Political debates are usually boring events, but in the few times they are not, the main features take the form of words balled up like a fist and designed to take a bigger message than just the obvious.I am not so sure that politicians would prefer...
For decades now, I've been a lone voice calling for the divestment of horse racing to the private sector.My calls were greeted with howls of derision by 'experts' (or 'ex-perches' who acted like railbirds interested only in betting) who said nobody...
"Violence increasingly mutates and spreads; and increases in criminal presence and violent crime reduce economic diversification, increase sector concentration, and diminish economic complexity."- Viridiana RiosIt is exciting that we have private...
It is not enough to say that Donald Trump's victory is a 'whitelash' against eight years of a black man's being in the White House. It is, indeed, true that Trump's ascendancy as American president-elect is the culmination of the Tea Party...
What happened in North America makes the homophones 'in continent' and 'incontinent' synonyms as well. As we collectively pinch ourselves to arise from the never-ending dream that Donald Trump, Mr Hair Force One, orange-faced like the Halloween...
Sometimes, I'm too cute by half. So, I outwitted myself on November 8 when, despite months of steadfastly advising readers that Trump would be the next president (including during and after Pu**ygate), I wilted under unbearable pressure from teeming...
Two decades ago, as I was finishing my postdoctoral fellowship in development studies, I left Oxford to move to Jamaica. When colleagues asked me why on earth I was leaving a global knowledge epicentre for the 'provinces', I replied that I didn't...
Tomorrow morning, we are opening up at the Pegasus a major National Science and Technology Conference spearheaded by the Scientific Research Council (SRC) as part of S...
Voters in the American presidential election of November 8 were trumped by the billionaire, Donald Trump.The election featured an almost ceaseless stream of vile accusations on both sides, accusing Trump of massive tax avoidance over two decades and...
Published:Friday | November 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMGarfield Angus
Although women were first granted the right to vote in the United States, via the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution, on August 18, 1920, and widely called 'women suffrage', the big parties, before 2016, have always ignored...
In September 2003, John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death in the United States of America for 17 murders committed in a number of states over a 10-month period in 2002. Without a whimper from the international human-rights lobbyists, he was...
You may think that this is a recanting of my position last week regarding the acquittal of American citizen Patrick Powell of the murder of Khajeel Mais or any other comment I have made about the homicide and guns in this country.After all, here we...
The thought of a facile Clinton victory has been thrown out the window as what had virtually been a certainty (Hillary winning bigly) has been turned on its head with one letter from the FBI to Congress that concluded:"Although the FBI cannot yet...
Super Tuesday for the whole world is only a couple of days away.By law, the Tuesday following the first Monday in November is election day, which can fall anywhere between the 2nd and the 8th. Inauguration day for the newly elected president since...
In the interest of truth, I am compelled to respond to a report in The Gleaner dated November 4, 2016 in a series, 'Fixing UTech', titled' 60 courses at UTech not accredited'.I refer to the 2009-2010 annual report of the University Council of Jamaica...
"We must deal with the root causes of crime and violence. Then the cycle will be broken and we will not be doomed to repeat it by burying so many innocent persons and perpetuating the moral panic."- Dr Carl Williams In this second of a two-part...
My sincere attempt at a deep breath quickly turned into a sigh as I contemplated the next four weeks.It's too depressing for words. For the next four weeks (give or take), Jamaica will be manipulated by greedy politicians into participating in a...
"Laws are like spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them, they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape." Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Solon, 3rd Century ADEvents over the past week were dominated by what has...
World Day for Decent Work was October 7. Of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs), goal number 8 calls for the promotion of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all. Why is all this relevant...
It's nice to see the show of public support for silver-agers remaining at work. I am now one. And didn't even know that the term 'silver-ager' existed before I read Andre Poyser's article, 'Silver-agers irreplaceable in economy'. Not that I'd mind...
It is well documented in communication studies that fearmongering is an art used by political propagandists in campaigns. It is a strategy used to create fear and doubt in the minds of citizens on issues.In Jamaica, this tactic has been used on...
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Donald J. Trump's record is not that good, but he does get it right once in a while. He got it right last Tuesday when he said that Hillary Clinton would be dangerously aggressive in Syria if she wins the...
Since the dismantling of the transnational organised crime networks based at Tivoli Gardens in 2014, scamming in all its forms has replaced the illicit trade in hard drugs as the major component of the criminal underground economy. In this new...
The other day, as I was exiting a pharmacy with two of my daughters, a little girl no older than about five years old partially stepped out behind us and discarded her disposable juice bottle and bottle cover on the pavement in front of the pharmacy...
General secretary-designate of the People's National Party (PNP), Julian Robinson, made the following statement in The Sunday Gleaner, October 16, 2016: "We are a democratic socialist party, and within the context of, in 2016, being in an...
