In Focus

Recently, TVJ ran a feature on career choices. The man behind it, Vashan Brown, in his wisdom, or lack of it, insisted on including my input. At this time of year, when GSAT-ers are heading into high schools and portions of the small cohort of high-...

The performance of the Jamaican athletes at the Rio Olympics not only confirmed Jamaica's status as a sprinting superpower, but once again exposed the enormous talent and creativity that reside in the two social classes at the base of Jamaican...

Once again, we won the Bolt gold vote. For me, there was never a moment of doubt. I told him that much at Mona. He has taught me, a historian, how to read the future.This manuscript, then, is more a tribute to the moment - its message and meaning -...

The law is an ass, not a horse, although many 'neighsayers' at Caymanas Park pronounce them as if they were homophones. I don't know how much of a gambler my friend, Shane Dalling, deputy chairman of Caymanas Track Ltd, is, but he may have played a...

I have found the formal ruling by Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn to close the conspiracy-to-murder case against the politician from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party rather curious. In fact, it seems to me that reading the account in...

"With everything perfect, we do not ask how it came to be. We rejoice in the present fact as though it came out of the ground by magic."- philosopher Friedrich NietzscheIt has been more than Boltmania. Even in an age of hyperbole, this has truly...

And so you saw history unfurl, and Betsy Sullivan cringes while feeling a deep feeling of satisfaction that, after 44 years, another Jamaican, is representing the country in Olympic diving. And yet, apparently in a deep romance with ignorance, and...

In the mid-1990s when Internet usage was just moving past the toddler stage in Jamaica, before Facebook and Twitter and prior to our phones becoming smart, I wrote an article for the Sunday Observer titled 'Libel in cyberspace' examining the...

The proposal for a 1,000-megawatt power plant being contemplated for the new owners of bauxite alumina company Alpart is short-sighted and poses danger to residents in the vicinity of the plant. While there will be immediate gains for the owners,...

There was more than a hint of grovelling in Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's approach to his new "dear friend", Russian President Vladimir Putin.First came Erdogan's carefully worded apology in June for ambushing and shooting down a Russian...

The auditor general's (AGD) recent report of "deficiencies" at the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) created the usual nine days of flap.Parading its expertise in lazily publishing the obvious, especially where it's also sensational, local media...