In Focus

As Jamaica seeks to take advantage of the opportunities in the digital economy, the use of a mobile payment gateway is a huge part of the process. Mobile payment (m-payment) can be defined as any type of payment that is processed using a mobile...

All of last week I spent some time in Florida, where I met a most interesting criminal investigator and lawyer. He had Jamaican roots, and based on what he said, he was almost totally convinced that Jamaica was being played up, down, and across the...

The Disabilities Act (2014) came into effect in February 2022 after languishing in limbo for eight years pending parliamentary approval of the regulations, which finally took place in October 2021. It was hailed as a historic feat, and in a media...

To win schoolboy football at the Manning and DaCosta Cup levels, a school not only has to recruit football talent, but to do so very heavily. Bringing in students based on their sports ability starts from first form and continues up to sixth form...

The American Embassy sits strong and secure just south of the well-known community of Standpipe. A part of the view from the entrance walls, where the embassy intersects with many Jamaicans seeking visitor visas, leads ones eyes to the offices and...

Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, has opened a three-year investigation into the role of The Netherlands in the Maafa, the Holocaust of African enslavement. This project’s terms of reference spans the late 16th century to the present and...

According to a July 2022 Time magazine article, “Japan, a country of more than 125 million people, experiences significantly less gun violence and other forms of violent crime than the global rate. Annual gun-death rates in Japan typically amount...

Academic arguments about the legality of the Government’s desperate reaching for states of public emergency (SOEs) crutches seem to have run their course. In any event, seemingly in furtherance of the purpose of government for the JLP by the JLP,...

According to INDECOM, 14 policemen were involved in 30 (23 per cent) of 120 police-involved killings in a one-year period ending June 2021. If one is not a keen-eyed police investigator, the numbers would only be ‘cause for concern’ instead of a...

In the first of this two-part article, we focused on why the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) decided to honour Dennis Scott as part of their 45h anniversary. Part I described Company Song, staged by second- and final...

What was to have been a serious national crime-fighting debate descended into scattered semantic squabbles akin to prep school playground scuffling. The squabbles didn’t end with the Opposition’s blinkered blockage of the Government’s attempted SOE...

As we head towards the end of the year, many of us will soon be surrounded by our family and friends sat around dinner tables as we celebrate the festive season. Look around the table and reflect on the fact that, on average, every third woman you...