States are not abstract ideas, nor are they ethereal entities of amorphous bodies. They operate with real institutions that have agency and, critically, are run by life-and-blood people. At their apex are governments that provide states with their...
At 6 p.m. tomorrow, Rusea's and Jamaica College will square off for the Olivier Shield title. The clichÈ that always goes with this game is that it is 'the symbol of schoolboy supremacy'. By pitting the Manning Cup champions to have a showdown...
Every year, the Time magazine chooses a Person of the Year - a person, a group, an idea, or an object that, according to its editors, "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". This week, Time magazine...
We want to share the police's seeming optimism that they are finally getting the hang of investigating gangs and making good use of the more than three-year-old law that gives them a special tool against criminal organisations. That, at least, is...
It was quite cool and comfortable for us as the mountain air drifted by the little shop/bar where we were gathered. It was a quaint and sleepy village perched atop a gentle rise in a section of South East St Mary. Sometime in the 1980s on a Sunday...
Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holiness said to Daniel Thomas, president of the Christian group Love March, "I reject the view that somehow you have a higher moral authority on this matter than I do," and then added afterwards that the discussion on the...
As Jamaica and its people grapple with spiralling crime and socio-economic challenges, the management mantra 'doing the right thing the first time around' appears to have become lost on many who, by their mere position and authority, could be...
Peter Phillips, in his recent address to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), gave an important, but little-noticed policy commitment that shouldn't await the advent of another People's National Party administration. Dr Phillips...
The recent kerfuffle about Prime Minister Holness and his response to Daniel Thomas of the Love March Movement at a recent OPM Live Youth Forum is interesting. I sought out the unedited footage and watched it, but could find little in it to justify...
Occasionally, it is important to put facts on the table, especially in an age when we are bombarded with fake news daily.In a recent newspaper article, claims were made that when the current minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett, took over in March...
Legislative reform is a marathon of unknown distance. Bills take years to become law and then decades to be reformed. That is unless the Government is passionate about the issue, in which case legislative reform is a sprint. The only trick is...
It matters naught that the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) may not have, in the past, invoked the principle of transparency in judicial appointments, or that they might have motives, other than those declared, for their suggestion to the...
Last week, I was incommunicado for three days undergoing a minor medical procedure.My disease? Getting older. Sing along with top-class American comedian Robert Klein to the tune of Dan Hill's 'Sometimes When We Touch'.I don't like getting older.It...
Why is my car so dramatic? Yes, I know my handbag is a little heavy, but that car good and well knows it's not a person. Nevertheless, every time I rest it on the passenger seat, the car won't stop the bloody beeping. I refuse to put the seat belt...
Oh, what a country we live in when one party masquerades as the only one capable when in government of passing 'perfect legislation' even as it sneers and acts all superior and haughty, claiming that any law passed by the other party is on the same...
I am not a fan of international beauty contests. Pageants such as Miss World and Miss Universe no longer hold my interest as much as they did when I was in my youth...
Much of the fuss this week revolved around the late realisation that as citizens of a country considered by many to be on the path towards development into a serious nation, there are certain discomforts that will be par for the course...
Good teachers in Jamaican schools are poorly paid, and the outcomes of our children suffer because the system does not attract the best quality and often cannot retain the really talented persons who do try teaching.Remember that in default of...
Given the proliferation of all-inclusive hotels in Jamaica, Taleb Rifai should have anticipated the sensitivity of industry officials to any criticism, real or imagined, of that model of tourism and, therefore, should have anticipated the backlash...
We've all heard the Jamaican phrase 'Every mickle makes a muckle'. It means that small things add up to a large amount. It's also an encouragement to be frugal, to save little by little in the expectation that it will add up to something big one day...
The good news is that there has been a sharp reduction in violence in Jamaican high schools over the last seven years. For instance, the likelihood of a student being in a physical fight is nearly 40 per cent less likely today than in 2010.But, as...
1. The first thing you must remember if you really want to fix road like how we do it a Jamaica is that as soon as the pothole start form, you not to see it. Every foetus and baby pothole must live! Therefore, continue walk and drive over the...
It has long been a bit of a puzzle to me what exactly parents are expected to do when the advisory 'Parental discretion is advised' comes up just before a TV news story or before some other show. What may be a matter of big drama and/or concern to...
There is a video floating around the Internet that was captured at the recent OPM Live Youth Forum hosted by the prime minister. In it, the prime minister is confronted by a young man named Daniel Thomas. This other Daniel identified himself as a...
Is nothing but bad-mind and grudgeful. Lisa Hanna's toned arms are an offence to women with Jello underarms. It's as simple as that. And I'm certainly not throwing words at Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, St Andrew West Rural MP, who accused Lisa Hanna of...
