We're so accustomed to thinking of Haiti as the poorest country in the Americas that we often forget a fundamental truth. Wealth cannot always be measured in purely economic terms. Haiti is one of the richest countries of the world in intellectual...
The report by the Auditor General's Department showing oversize pension payments and unauthorised golden handshakes to the top bosses of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) is a scandal not only for its seeming brazenness, but for the apparent...
"Chance has never satisfied the hope of a suffering people."- Marcus Garvey Every time I step off the plane, head out along the Palisadoes road and look across the harbour at prime land in the heart of the city which holds such promise, I am taken...
As a country, we have certain recurring challenges that need resolution. If we are aware that these challenges and situations are constantly arising, the prudent management of our affairs demands that we establish policy and protocol to be applied...
If a child is born of parents who were not married at the time of birth, Dulhaime's Law Dictionary says it is born out of wedlock. People other than Dulhaime say worse things about children produced by such people under such circumstances.But there...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force lacks the manpower, mobility and other resources to effectively police Jamaica and meets its public-safety challenges. That is a fact.It has been reported, and not contradicted, that at any given time, less than half...
There has been no explanation for why it took all of 11 days after the end of Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley's visit to Jamaica for an official communiqué to be issued on the talks between him and his Jamaican counterpart, Andrew...
The Olympic Games are right upon us, but pardon me if I chose to write on something else today. The next few articles I write will be based on the happenings in Rio, so I am using this opportunity to squeeze in this piece before we are all consumed...
One of the problems with marking historical events with holidays is that people begin to believe that they are full-blown achievements. When we celebrate Emancipation and Independence, what we actually do is mark the anniversary of the coming into...
In a recent interview, Mike Fennell, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), stated that the JOA had consulted extensively with key stakeholders in the selection of the location of the training camp for Jamaica's track and field team for...
The recent wave of terrorist attacks in Europe and North America by radicalised Islamic elements has brought renewed interest in the study: A Report of the World's Changing Demographics. This study published in 2008 predicts the demise of White...
Recently, on a visit to the slave museum in Nassau, The Bahamas, courtesy of Rev Dr Timothy Stewart, pastor of the historic Bethel Baptist Church, there was the realisation that Jamaica needs a slave museum.This Pompey Slave Museum is in honour of...
This week Barack Obama, the American president, posed a serious and substantive ethical question to the leadership of the Republican Party about what it says of their party and themselves that Donald Trump is, and remains, their standard-bearer for...
"In the Jamaican #ZikaZone, where the disease is rumoured to be population control, #Zika is spreading from Kingston and St Andrew westward across the island. Jamaica has 55 laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika out of 2,845 'suspected cases', numbers...
THE EDITOR, Sir:It is out of sheer frustration that I am forced to write about the poor service I have received from Digicel.I have had Digicel Play for just over three weeks, having been 'forced' to continue with the service after Telstar sold the...
Published:Tuesday | August 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMRobert F. Evans
Jamaica, for well over a year, has had the number one karateka in the region an eighth dan who as head of the Northern Caribbean Region for the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) sits on the Technical Committee of the world body of...
While an IPO, as thus far articulated, for a piece of the National Water Commission (NWC) is unlikely to be the surest way to raise the level of capital required to fix the company, this newspaper believes that divesting other government companies,...
By now, it should've dawned on impatient, young Jamaicans that giving our flawed police force powers to abrogate citizens' hard-earned constitutional rights won't address Jamaica's crime problem except to compound it.By now, calm, reflective thought...
It's a sad state when the magnifying glass of mistrust is pointed so squarely in the direction of our leaders. Fair or otherwise, today's politicians are feared to be culpable of skulduggery and nepotism, and too often the fears are proven true.As...
The trade unions that have expressed unease at the Government's declared plan to divest itself of some of its ownership of the National Water Commission (NWC) have a point, but not because we agree with their position that the State should retain...
Extraordinary. Two and a half decades after the collapse of the Left and of what was perceived as such (the Soviet Union), socialism has been revived in the heartland of its archrival, the United States of America. Extraordinary, but not illogical....
I miss holding stuff. I really do. I grew up in a house with lots of music. My father owned a formidable record collection, and I was exposed to many different genres - classical, jazz, rhythm and blues, calypso, reggae, ska, rocksteady. You name...
Every one of us tells a lie from time to time. It may not be a big lie, but we all do little fibs to avoid unpleasantness.Scientists believe that our ability to lie well has enhanced the development of our intelligence. They say that when someone...
Fifty-four years ago, a bold symbol emerged that was imbued with the spirit of a new nation. This magical fabric flew proudly for the first time in the night breeze above the National Stadium, shining in black, green and gold, and signalling a...
Two months ago, as British Labour Party MPs prepared themselves for the mutiny against their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Neil Kinnock stood in a meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party and gave a shredding speech as to why Mr Corbyn had to go. He made...
