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Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Dedicated to the people of the Caribbean who are joining the forces to make their families, homes and countries safe for all. Jerry Seinfeld, the American stand-up comedian and actor, made the point, “I read a report about an earthquake where...

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 12:12 AM

In the almost 32 years I have been writing this weekly column (since February 1993) I have commented through seven general elections (the one due this year will be my eighth); the People’s National Party (PNP) won four and the Jamaica Labour Party...

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 12:12 AM

Recently I came across a social media post in which a woman shared an experience she had many years ago as a university student in an ‘Introduction to Psychology’ class. She said it was the last class before final exams and at some point during...

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 9:59 AM

It is not clear how often a boy and girl below the age of 16 are brought before the courts for engaging in “consensual” sex with each other. That data, if collated, isn’t readily available, not even, it appears, to the children’s advocate, Diahann...

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

TALENT AND training alone are not enough to maintain Jamaica’s sports legacy. There is a need for legislative framework, high-quality healthcare, and effective administrative structures to ensure continued success. But do we prioritise our athletes...

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ONE OF the nagging thoughts, real or imagined, among the cybersecurity and law enforcement community, is that the authorities are always one step behind cybercriminals who are seemingly always on the cutting edge of new and inventive ways to...

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:08 AM

With Donald Trump imminent occupancy of the White House, these are likely to be fraught times for developing countries. Jamaica is one of those. During his first go at the US presidency, Mr Trump made clear his disdain for such countries,...

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:07 AM

ACCORDING TO the police, they have more than 30,000 warrants for the arrest of motorists who have not paid traffic fines and failed to turn up in court to dispute the tickets. Roughly, these warrants account for three per cent of the traffic...

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:06 AM

JAMES EARL Carter Jr, popularly known as Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from Plains, Georgia, was the 39th president of the USA (1977-1981). He served one term as president and was the longest-living former US president, dying on December 29, 2024 at age...

Published:Wednesday | January 8, 2025 | 12:05 AM

MOST PEOPLE spend all the working days of their lives doing eight or more hours a day or through the night. Some, because of the nature of their jobs, belong to the essential services, and for considerable portions of their lives, work far more...

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 12:11 AM

In December 2024, the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic concluded its two-year investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic. It released a final report titled After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path...

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 12:10 AM

The recent suggestion by the prime minister (PM) to review the National Works Agency’s (NWA) functions has sparked discussion among engineers, particularly in context of the recently launched Shared Prosperity Through Accelerated Improvement to our...

Published:Tuesday | January 7, 2025 | 12:10 AM

In analysing last year’s 14 per cent decline in major crimes, including a 19 per cent drop, Kevin Blake, the police chief, attributed some of the gains to the launch of a new “beat officer patrol division”, which has brought “a new sense of...

Published:Monday | January 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

With the ever-growing human population, diversity, including neurodiversity, has become more prevalent. In 2011, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Report on Disability estimated that about 15 per cent of the world’s population lived with...

Published:Monday | January 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

An alien looking in over Jamaica this holiday season could reasonably describe us as a “ party” nation. People travel across the world and pay huge dollars to enjoy our public festivities. We want the world to rate us as the bashment capital of...

Published:Monday | January 6, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Last year’s reported 19-per-cent reduction in murders, meaning that 265 fewer people were intentionally killed in Jamaica than in 2023, are important statistics which the vast majority of the island’s citizens will, unquestionably, be happy...

Published:Sunday | January 5, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Another year of decline in deliveries at Kingston’s Victoria Jubilee Maternity Hospital suggests a continuation of Jamaica’s trend of declining birth rates, which holds potentially significant implications for the island. Not least of which is...

Published:Sunday | January 5, 2025 | 12:10 AM

In The Sunday Gleaner of December 29, 2024, article the question: Fifty years on: Has Caribbean tourism advanced? was raised. Also on the page was the editorial titled, ‘Beyond the hotel strikes’. Reading editorial and the last article, whatever...

Published:Sunday | January 5, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Not the peace concert of 1978; not the national athletics championships, none of the Reggae Boyz’s matches and not even the ISSA High School Athletics Championships. In fact, just from the lights, none of the last two annual conferences of the...

Published:Sunday | January 5, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Every time there are injuries or deaths because of the foolishness that some public transport operators do, I recall way back in about 1999 -2000, when there was a spate of public sector and private sector redundancies, quite a few folks used some...

Published:Sunday | January 5, 2025 | 12:10 AM

We can confidently expect that it is only a matter of time before AI becomes more prevalent in Caribbean courts and justice systems. Caribbean courts have increasingly embraced the use of technological solutions in delivering justice. Virtual...

Published:Saturday | January 4, 2025 | 12:06 AM

It has long been evident that the world’s richest nations, especially those responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, care little about the existential threats faced by small states. For the Caribbean, the time for...

Published:Saturday | January 4, 2025 | 12:06 AM

A dog and a cat were having an argument about who was the favourite with humans. The dog was adamant, “Humans like us more than any other animal. They even named a tooth after us, one they call a “canine”. That alone tells you that naming an...

Published:Saturday | January 4, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Prime Minister Andrew Holness will likely find great sympathy for his idea of possibly expanding the National Works Agency (NWA) or creating a new body, charged with keeping the island’s roads in a better state of repair. “... The crisis that we...

Published:Friday | January 3, 2025 | 12:06 AM

As the incoming chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mia Mottley’s New Year’s message had a familiar ring. CARICOM, the Barbadian prime minister pledged, would pursue its mission of transforming the community into a full-fledged...

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