In Focus

As the African Union celebrates its 20-year anniversary, the acceleration of the partnership between Africa and the Caribbean has come to the fore. Afro-Caribbean relations date back to the infamous epoch of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, which...

Political parties enjoy their best times when they win governmental power. They also can afford to accept the accolades from the media and those in other influential sectors of the country who find it convenient to shower them with praises. At...

Y’all knew it was just a matter of time before I returned to the urgent need for constitutional reform. This time I’ll try to be as quiet as possible while presenting views on the subject of two former prime ministers expressed in writing almost 30...

Today we pay tribute to the freedom fighters who ensured the decolonisation of Ayiti, a country whose struggle against colonialism has influenced the declaration of UNESCO’s “International Day” for the remembrance of the transatlantic trafficking...

So what is love? Geraldine Jones used to define love flippantly (see what I did there?). She would say “Love is a feeling you feel when you’re about to feel a feeling you never felt before!” Cute but wrong. Love isn’t a feeling. It’s a process. It...

The Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) has found reason to disagree with recent findings of a Don Anderson poll that found that 80 per cent of Jamaicans are against removing or changing the buggery law. According to a news...

Now might be a good time to consider going solar. The price of energy is skyrocketing. It is happening all over the world – at petrol pumps and on electricity bills. The war in Ukraine has caused unprecedented hikes in the cost of oil and natural...

With recent high-level visits to Africa by the foreign ministers of Russia and the United States – Sergey Lavrov and Antony Blinken – it is critical that the continent define its own vision of a post-Ukraine world. Africa must focus on concrete...

Marronage, or the process of fleeing enslavement, had been a reality from the early days of European colonising of the Western Hemisphere. It is in no way surprising that people would seek to escape enslavement and all the human exploitation that...

Two Wednesdays ago, I was disappointed at seeing two primary schools competing on a TV quiz programme. It seemed to me that the fates of society and the education sector had conspired against these eager, well-meaning young children. The final...

World Senior Citizen’s Day is celebrated on August 21 each year. The day is intended to recognise the achievements of the elderly and also increase awareness of the factors and issues that affect them, such as health deterioration and abuse....

Denmark and Germany are not usually among the Empires considered when colonial accountability is being reckoned. Those star roles are invariably reserved for Britain, France, The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. And although the Pope divided the “...