In Focus

Our recent silence on the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming a loud, booming sound resonating within many of us. Quiet but palpable! Unpalatable and frustrating, but seemingly unbreachable. It is a deep pain that resonates with many who belong to the...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) has mental health as a primary focus area for research and implementing programmes. Contrary to popular belief, Caribbean nationals were battling several issues...

The United Nations Global Road Safety Week, which started on May 17, has as its theme #Streets for Life, and in their open letter, the UN states that “Low speed, liveable streets are essential and urgent”. Their message is that “Streets for Life”...

In 1993, a gardener killed the lady who employed him, Jennifer Cox, a senior executive at a large insurance firm in Jamaica. He also hacked to death two ancillary workers employed to the household. About 20 years before that there was also another...

I n this issue of Reparation Conversations, a collaboration between The Gleaner and the Centre for Reparation Research (CRR) at The University of the West Indies, Alex Renton (AR), whose ancestors were enslavers in Jamaica and Tobago, talks to...

If we look at Jamaica’s evolution as a nation, we will see that the formation of the political parties and their style of personality-driven leadership mimicked the power games of the colonial experience. Since Jamaica attained its political...

Jamaica’s drive to achieve developed country status over the next decade will be a major challenge, further complicated by the struggle to protect businesses and livelihoods in the aftermath of a global health threat. Despite the setbacks caused by...

Technology is exponentially pushing the bounds of possibility and changing the face of human interaction. Smartphones and social media have experienced explosive increases in popularity in the last decade. With the rise in use of these platforms,...

Violence has been a plague in the lives of many children across the world. The World Health Organization describes violence as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a...

This past week, I had the good fortune, on behalf of NIA, to present and share perspectives at two important virtual forums. One was on the theme “Linking Good Governance to National Development”, sponsored by the JAMP and the PSOJ, with the...

I thought I was free, I thought everything was fine. My country, however, did not think the same way. We were going to be in a state of lockdown for two weeks. It was only Saturday, the lockdown started on Monday. The news that weekend was filled...

We recently compared the previous and current legislation governing insolvencies. We also looked at how the Insolvency Act (2014) has made significant improvements benefiting both companies and individuals in the event of financial distress. In...