Few issues are more contentious than abortion. There are many rational arguments for and against it, and these are expressed stridently by passionate advocates on either side of the divide, with views being influenced by socialisation, experience,...
Imagine a city where buildings breathe like plants, streets flow like rivers, and neighborhoods grow like forests. In contrast to the rigid, concrete jungles that dominate urban landscapes today, some cities are beginning to embrace designs...
Trade policy tensions are escalating fast. In recent months, several large economies have announced or implemented sweeping new tariffs, reviving a policy tool that many thought to have been largely relegated to the past. These developments have...
“Curiouser and curiouser,” thought Alice for the umpteenth time as she landed gently at the bottom of the rabbit hole and found herself once more in Wonderland. She got to her feet and was quickly made to feel at home by the zany cast of simple,...
Jamaica prides itself on resilience, cultural identity, and an unwavering sense of self. Our people often boast that we are not easily impressed, “wi nuh frighten so easy”, “wi nuh frighten ova people” or “wi nuh frighten”. Yet, the recent contrast...
Jamaica’s housing crisis has deep roots in historical land injustices that excluded freedmen and favoured elites and foreign investors like the United Fruit Company in the 1890s and Spring Plains in the 1980s. These policies fuelled rural-urban...
What positive outcome for humanity can come from the self-described government by “gut feeling” displayed last week in America? How much richer or greater is The United States now that 100 nations are lining up to “kiss my (his) a**” to secure...
It is not enough for the Police Civilian Oversight Authority (PCOA) to merely agree that the police’s use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) would help to provide “objective evidence” when cops are involved in disputed situations, then wait quietly, and...
Prime Minister Holness’ recent commentary in The Sunday Gleaner on April 6 attempts to rewrite Jamaica’s economic history with selective statistics and partisan framing. While I welcome public debate on the country’s economic performance, it must...
The brewing contention between the People’s National Party (PNP) and the mayor of Montego Bay over the alleged removal of the party’s election advertising from the city again revives questions about the practicality of the political ombudsman in...
Donald Trump’s opening gambit in his 2025 global tariff policy is a textbook case of how not to negotiate. It exposes the difference between reality TV, his speciality, and real-life negotiation. This is President Trump’s second time using tariffs...
When politicians disagree about something and then agree, but disagree about the very things that they themselves had asserted in the beginning, clearly it is very likely to be something good June marks 50 years since the Labour Relations and...
Here it comes in the rearview, “IXAT” closing fast, but that’s nothing new. And when it flies past it’s clear to see it is actually “TAXI”, dissing you and dissing me. The taxis overtake everyone no matter what, they don’t care what happens, and...
While Jamaica ought not to deliberately jump into the middle of the tariff war Donald Trump unleashed on the rest of the world, Aubyn Hill would be advised to be circumspect about celebrating gains from collateral damage caused by the conflict....
On April 9, US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day suspension of the higher global tariffs imposed on April 3. This suspension spares only the baseline 10 per cent tariff on imports – levied without exception on all countries, including the...
On April 28, two weeks and two days from now, Trinidad and Tobago will hold a general election. Soon after that, several other CARICOM countries will do the same – Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines. The big question in all...
In this column I have been critical of the inordinate delays in completing the section of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP) running from Harbour View to the bridge over the Yallahs River, which is now much more than FOUR...
Begging is a learned behaviour. Unfortunately, many parents insist on teaching it to their young children. Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see young children – girls and boys alike – approaching vehicles in traffic or at busy intersections, begging...
It would have been a confidence-shattering blow if the elections monitoring group, Citizens Action for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE), was fearful that it mightn’t raise the money for its observation of Jamaica’s imminent general election. If...
The traditional narrative of P.J. Patterson’s contribution to Jamaica’s development focuses almost exclusively on the major projects conceived and implemented during his tenure, first as Cabinet minister and later as prime minister. What remains...
Jamaica’s Police Civilian Oversight Authority (PCOA) hasn’t said what, if anything, will be its concrete next step after the forum it hosted last week on police accountability and oversight in honour of one of its former chairmen, the late Oliver...
OZEMPIC. IT’S all the rage right now. Not just in Miami and New York, but right here in ho-hum Jamaica. Once a quiet little diabetes drug, Ozempic has become the go-to miracle shot for weight loss, appetite control, and apparently, red-carpet and...
HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to all the schools and students that competed this year and particularly Kingston College and Hydel High School for being crowned the Boys and Girls Champions, respectively. The contest was exciting, dramatic as well as...
When policymakers and the captains of Jamaica’s business process outsourcing (BPO) companies hold their annual conference later this week, it will be in an environment vastly different from what they are likely to have imagined. Donald Trump,...
INCREASED PREVALENCE RATES Approximately one in five students struggles with dyslexia, yet many misconceptions persist. Dyslexia is a subtype of neurodivergence that has shown increased prevalence rates over the last decade. According to the...
