All right, all right, first things first: Relax, Donald Trump won't be president. His surge to first place in Republican primary polls probably reveals little more than the well-documented phenomenon American political scientists call the 'discovery...
Last Tuesday, I went to a community meeting at Caledonia Crossing in the Cockpit Country, between Endeavour-Gibraltar and Bryan Castle-Madras in western St Ann. The purpose of the community meeting was to protest new bauxite mining about to take...
Wednesday's semi-final win by the Reggae Boyz over the USA is now a matter of history. It's paradoxical to say that it was an upset, yet not entirely unexpected. The Reggae Boyz have never beaten the USA on their own soil before. We have never been...
The rescheduling of local government elections to December 2016 provides a good opportunity for legislators to embark on reforming Jamaica's electoral system, to hold those and general elections together when the term of the incumbent expires.Unless...
Yesterday, the funeral for the mild-mannered Solomon Goode was held at the Calvary Baptist Church, St James, where I saw him last in May at the funeral for Rev. C. S. Reid. Goode was my predecessor as pastor at Fletcher's Grove Baptist, Hanover, and...
Social problems like homophobia and transphobia are so much more complex than many of us are willing to accept. Some of us conveniently ignore what people, especially those from vulnerable and marginalised groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
Judging by the prima facie evidence, Carl Williams, the police chief, may be right about members of the constabulary, especially those working in western Kingston, being under a systematic assault from criminals. If that is the case, the fight is...
I ended my August 21, 2011 article in The Sunday Gleaner titled 'IMF stalemate' thus: "These are Jamaica's challenges as the Government and the IMF go through the last stages of a very unsteady waltz, or, more accurately, enter the first stage of a...
The United States and Jamaica have worked together for decades to combat criminality that affects both our nations, from drug and gun trafficking to organised crime, money laundering and lottery scams.Our partnership with Jamaica works at the...
There continue to be distressing signs on the political radar that the very notion of democracy in both of Jamaica's major political parties is under threat.Intrinsically inalienable rights of persons to elect party representatives of their choice...
Carl Williams' announced tactic of increasing to 80 per cent the proportion of his police personnel on operational duty, in an effort to staunch this year's surge in homicides, is not to be argued with. Having more police personnel on the ground...
No prizes for guessing where I was all weekend. Thursday from the sound check at 7:30 p.m., all the way to 6:30 a.m. on Sunday after the last note was sung, I was at Sumfest.It's an event I've been going to for a decade and this praise is long...
A recent United States Supreme Court judgment confirming gay marriage's legitimacy seems to have put the wind up local homophobes.Booklist Boyne, slithering around, panic-stricken, in a shipload of religious dogma, spent two consecutive Sundays...
We have been surprised by the seeming absence of urgency, or serious application, with which Jamaica and its partners in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have responded to important foreign political and economy policy shifts by the Obama...
Published:Monday | July 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMSergey Taraso
I would like to offer in a brief form some information on recent important events on the international agenda, about which little has been written so far in the local and regional press, but which could have essential impact upon world politics and...
Serena Jameka Williams is one hell of a woman. Her list of ongoing achievements is mind-boggling. She is currently ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis, achieving this status on six separate occasions over a 13-year period. She is also the...
As I have mentioned in many articles, the things that are now happening globally and locally, particularly with regard to economics, crime and other social areas, cannot be solved on a natural level. There needs to be spiritual insight and vision....
It has not been easy for statist ideologues, but Jamaica has, in recent years, made good strides in transforming itself into an economy where firms compete and their survival depends on efficiency and enterprise, rather than the fiat of bureaucrats...
Our weather forecasters had predicted an inordinately long and uninterrupted dry spell ahead of us. The oppressive heat and drought made me believe the meteorologist's predictions.So, when I heard the rumbling of thunder week before last and saw...
The Kingston Metropolitan Area's (KMA) present water woes may get worse for two reasons. First, it is predicted that climate change will result in the island's wet season becoming shorter and its dry season much longer. And second, the urban...
The People's National Party (PNP) is a few months shy of celebrating its 77th anniversary. As a national movement that has made significant contribution to Jamaica's development, we have a body of traditions and rules - some of which are documented...
This is the second excerpt of an address by Owen Arthur, former prime minister of Barbados, to a social partnership retreat in Jamaica last week. Based on the Barbados experience, I would suggest that the following principles should apply to make...
National Security Minister Peter Bunting is trying hard to make himself a corruption of his middle name, Murcott. The minister, despite his public-relation strategy of Unite for Change, made a calculated attack on his main opponent, Derrick Smith,...
If Andrew Holness hopes to be the leader who takes Jamaica ‘from poverty to prosperity’, as his new mantra proclaims, he should heed Prime Minister Simpson Miller’s rejection of his proposal to appoint a special minister to drive...
I saw the pictures and it was definitely a "WOW! This is the guy who says the economy isn't going well?" But anyway, stop bad-mind Andrew fi him house! When people work hard and earn dem money, they're entitled to do with it as they please. People...
