Public outcry has forced a retreat by the Jamaican subsidiary of the Bank of Nova Scotia from the near-thousandfold increase in the price it charged customers for changing cheques drawn on other banks.But that acquiescence to consumer pressure is...
It's horrifying to think that some of the sectors/industries that successive governments have depended and prided themselves on to prove their ability to grow the economy are seemingly responsible for such rampant abuse of the rights of their...
The Young and the Restless TV star, 57-year-old old Victoria Rowell, a foster child, is searching for her Jamaican dad without success. In spite of her fame and fortune and having two children, this accomplished actress, writer, producer and dancer...
Published:Wednesday | December 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM
A case could always be made that if a people were stolen from their homeland, shackled, transported and made to serve the whims and fancies of those who disrupted their very existence, then it ought to be expected that the stolen person, once given...
Published:Wednesday | December 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM
We understand the risks thereto, but this newspaper is not inherently opposed to people involved in partisan politics holding executive jobs in government agencies, once they are qualified for their jobs and are capable of drawing a clear line...
I have, from close quarters, seen men beat the hell out of women on two occasions that have been seared into my memory.In the first incident, I was walking around outside in my yard on a moonless night, made darker by the fact that my granny couldn'...
If it isn't plastic rice, what is it?For a week now, there have been widespread fears across Jamaica that plastic rice is being sold throughout the island. The fears began with a video from one woman who was cooking what should have been gungo rice...
"He has gone to a better place," said the pastor, unshakeable in his belief, while delivering the eulogy at a funeral I attended recently. Of course, we would want the best for our deceased Jamaican brother and wish him bon voyage to this better...
We don't know who killed Devon Fray, or why. But on the latter, we can hazard a guess.Our conclusion, we expect, would be similar to most Jamaicans', which, if we are right, would make it a hate crime, a category that the police neither track nor...
On November 23, Minister Audley Shaw gave the main address at a town-hall forum at the Montego Bay Convention Centre titled 'Our Dreams for Jamaica'. The forum was the culmination of a series of civic-responsibility workshops undertaken by the...
Since we last handed out these coveted Domino Awards, the man I introduced in 2016 as "the best domino player I know", Sandy Park elder, adviser and protector known to all and sundry as 'Bas', unfortunately passed away. As promised, Mauva and I...
When things are not going your way in Jamaica, when bad luck seems to follow your every move, there is a local saying, "Yuh mussi tief smaddy white fowl." If that's true, Nikita O'Brien Miller must have stolen several. He may well have a whole coop...
Violence can be a beautiful thing, which is to say that acts of aggression against a person who resists can give pleasure to the senses. If not for this, action movies would lose their flavour, some of dancehall would lose its groove, and murders...
Two months ago when he spoke to a parliamentary committee about the finances of the University of Technology (UTech), Maurice Smith, then the permanent secretary in Jamaica's education ministry, said the institution needed to be "reimagined".There...
The matter having already languished five months in ministerial purgatory, it is well past time that the Government answers the Opposition's questions on its current position on Britain's offer of £25 million, with a proviso, to help build a new,...
Yes, yes, I know. I know that Yeshua was not born this time of the year. I know that the celebration of His birth was aligned with (piggy-backed on) a well-known pagan holiday because it was convenient. I know that several religious denominations...
We all, including the hapless commissioner of Police, are wringing our hands at the spate of domestic violence over the past year. Both political parties think that more stringent laws and harsher penalties will deter the anger which spills blood...
Jamaica was jittery as usual last week when a new wave of moral panic overtook the island, this time in relation to reports of plastic rice infiltrating our already poor diets.In terms of dietary staples, rice is practically on every national dish...
Di Leader a di Opposition, Portia Simpson Miller, have every right fi oppose di name a di "Partnership for a Prosperous Jamaica." Di partnership not suppose fi big up ongle one party. It no fi partial. All a di party dem inna di...
In my numerous interactions with Jamaicans from all walks of life, I continue to be impacted by a mixed sense of optimism about the future of our beloved country. In each of those encounters, what has struck me most is the oftentimes pessimistic...
Much of what Delroy Williams said sounded like cliched pap, the kind of untethered, shiny-object oration you expect from the chairman of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), every time a new head of the capital's local government is sworn...
The year 2016 began in Jamaica with a great deal of uncertainty. There was talk of a general election and there were queries about a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement and whether we should even have one. The economy was of concern. The...
We learn pretty quickly on that we are not gods, and the world resists our desire to master it. People, too, are recalcitrant; they don't do what we want them to. But we have an idea that things should be a certain way, and because it is not, our...
Wherever we came from to the Caribbean, rice quickly became a staple. You can have it with peas in some countries and you can have your peas with rice in Jamaica, you can have 'pelau' (pronounced 'pay-lawh'), pilaf, fried rice, dirty rice (in the...
Dear fellow Christians, Advent greetings to you all! Peace be unto you from God, Our father and our, Lord Jesus, the Christ!The leadership of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) is concerned about the ongoing senseless killings and vicious assaults on...
