In the wake of the horrific Orlando shooting, a rhetorical grenade also exploded in the Jamaican Twittersphere. The drama began on the premises of the US Embassy in Kingston, where Old Glory had been lowered to half mast with a rainbow flag, the...
Marlene Malahoo Forte no ready fi prime time. Look how shi draw down scandal pon Jamaica wid her fool-fool tweet gainst di American embassy rainbow flag! Look how much bad name Jamaica have! Dem have it fi seh wi a di worst...
There are a number of events set to occur in the near future, none more important in the short term than the UK's vote on its future with the European Union set for next Thursday, June 23. We face this unknown because we have a history of more than...
In the event that people don't know, or have forgotten, the West Kingston events of May 2010, on which a commission of enquiry report was issued last week, had a long gestation period.It was after nine months of attempting to contort its way out of...
The 20th century was, arguably, the first century in human history that a call for men to arise was necessary and rang with urgency because the 20th century was the first century in human history that men had not been clearly seen as leaders in...
The first banks I knew were in the family's 'rice land', where my father and other members of our extended family first built small clay or dirt walls, basically banks, to create little dams or water-catchment areas.Later, in the rainy season, we...
Take steps to dismantle garrisons. That is one of the precise recommendations of the recently concluded West Kingston commission of enquiry.Nothing new here, however, because this call has been made repeatedly in the past 25 years by persons who...
A new tide of subjectivism is sweeping the world and has begun to lap Jamaica's shores. It must be resisted.In this way of thinking, nothing is absolute, and...
Up to a few days ago, I was among those Jamaicans who were prepared to give national coach Winfried Schäfer a pass. Truthfully, his tenure in Jamaica hasn't been all bad. Under his watch, we won the Caribbean Cup a couple of years ago.It may seem...
Travelling to the USA last week to help boost the cause of partnership between Jamaicans living abroad and their homeland has exposed me to two memorable trends.First is the extraordinary zeal and yearning for Jamaica by so many of those who have...
Anyone who, during the proceedings, either doubted the competence and/or attempted to denigrate the integrity of the commissioners probing the conduct of the 2010 west Kingston security operation to arrest the Tivoli Gardens crime boss, Christopher...
This past weekend, I was reminded of the fact that, despite much progress worldwide - even in our own country - for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, much work remains to be done to secure rights for everyone,...
Recently at the Boulevard Baptist Church, I preached a sermon in which I claimed that the biblical concept of one flesh implies that each person in a marriage cannot speak about 'my money' but instead the couple should speak about 'our money'. I...
Our suspicion is that Marlene Malahoo Forte was enticed, and ultimately the victim of what, for the modern politician, can be two very seductive lures. One of is the pull of populism. The other is the power of myriad social-media platforms, with...
The last week's articles, letters and commentaries about language education in Jamaica are testament to the passion we have for this aspect of our identity and our awareness of the role of language and its opportunities in the global society. For me...
Since the prime minister's latest pronouncements on "seriously" considering Spanish as the official second language of Jamaica, I have been engaged in numerous discussions on social media. To my dismay, people are absolutely clueless about the...
Ever since I started living in Jamaica in 1988, I've wanted to visit Haiti, but every time I expressed this desire, friends who know the country would say it's a little volatile there right now, wait till things get better. And, of course, they...
It is urgent that the Ministry of Finance, and more important, its senior minister, Audley Shaw, clarify this matter of the application of the special consumption tax (SCT) to the electricity sector lest it be accused of policy flip-flop or breeding...
"If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore," said Donald Trump after the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning, and The Donald never exaggerates.The United States is a very...
After high school, Gene Autry and I turned to bridge. We played weekly rubber-bridge at rotating homes of bridge-playing friends, most of whom were decades older than we. In addiction-speak, bridge is to golf as cocaine is to caffeine, so it wasn't...
Not just Christianity, but, seemingly, all religions, have taken particular interest in policing what goes on in people's bedrooms. I find it morbidly perverse. In my eyes, it's a pseudo threesome of the people poking and their spiritual leaders.Why...
It used to be the argument of Jamaica's tourism interests and policymakers that soldiers patrolling the streets of the island's resort towns would be damaging to the industry. The presence of the military, they felt, would detract from the image of...
Rape culture refers to a situation in which society blames victims of sexual assault and normalises male sexual violence. This creates an environment in which misogynistic and chauvinistic attitudes thrive, and sexual violence against women is...
They say what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Sounds great in theory, but in Jamaica, that's farcical.The perspicacious TVJ exposé, 18 Degrees North, mainly scrutinised the prime minister's real estate holdings. Although what I saw came...
On many mornings during my ritual trod through the hills, I take a passing interest in a weathered sign on a post along the trail. It belongs to one of the losing candidates in the recently concluded general election and ends with a slogan that has...
