A mystical conspiracy took me to the Far East for a few days last week. No, I wasn't there for the labour party currently being hosted by the Chinese government. Mine was a far less diplomatic mission. But much like some of my contemporaries, I...
I used to own a Toyota Hiace Grand Cabin (family) minibus. I had just got home from the airport with my relatives, offloaded everyone and their luggage, when the right front tyre exploded while the empty vehicle stood parked in the driveway. I...
More than anything else, what Christopher Tufton is getting right, up to now, is tone. Plus, he is seeing no need to reinvent the wheel when he knows he is unlikely to improve upon the design.So, while there has been some expansion of projects -...
Black Jamaicans have a long history of being thwarted in their attempts at self-exploration and development.They have always lived with high levels of identity uncertainty given that their selves were defined as commodities in the service of global...
This hurricane season has begun with the strengthening of a weather system that has some ominous clouds. We’ve all been watching it for a while. All this in a week when many in the media seem to have agreed to sit with the prime minister for...
A commercial for a Chinese laundry detergent has been making the rounds on social media and in legacy newspapers. It reminds me of Chris Gayle's unfortunate flirtation on TV with that Australian female journalist Mel McLaughlin. Sexual advances on...
If kinetic meant substance, Desmond McKenzie might have been a great mayor of Kingston. At a blurry, vertigo-inducing frenzy, he, for nine years, went about little.Not that his recent predecessors or successors at the Kingston and St Andrew...
It has been little over a year since the much-anticipated amendments to the Dangerous Drugs Act were passed into law in April 2015 with much attendant fanfare.It is fair comment that a year is a relatively short period to critique and/or proffer any...
Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Wright
Muhammad Ali so perfected sporting showmanship that he turned boxing matches into sideshows and himself into the main event.Ali's entertainment value was comparable to none. Not Floyd Mayweather's narcissism at the altar of bling. Not cock-of-the-...
A famous surgeon went on a safari in Africa. When he came back, his colleagues asked him how it had been. "Oh, it was very disappointing," he said. "I didn't kill a thing. I'd have been better off staying here in the hospital."During my days as the...
The manner in which persons, including women and children, are being murdered and abused in Jamaica sends the unmistakable signal that we are no longer the caring and compassionate society of bygone days.In case we needed a reminder of the new level...
Brexit: What if?After months in which opinion polls showed a six to 10 per cent lead for the 'Remain' side in the referendum campaign on continued British membership of the European Union (EU), the numbers have suddenly shifted in favour of 'Leave...
The alleged shenanigans now under investigation at the Hanover Parish Council are the kinds of scenarios that contributed to the perception of survey respondents that all government...
Peter Bunting has made no secret of his ambition to lead the People's National Party (PNP) and his willingness, if she is deemed to be overstaying her time, of challenging the incumbent president, Portia Simpson Miller.In the meantime,...
The latest statistics show that there has been an increase in the number of persons killed in vehicular crashes since the start of the year compared to the same period last year. Road fatalities have been on the decline since...
News broke some time on Wednesday night that one Jamaican has been tested positive, retroactively, having participated in the 2008 Olympics. Up to press time last night, no official announcement was yet made. The usual precautions about waiting on...
As a member of the diaspora who has lived outside of Jamaica since 1979 but who is in tune with to the goings-on in the country, I note with interest Michael Lee-Chin's so-called "summons" to expatriates to invest here and his intention to take his...
We have been pussyfooting with the development of our children and youth for too long. Every year, the government, private sector and civil society invest billions of dollars in programmes and initiatives geared towards improving the development and...
On Monday, the National Library, under the leadership of Mrs Hudson, mounted an exhibition to mark the outstanding contribution of the late Archbishop Enos Nuttall (1842-1916) as a churchman and nation builder. This year marks the centenary of his...
The Develop Jamaica Initiative (DJI) was first presented by me to the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston in November 2004, and has since been presented to nearly every administration leading Jamaica's political life. All have rejected its use as a...
K. D. Knight should have gone one step further. He ought to have insisted that Dirk Harrison, the contractor general, investigate the 2013 sale by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) - while he was the agency's chairman - of the Oceana building...
My uncle is an exceptionally good lawyer. I'm tempted to say that despite him being old, red and fat, he's still one of the very best abogados in the country.But the last time I wrote about looks and its relationship to professional excellence, I...
I remember in 2011 when Ras Astor Black built his political campaign around the development of a marijuana industry. His exact words to me in an interview ring clear:"Every country around us have what we have: sun sea and sand. In fact, walk past a...
It's that time every other year when those of us who like to read, head down to Treasure Beach for the Calabash Literary Festival. Since it started in 2001, Calabash has exposed Jamaicans to some of the top writers in the world and also given the...
We have noted, and appreciate, Prime Minister Andrew Holness' proposal to tap "the reservoir of talents" at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) for membership to the boards of state agencies to help, as he puts it, in the efficient implementation of...
