I am mindful when using the word 'prosperity' now. Because of its appropriation by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), it is almost a dirty word in some circles.Boldly, the 'Man a Yard' has boasted about boosting employment and gross domestic...
I want to publicly thank the Companies Office of Jamaica for preparing me and others out there for hell. After going through the business registration process that you put us through, we've been conditioned to face the toughest future of...
As I pointed out in an earlier column, Jamaican men cry rape every time women say, "Yes, let's say their names." A kind of hysteria breaks out because somehow they hear this as women demanding the right to falsely accuse men of raping them. But this...
Anthony Gifford, the British peer who has made Jamaica his home, is a lawyer of sharp intellect whose heightened social conscience has made him an indefatigable campaigner for justice and human rights around the world.It is hardly surprising that he...
Jamaica is hopelessly out of whack when it comes to this vexed issue of child sex abuse."Under seventeen are you over sixteen?Ah beg yu rock and come eenbecause a one general inna di yard."Jamaican men publicly steer clear of flouting the law, but...
Derek Walcott, by his work, achieved three colossal feats.First, he wrote about the Caribbean landscape in such a way as to magnify it. Not only did he give our landscape a certain epic status, he conferred on it deific significance. As perhaps,...
The Tambourine Army has burst into life like a powerful storm that brings the promise of new growth. On March 11, it organised an effective protest march against domestic violence. Now, one of its founders is facing a charge of malicious publication...
We are willing to afford Andrew Holness a bit of slack from his recent entanglement in defining the purpose of the National Housing Trust (NHT), which he said is not a housing agency, but a financial institution. For, we sense that the prime...
The Tambourine Army describes itself as a “radical social-justice movement committed to uprooting the scourge of sexual violence and safeguarding the rights of women and girls”. Co-founder Latoya Nugent was arrested last week and...
In the grand scheme of things, politicians are generally cunning and hardy animals. Their tough skins and broad backs enable them to not only survive, but to thrive in harsh and demanding climates such as ours.These opportunistic creatures are quite...
I always wonder who advises politicians when they come up with ideas to enhance their chances of winning elections. Not too long ago, this ruling political party made election promises to provide no-user-fee health services. They assumed that since...
The major victim, so far, in the squabble led by Calabar High School over the eligibility of Aryamanya Rodgers for this year's Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships is the young man himself. If reason, balance and good sense don't prevail, the...
It was refreshing to be in the House of Representatives last Tuesday and Thursday by comparison to many previous sittings. The presentations of Peter Phillips and Portia Simpson Miller caused listeners to think, to appreciate good oratory, and to...
The recent events surrounding the #saytheirnames campaign, which calls on survivors of sexual violence to name their abusers, and the arrest and detention of human-rights activist Latoya Nugent for breaches of the Cybercrimes Act for reportedly...
We can't comment on the merits of the criminal case the police have laid against Latoya Nugent, one of the founders of the feminist advocacy group that calls itself the Tambourine Army. We, however, deem to be bunkum their a priori claim of bias in...
A year and two Budgets later, there are three possibilities: the $1.5m was a joke, a massive miscalculation, or an outright lie. Or maybe it's a bit of all three. I will get there. But first, let's talk about how to catch monkeys.Take a jar and cut...
In a liberal democracy, the will of the people is sought because it comes with permission for social engineering. Social engineering encompasses the use of inducements to cause people to respond for their greater collective good. It thus becomes...
Anytime mi go Papine Market pon Saturday morning, mi see bout four Jehovah Witness a gi out tract. Dem tush, yu see! Dem sit off pon chair eena shady an dem have one stand weh dem put out di tract dem pon. One morning mi go faas...
"The honourable gentleman is guilty of tedious repetition and monumental irrelevance."This was a comment made in the Trinidad Parliament in the late 1950s by the Honourable Lionel Seukeran who, despite not being in the ruling party or because of it...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) should stun residents of the city and show that it is doing something about the garage nuisance at Cortina Close.The situation of the existing garage in a residential neighbourhood and the...
Deportees (Things Change) is the product of the lyrical ingenuity and extraordinary talent of Mark Myrie, otherwise known as Buju Banton. It provides an interesting narrative of the bounded rational choices that some...
We used to call it 'women's studies' - as legitimate a branch of sociological investigation as 'black studies' or 'poverty studies'. Or 'men's studies'. There is no segment of society that is unworthy of special study to explore its specific...
With each passing day, there seems to be more drama unfolding regarding Ugandan runner Ari Rodgers and his participation for Kingston College (KC) in the upcoming Boys Championships. School administrations, chief among them Calabar High, are...
He hasn't sent it the entire length of the field, but Audley Shaw is kicking Jamaica's slow-paced pension-reform project, or an important element thereof, some way down the pitch.On Wednesday, he announced that the Government will have a phased...
This is an open letter to Prime Minister Andrew Holness from the College of Fellows of the Jamaican Institute of Architects, including Clifton Yap, Marvin Goodman, Robert Woodstock, Ray, McIntyre, Ann Hodges, Carl Chen, Douglas Stiebel and Errol...
