Five hundred years ago next week Tuesday, German Roman Catholic priest and Augustinian monk Fr Martin Luther, OSA, wrote a scholarly letter (in Latin) to his bishop, Albrecht von Brandenburg, protesting the sale of indulgences. This document has...
I was among those who turned up at the Stadium East field last Saturday to watch the schoolboy football double-header. It appeared as if the entire island was there.People did turn up because they wanted to see the defending champions, Jamaica...
It is not our sense that anything has, up to now, taken place in South East St Mary that should jeopardise the holding of the parliamentary by-election there in four days' time. The political parties and their supporters should not only keep it that...
It was sometime in the late 1980s and the diminutive man was enjoying the huge footprint his commercial establishment had in the Jamaican business landscape. His initial cash outlay in business came by way of the successful dabbling in illicit ganja...
Recently, a 60-odd-year-old tour guide pointed out the statue of Queen Victoria in Nassau and said she gave Bahamians their freedom, hence her statue is prominently located in Parliament Square, a space for political rallies, popular protest and...
There is substantive documentary and real-life evidence which details the effects on the environment due to mans' reckless actions. Big-game hunting and poaching have been responsible for the near decimation of many species, often driven by man's...
En route to London a couple of weeks ago, I checked the limited offerings on British Airways' entertainment portal and decided to watch a documentary on Bitcoin, the electronic cash system or digital currency that is currently rocking the...
Stephen 'Franno' Francis leaving MVP Track Club is like Berry Gordy leaving Motown after firmly establishing the label as the foremost hit-making entity in the world. And while Gordy never left what he built, Franno's departure from MVP is to be...
A major perk of being tourism lecturers at one of Jamaica's prominent universities are the frequent opportunities to experience Destination Jamaica through the lens of our visitors. Most recent was an educational tour facilitated through UTech,...
Conventional wisdom will be to ascribe the situation in Montego Bay to the balloon effect: squeeze one side and it bulges at the other. So, the concentration, since last month, of police and soldiers in the community of Mount Salem under the zones...
Presenters (usually people with busy schedules) who sacrifice time and effort to hand out prizes at award functions deserve to be seen and heard by the honourees. They are usually invited to do the honours at these events because of their role-model...
Call it Miss Cleo clairvoyance, wishful thinking, whatever, all I know is that Shane Alexis needs to lose the race for South East St Mary. My desire for his defeat has nothing to do with Shane Alexis himself, and everything to do with a severely...
Stephen Vasciannie has offered a frank reminder of the need for a frank debate on the efficacy of the system for training lawyers in the English-speaking Caribbean, including the reasonableness of the near-monopoly of access to the region's law...
While we've been away, lots happened in faraway Fantasyland, Apocrypha.Oma D'unn, PhD in logic who solved political problems by parable, retired from politics. This meant his sage advice was more widely available so he set up a consultancy 'Oma...
Recently, a patient of mine consulted me for a minor gynaecological issue. While lying on the examination table, she began to berate me for my social media posts ...
Breast cancer is scary and it's the most common cancer in women. It is estimated that one in eight women will probably develop breast cancer. In spite of the advances in medical science, it remains a serious threat to all women.The risk of...
This initiative may, to some, carry a whiff of market day huckstering or a haberdasher's discounting rather than a proper dispensing of justice. But if it helps in clearing the logjam in Jamaica's courts, then it has the support of this newspaper....
Two big cities fell within 24 hours of each other last weekend. The fall of Raqqa in Syria, once the capital of all the territory ruled by ISIS, came after a five-month siege and was no surprise at all. The fall of the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk in...
The crowds attending the nomination exercises for next week's by-elections were large and enthusiastic - on a weekday morning. The mostly women, where I was, clearly had decided that the most productive task of that day was to 'follow backa' their...
Dis ya year a 15 year since di Jamaican Language Unit (JLU) set up a UWI. An a nuff big tings di unit do inna da time ya. A Prof Hubert Devonish im in charge a di unit. An im come up wid nuff plan fi devel it up. Eena May 2001,...
On September 25, I stumbled upon a tweet originating from the agriculture ministry with the headline 'Agriculture and fisheries ministry paves way for access to Chinese fisheries market'. At first glance, the headline suggested that the agreement...
This is Part 1 of a five-part series.Next month, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be celebrating 150 years since its formation. Such longevity usually suggests strength, acceptability, and success.For nearly one-third of the JCF's 150 years...
A few, though influential, people have argued that Shane Alexis' eligibility to sit in Jamaica's parliament is a matter for the courts. Not least among them is Abe Dabdoub, whose challenge to Daryl Vaz a decade ago placed firm in people's...
One parliamentary seat separated the Government from the Opposition after the last general election. This meant that every seat counts. If you're thinking that every seat always counts, think again. Ordinarily, after there's a big win for one of the...
Sentence reduction for defendants who enter early guilty pleas in their criminal trial is a step in the right direction in seeking to reform Jamaica's creaking justice system, which suffers from inordinate delays.Introduced in May this year, the...
