During Connected Caribbean Summit held in Miami in December 2024 I laid out what I thought were three potential areas for urgent reform in the Caribbean. The first area I argued was desperate for overhaul was the Caribbean’s current approach to...
A century ago, today, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero, woke up in Federal Prison, having served the first day of his sentence after being convicted of mail fraud. On this day in 1990, it was announced that Nelson Mandela was to...
Children of colour, how dare you assume that your chocolate-brown skin is beautiful, and that God blessed your ancestors in ancient Africa, a land that remains so bountiful! Some of your descendants were paled by eons of cold and sparse sunlight...
It is perplexing that, after more than two months of asserting their right to the chairmanship of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC), the People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) councillors appear to be only now seeking legal advice on the matter...
The great calypsonian Trinidadian, the Mighty Popo (Reginald Blondell Alphonse), was the first person to sing about a snake which grabbed on to a thief and “take him, in the bag, and the snake hold him, in the bag”. Fortunately. it was not like...
Recently, the smaller member states of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have renewed complaints that the promised benefits and compensatory mechanisms that convinced them to join first CARIFTA in 1968, and later CARICOM in 1973,...
It must be said that the beauty of dancehall as a genre of music is in the eye of the beholder. Whether you like it or not – or classical music or calypso or soca or Afrobeat or Reggaeton or whatever – is a matter of personal taste. The beat and...
Somewhere in the main corridor, or suspended from the ceiling in the front lobby, or printed on a big banner somewhere in the boardroom, one can almost always find a list of core values embraced by their place of employment. In many cases, ‘...
The world appears to have been caught in a cognitive fog, so appears to have grasped the full implications of Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing proposal for Gazans only after it was repeated in the presence of the Israeli premier, Benjamin Netanyahu...
On Tuesday, Greenland’s parliament, the Inatsisartut, passed a law banning foreign and anonymous financial contributions to the country’s political parties, and lowering the cap on the amount that citizens can give. Under the legislation, a party...
LAST WEEK, I wrote on how we as adults and parents must begin to rethink the future we envision for the next generation, as the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) urgently makes traditional models of success, education, and job security...
EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE grievance policies have been characterised by a predictable set of procedures since Independence, despite new laws and formulas being introduced to improve the way in which such matters are resolved at the workplace. It is still...
Donald Trump’s intention, as The New York Times put it this week, is to “leverage America’s economic strength to bully other nations” to his preferred policy positions. Which is the basis of Mr Trump’s threat – now deferred for a month – to impose...
CHINA’S DEEPSEEK Artificial Intelligence (AI) launch is sending shockwaves throughout global markets and the US is finally starting to notice. This isn’t just another tech breakthrough; it’s a signal to the US that the global leadership in AI might...
IT DOES feel like we have been on a roller coaster since January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the USA. President Trump did state that if he won the elections, he would be about retribution and upheaval. It seems...
Unless they got their data badly twisted, the recent report by a group of UN agencies on food security in Latin America and the Caribbean should give Jamaica pause on any overexuberant celebration of the island’s latest unemployment statistics. In...
Former US President Joe Biden’s granting of a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey was a welcome breath of fresh air for Jamaicans. The timing could not have been better, as it was announced one day before Martin Luther King Day in America, and one...
It has recently come to light that Jamaica’s paternal discrepancy rate is among the highest in the world. Paternal discrepancy refers to a situation in which a child is assigned to a man who is not their biological father. The term is often used...
AI burns through a lot of resources. And thanks to a paradox first identified way back in the 1860s, even a more energy-efficient AI is likely to simply mean more energy is used in the long run. For most users, ‘large language models’ such as...
Two seminal figures in Jamaican and Caribbean education died last week – Roy Augier and Alfred Sangster – leaving legacies that should be marked and perpetuated by their institutions and regional governments. In Professor Augier’s case, the...
The Reggae Girlz are worthy of much congratulations on their double victory over counterparts South Africa in the recent contest in Montego Bay, St James. While Jamaica is ranked higher than South Africa internationally and reports suggest that...
Garfield came from deep Trelawny country, reached “third book” in school and became a loader man on one of those dual-purpose produce and passenger trucks which used to ply between Freeman’s Hall and Kingston. After “getting” two children “from”...
Food, like water, is vital for life. There are no substitutes. Both are sensitive to climate change and global warming and their manifestations such as prolonged droughts, severe floods, strong hurricanes, uncontrollable fires, and heat waves,...
He kept his word. The first of several flights repatriating Jamaican deportees from the United States (US) arrived last week. With around 5,000 Jamaicans tagged for removal; expect more to come. Deportation of non-Americans is nothing new, as the...
