Having been following the discussions on the decision by the University of the West Indies (UWI) to terminate the contract of Professor Brendan Bain, it would appear that a central element has been lost in the heat of debate.
Like a government bureaucrat, Valerie Veira is quick to haul out the defensive rampart, as was the case this week at a forum hosted by this newspaper.In the event, she reinforced the need for special and specific attention - with someone being held...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) has fired Professor Brendan Bain, one of the leading experts in the world in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS, as the director of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network.
The sacking of Prof Brendan Bain illustrates the intimidating power of the gay-rights lobby, as well as external sources of funding on which we have to rely...
Recently, Newton Dixon of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and I were invited to share with TVJ's morning programme, 'Smile Jamaica', on the issue of whether Christians could carry guns...
We are saddened that it had to reach to this: a public brawl and equally public sacking by the University of the West Indies of Professor Brendan Bain as director of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network...
The statistics paint a really bad picture. More than 70 per cent of homeless adults are male. Men die earlier than women. From around grade 10, girls begin to pull away from boys in terms of educational performance...
It remains this newspaper's position that the laws in Jamaica, and elsewhere in the Caribbean, that criminalise male homosexuality - and anal intercourse generally - are anachronisms that legitimise voyeurism by the State...
As an institution, marriage is on the rocks. People are marrying less, and later in life, in both the developed and developing world. One in nine Jamaican unions now ends in divorce, twice as many as 40 years ago....
This is an open letter to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.The dismissal of Professor Brendan Bain as the director of Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Centre is a matter of grave concern.The University of the West Indies has, in its...
Allow me to commend the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the board of the Caribbean HIV and AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Centre for its principled and decisive action in the matter involving Professor Brendan Bain...
Freedom of expression took a severe body blow yesterday when the University of the West Indies sacked Brendan Bain.Professor Bain's crime? His expert affidavit was used in a high-profile case in Belize brought by Caleb Orozco...
There seems to be some sort of confusion about the right to speech and freedom of conscience, especially where issues of gay rights, abortion and other so-called sensitive issues are concerned.Learned people - including lawyers, academics and medical...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) official recently offered the Jamaican Government a useful perspective from which to approach its lagging tax-collection initiative.Think of it, he suggested, as part of the administration's social-policy agenda.
Why have these 35 advocacy groups taken this adversarial position against Professor Brendan Bain, one of the Caribbean's foremost clinical infectious-diseases practitioners? The report he submitted to the Belize Supreme Court...
Didn't it warm the cockles of your hearts to see how swiftly all MPs leapt to the defence of electricity thieves everywhere?In a show of unified constituency representation of a quality not seen since Dudus resided here, MPs queued up to hold hands ...
In response to the recent temporary closure of some schools because of a water crisis, the Rev Ronald Thwaites declared that we mandatorily have to devise strategies to mitigate against this dilemma...
Rituals are a part of life. Some are practical and may impact positively on one's health, safety and well-being. For example, surgeons washing their hands prior to surgery, putting on seat belts...
Recent happenings within Jamaica have revealed a great deal about the nation and what drives decision making at many levels. Oftentimes, we say that the nation cannot do this or cannot afford to do that, but look at what has happened recently....
Last month, as Peter Phillips faced a public revolt against his proposed bank transaction tax to raise a mere J$2.25 billion, a noticeable absence from his projected inflows were earnings from privatisation. Nor was there any such projection...
Let me put it on record from the outset that I do not have a degree. Subsequent to reading this, I know some of my relatives and friends who do have degrees will, as we say in Jamaica, 'have mi off'.
