week to launch Phase one of the Harmony Cove resort in Duncans, Trelawny, it was more than a ceremonial gesture. It was a national inflection point – a moment for Jamaica to confront its...
The tenth Jamaica Developers Association (JDA) webinar, ‘Housing with a Purpose,’ drew a record-breaking audience. This June, nearly 1,000 participants joined, up from the 200 who usually attend. With Jamaica facing a shortfall of 190,000 housing...
The exam questions for some 7th graders struggling with literacy and mathematics, were posed in standard English. Most of these students have difficulty with sound and letter identification despite two years of infant school and five years of...
In today’s hyper-connected world, we can order goods from across the globe with a single click, and our economies are more intertwined through global trade than ever before. When we think about the environmental impact of global trade, production,...
The share of bilateral exports between Africa and the Caribbean, despite extensive shared history, has never surpassed six per cent, according to an ITC and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) study, leaving much room for growth of up to $2.1...
Energy has shaped humanity’s path – from mastering fire, to harnessing steam, to splitting the atom. Today, we’re at the dawn of a new era. The sun is rising on a clean energy age. Last year, nearly all new power capacity came from renewables....
It’s that time of the year again – Emancipation Day followed by Independence Day. A lot is made of our emancipation from slavery and our independence from our colonial master. But how many individuals and communities in Jamaica are truly free? How...
Flashing back to the undeclared civil war of the 1970s to 1980s, one has to agree prima facie with the declaration by Minister of Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, that if re-elected, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will be taking...
In Sudan, which has been in the throes of civil war for more than two years, over 24 million face starvation as the parties to the conflict – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of recognised leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid...
Given the recent quarrels between the Government and the political Opposition over the administration’s pre-election announcement of major expansions to the mandate of the state-owned transportation company, the parties must urgently deliver what...
