In Focus

It's fashionable to honour modern, strong Jamaican women.It's also right. But I find many modern 'feminists' too ignorant or forgetful of women upon whose shoulders they stand, but for whose usually unheralded courage and accomplishment, despite...

For many years, Rosie would complain of joint pains but she never visited the doctor. She worked all her life braiding the hair of white tourists in Ocho Rios.She recently had to stop working because the joint pains in her hands and knees had become...

We appoint national coaches such as Jill McIntosh and Winfried Schäfer., respectively, to lead our netball and football teams to victory. While we can discuss and criticise individual decisions such as the starting team, game tactics and...

No! No! I don't mean the police have declared the Jamaica Labour Party an institution of interest. Never mind the presence of a contingent of officers at the headquarters of the party when the parliamentary caucus met there a couple of Fridays ago...

To tackle crime, we need a professional police force that enjoys broad public support. This public support can only come where there is a widespread perception that corrupt and oppressive conduct will be detected and corrected, rather than condoned....

I've consistently exposed Westminster government as anti-democratic.In Jamaica, 'elections' provide an illusion of democracy. These facades are Narnia-style gateways to five years of totalitarian rule, during which the accountability meter remains...

The Government of Jamaica has come up with a deal that is a game-changer in so far as Jamaica's fiscal account and investment profile are concerned. This is ironically as significant as PetroCaribe itself was when it was first developed 10 years ago...

A paradigm is said to be a person's individual mind map that takes him/her from information to conclusion. One should, therefore, easily understand that two people could get the exact same information and arrive at very different conclusions based...

The past week marked 180-odd years of Emancipation and 50-odd of political Independence.Yet we still operate a corrupt system of government compounded by a corrupt national mindset; a generalised disdain for propriety; and a deep-rooted belief in...

All over the world, governments are focusing on transforming, reforming, or modernising their public sectors to more effectively achieve what should be the fundamental goal of every state, which is to improve the quality of life of its citizens and...

When we construct the identity of a country, we not only create the image for an abstract entity, we create the image of the people. Therefore, the existing global image of Jamaica influences how Jamaicans are perceived and treated, particularly...