Last Sunday, I wrote a piece on the political crisis in Venezuela. Then on Wednesday, I wrote an article on Donald Trump's hyperbolic language about North Korea. But it never occurred to me that the next article would be about Trump, North Korea AND...
Published:Monday | August 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMRobert Evans
It certainly is a privilege to be a member of the generation that has been able to enjoy the performances of Usain St Leo Bolt - by far the most extraordinary sprinter the world has ever seen.He has run against royalty (unfortunately losing under...
The current barrage of verbal exchanges between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, is part of a long, miserable and contentious relationship between both countries.The acrimony can be...
Peter Bunting is not an ordinary Jamaica citizen and is in no position to insist to be so considered. He is not only an extraordinarily successful entrepreneur, but he has held high political office, including the critical one of minister of...
Published:Sunday | August 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMGarth Rattray
The amazing talents of our elite track athletes have spoilt us. Their repeated international successes and world dominance caused many to see them as unbeatable. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some years ago, a scientific group did a...
Recently, I was called to see a patient of mine who was in labour. When I arrived at the maternity unit of the hospital and entered the labour room, I saw her lying supine in the bed, in the middle of a contraction, with a woman tightly grasping one...
One of the grave weaknesses of our national culture is to depreciate the value of infrastructure and institutions in which others have made significant investment, financially and socially.For example, there are four community centres in central...
As vulgarly perverse as the findings of the constabulary administrative review into the conduct of their officers during the Tivoli Gardens operation may have been, they can, at least, claim that they not only did something, but shared the outcome...
As we came down from the excitement of Great Aunt Babsy's annual Gala bashment, the sobering reality of what we call life on this rock after half a century of so-called Independence knocked many of our patriots senseless and irreparably damaged the...
There's been a spectacular exhibition on Jamaican music at the Philharmonie de Paris that closed today after four months. More than 50,000 visitors viewed this truly inspiring tribute to our musical culture. The exhibition was brilliantly curated by...
These are their names: Wray Palmer, Kent Pantry, Hilton McDavid, Errol Johnson, Hartley Perrin. They had, as their legal counsel, Andrew Lewis and Wesley Watson, who, like Mr Palmer, the chairman, are senior police officers.That's the group that...
We might have blown our opportunities in the past by not elevating engineers to a pivotal role in our society. We might have missed out by discounting their full significance in ensuring robust growth. But all is not lost if one adds credence to the...
Sadly, we are not unfamiliar with instances where politicians go after citizens. It is usually an unequal battle, because the ordinary citizen doesn't have the bully pulpit, the same access to media, or diehard supporters. So it's not a pleasant...
If you think education is expensive, try the alternative. For years, the Jamaican high schools have been stratified according to their results by the population at large.All of these schools now have in common the mandatory interference from...
The first few legs of Wendel McKoy’s life were marked by doom and saturated by struggle. Almost dying after being born prematurely, predicted next in line to go mentally ill after all his older siblings were admitted to mental institutions...
At the age of 71, Coco Chanel, French fashion designer and astute entrepreneur, had already created Chanel No. 5, the scent of the 1920s, and introduced the Chanel suit that is described as "a perfect melange of femininity, polish and timelessness...
The trucker dispute with Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) may have been settled, but the impact of the recent disruption may continue to hurt the productive sector and the economy for a long time.Truckers have been complaining about the...
Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter in the history of athletics. I bestow this accolade by virtue of the phenomenal times he has run, the way he has dominated and devastated contender pretenders to his sprint throne in...
Right after news broke of Prof Brendan Bain's dismissal from his post at the UWI years ago, I lashed the committee in an intended newspaper column thus: "[W]hen a UWI group behaves the way Prof. Nigel Harris' committee has behaved, then it is just...
We had hoped that George Quallo might have proved an exception to the Peter Principle to become a transformative leader of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). But four months into his stint as commissioner of police, this newspaper is rapidly...
I have now obtained a copy of the written submission made by the Rt Rev Howard Gregory, Anglican Lord Bishop of Jamaica, to the joint select committee of Parliament considering amendments to the Sexual Offences Act, and so I can comment more...
It has been a strange World Championships for Jamaica. The results so far have made a mockery of the form books, and our legion of track and field experts have not looked like the gurus they project themselves as. Who can blame them, though?Who...
Fortuitously, the hearings of the commission of enquiry into the West Kingston operation were, but for a few sessions held in camera, televised. The public, therefore, not only had unfiltered access to the evidence, but could arrive at their own...
I did not intend to comment on the recent case of 'Foot in Mouth Disease' that overcame Education Minister Ruel Reid. However, when I read of the reported tweet by People's National Party (PNP) vice-president Angela Brown Burke blaming 'Andrew' [...
Almost twice as many Jamaicans believe Jamaica made a mistake to break from the British Empire in 1962, as against those who don't. According to the Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll, 49 per cent of Jamaicans believe the country would be better...
