In Focus

Most Jamaicans would have been aware that the new National Building Code is soon to become law under what will be referred to as the Building Act 2016. There are indications that all is not well on some fundamental issues.At the centre of the strong...

In Part 1 of this series, I explored what I regard as the issues facing the Moravian Church. I argued, in the February 5, 2017, In Focus publication, that the current crisis wherein some ministers have been charged for alleged sexual misconduct...

"May as well dem give har it," said Fedo to me. We are at a spot way north of Papine and the discussion was mostly about crime, the police, and the way forward for the leadership of the JCF."Why do you believe it is the best thing for Jamaica to...

I have turned down opportunities to host radio talk shows. I would be a marketing disaster. Few people would be interested in listening to me in this tribalised society. I am not hysterical, sensationalist, hardline, doomsday, andbelligerent.I am...

Last Wednesday, a middle-age-to-senior citizen-sounding man called me on radio and was up in arms with the Government and the police over the focus on the recent hoopla regarding ‘rusty-back’ men having sex with children, when in his...

Figurative fingernails having been pulled from the cliff's edge of party leadership to which they'd been clinging, Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller finally agreed to plunge into the unknown waters of retirement on April 2.Like many of her crucial...

It had to come to this: a revulsion and backlash against fake news and 'alternative facts', which had for long inundated social media and the Internet, masquerading as liberation from 'controlled news sources' by the elite.The rise of 'citizen...

There’s a new army in Jamaica, and they are recruiting. This is not an army that fights with guns and M16s  – though they are militant about their cause. The tools of this army: knowledge, passion, determination, smarts, love. The...

Every proposal to have the Jamaican language function as a formal language of education alongside English in a fully bilingual education system is met by the clearly irrelevant point that 'English is the global language'.Every UNESCO research paper...

"At least a quarter of our population live on captured land, almost one-third of the population steal their electricity, while almost two-thirds of the water supplied by the National Water Commission is lost or stolen, which means many children are...

During the 1970s, Jamaica completed the mental decolonisation process, having legally cut the umbilical cord in 1962.Starting circa 1981, when the first satellite dish was introduced, Jamaica began genuflecting to a new colonial master, namely the...

It was another wild week in Trumpland America, with presidential executive orders and pronouncements that brought many to the streets in angry protests over what was seen as the betrayal of long-held and sacrosanct American values.Around the world,...