Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM
THE FOREIGN, Common-wealth and Development Secretary of the United Kingdom (UK), Hon David Lammy, made his first official visit to the Caribbean from December 12-13. Specifically, he visited Barbados and Guyana. David Lammy’s parents migrated to...
Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 12:05 AM
As the holiday season approaches, it’s natural for many to embrace the joys of gatherings, good food, and celebratory drinks, especially in our Jamaican culture. Yet, amid the festive indulgence, maintaining balance is crucial for both your...
Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping was invited to attend the 31st APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Peru and the 19th G20 Summit in Brazil. This was President Xi’s first trip to Latin America after the 20th National Congress of the Communist...
Anna-Shay Campbell should be at home with her baby today. But she is not because she is no longer with us. I first heard the news on Friday when I was at my office. A journalist contacted me to hear my opinion on Anna-Shay’s case, but I was unaware...
What was in many ways a profound development passed last week with little comment and even less notice of its significance. After 11 years, the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) issued its financial communiqué, while its chairman, Keith...
‘Tis the season for celebration and good cheer! It’s common for many of us to get carried away throughout the festivities by indulging at home more than we might at other times. But overindulging in the feasts and parties that mark the season can...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic fantasy; it’s here, and it’s evolving at a breakneck pace. We see it in the self-driving cars navigating our roads with increasing precision, in the humanoid robots like Ameca engaging in...
EARTHDAY.ORG launched an initiative urging businesses to support climate education as a key driver for the green economy. This effort, backed up by a new report from LinkedIn titled 2024 Global Green Skills Report, underscores the urgent need for...
Public procurement is government’s activity of acquiring goods, works and services from economic operators or suppliers to enable government’s delivery of its mandates. It is far more than mere transactional purchasing. Transactional purchasing is...
As Elijah passed the mantle of prophesy to Elisha, so leadership of Caribbean political philosophy has passed from Michael Manley to Mia Mottley. Applying Michael’s book The Politics of Change to the dramatically altered context of current...
According to the tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett, Jamaican small farmers will sell about J$500 million worth of their produce to the island’s hotels, via a trading platform called ALEX – Agri Linkages Exchange. It will be less than last year,...
One thing developing countries, including Jamaica, are clear on after last month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, is that there won’t be a lot of money sloshing around to help them adjust to the ravages of global warming. They left Baku,...
Last week’s seizure of illegal firearms was one of the largest in Jamaica in 2024. It may have gone unnoticed, but such finds by the security forces are become more frequent, which underscores our enhanced capacity for detection but also the...
Early in the second quarter of 2022, I received the first trade numbers from STATIN, about three months after my arrival at the Ministry of Industry Investment and Commerce (MIIC). In 2021, Jamaica imported over US$5.9 billion and exported only...
The public has divided views regarding the live broadcast by four suspects who were attempting to prevent the police from ending their lives in Spalding. A scene straight from out of a movie, these men allegedly part of a group of robbers, found...
Someone that I know is diabetic … it even landed him in the hospital several years ago. He recently stepped on a rusty nail. It penetrated his footwear and went into the sole of his foot. He ‘watched it’ for two weeks. His foot became swollen,...
Significant weapons and ammunition seizures at the island’s ports in recent days suggest that the criminal underworld is escalating efforts to acquire more firepower, in an environment where more than 1,000 people have already been killed by the...
The government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has steadfast support from many friends in the Caribbean and other parts of the world, despite numerous allegations of violations of international law, aggressive acts toward its neighbour Guyana, and...
My son went to Oxford on a scholarship and I used to joke about my own earlier visit there. I had gone for a meeting and was reading the dictionary in bed one night. But I didn’t finish. I got up to ‘P’. Then there was this thing with their special...
Perhaps for decades now, Jamaicans have been debating issues relating to the country’s governance structure and its ties to the British monarchy. At face value, many Jamaicans want the country to cut its ties with Britain and become a republic....
Over the years, I have been quite critical of the legislation enacted by Jamaican legislators to detect, charge and prosecute the same Jamaican legislators for corruption, including illicit enrichment. It seems to me that they have created a...
Jamaica hasn’t revealed if it, too, has been approached by Donald Trump’s transition team to warehouse immigrants deported from the United States after Mr Trump assumes office next year. It is, nonetheless, clear that this is an issue on which the...
The intention by Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to next year spend J$17 billion to strengthen its electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure is a good thing. It should mean that the next time the island faces a storm, utility...
IT BECOMES more and more difficult each day to make sense of the violence that has taken over the world or when we will see a return to peace. Many concerns are expressed, but there is little or no indication of an end to senseless extremism...
LAST MONDAY’S celebration of International Anti-Corruption Day, themed ‘Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow’s Integrity’, found us at a crossroads. While Jamaica has commendably bolstered its anti-corruption agencies and...
