Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
They say that tough times reveal true character. Amidst all the uncertainty, fear and grief brought on by the pandemic, much of our previously well-masked colours have now been put on display. The pandemic has done a lot in reducing quality social...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
In this week’s Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and The UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research, we bring you the second of a two-part interview which the director of the UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research (...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
The Caribbean has long had a very positive relationship with Africa. From the 1960s, several countries, including Jamaica, have offered training to young professionals, advocated for development assistance and have stridently opposed apartheid....
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
It was predictable that, in an attempt to show that they are capable of collaboration, the rival political groups in Venezuela would pick their spurious claim to two-thirds of Guyana’s territory as a show of unity. Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:05 AM
Like most Jamaicans, after 18 months of COVID, I’m just tired of it. But what I’m most tired of is Government and many medical experts’ weak-kneed reaction to arrant nonsense bruited about by high-profile societal influencers. Many are so keen to...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:05 AM
“Mark, the anti-vaxxers are causing all kinds of worries in the United States (US). I am astounded at their reasons for not getting the vaccination. As for Jamaica, our people are rugged, troublesome, hard of hearing, defiant and violent. Not a...
In a recent offshore oil and gas conference in Houston, Guyana’s foreign minister said that the country’s economy is expected to grow 500 per cent by 2030. Guyana’s current US$6.8 billion real GDP would ignite to nearly US$35 billion, about the...
Recently, the prime minister made one of his most important announcements. Ever! He announced “I am not infallible.” Yes, PM. We know. It’s good to find out you know it, too. Hopefully, one day, the Opposition leader will discover the same thing...
We see that the man whose success is merely personal — the actor, the sophist, the millionaire, the aesthete — is incurably vulgar. - Soliloquies In England, George Santayana Amid scorching heat and arid sand, the Saharan giraffe thrives as...
I was living in New York in September 2001 when two planes – flown by terrorists – rammed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers. Many irate Americans demanded immediate revenge, calling for someone to be given a bloody nose for killing 3,000...
It is good to see that the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has nominated his Cabinet Secretary for Defence, Monica Juma, for the post of Commonwealth secretary-general. The Kenyan nomination suggests that African nations still believe that the...
You would have to be living under a rock not to be aware of COVID-19 and its 180-degree-pivot impact on lives and livelihoods. It is hard to imagine what people who lost loved ones to the overnight global pandemic are going through, since death is...
Product labels are important – they tell us what we are getting and provide information that guides our purchases. Imagine buying a product and not being aware of what it is made from or what it contains! As consumers, we have a right to know this...
There is, I suppose, no need to go out on a national campaign to state the obvious. Jamaicans do not respond well to moral suasion. At a time in 1988 after the devastation wreaked on Jamaica by Hurricane Gilbert, the wealthy and the dispossessed...
I weep for Xavier ‘Bojo’ Phillips. He watched his last football game in Howells Content near York Town, Clarendon on Sunday, August 8. The report in The Gleaner was chilling, “Little Xavier was shot and killed … as he sat on a grave watching a...
There is no doubt that time is almost at its end for the protection of the environment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report of August 2021 cited some ominous warnings that cannot be ignored. There is an imminent threat to...
The recent passing of Professor Gerald ‘Bunny’ Lalor forced to my mind a belated acknowledgement of the immense contribution of this giant of a man to my life, Jamaica, and the Caribbean. The years have given me the confidence to express my deepest...
In this week’s Reparation Conversations, we bring you the first of a two-part interview with British-Jamaican Lord Anthony Gifford (AG), by Director of the UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research (CRR), Professor Verene Shepherd (VS). Gifford is a...
Hands up if you are fed up with politicians creating alarm, ever so often, about the cost of food and other items poor people use and the quantities in which they are sold. I don’t know about you, but I am laden with disappointment and...
In my 71 years on this earth I have learned that poor people tend to be more biblically religious than those who can afford creature comforts. Or, at the very least, a bellyful of stewed oxtail on any day of the week. A man with a belly full may...
Empty shelves in Walmart. Amazon out of stock. This is just the beginning. Container shortages worldwide and supply chain disruptions from factories to lorries threaten to cancel Christmas. Already prices are beginning to rise and are projected to...
The ancient Olympics were part of sacred religious rites on Mount Olympus to honour the supreme Greek god Zeus. The modern Olympics are a different ritual, representing the children of the world coming out to play as a symbol of peace and harmony...
There is a higher place of dwelling that globally, all persons are being called to assume today. The media are fraught with scenes of calamities sadly resulting in fatalities from natural disasters such as earthquakes – Haiti, again August 14;...
The recent stand-off between the Accompong Maroons and the police has once again brought up the issue of sovereignty for this community. Captain Richard Currie has consistently asserted that his community is a separate state from Jamaica. Although...
The Delta strain is here and with it went the last hopes of achieving herd immunity through mass vaccination programmes. However, there is still talk about vaccinating to protect you and your loved ones. Companies are still considering mandatory...
