Alongside the COVID-19 virus, which has infected over 23 million in the United States and, regrettably, killed almost 400,000, there is another virus that is now infecting at least twice as many than COVID-19 in America. That virus is properly...
Surely it had to be a novel scripted out of a screaming story about war and guns and bullets and lives being torn apart. Or maybe it was something more terrible than could be thought of. It was. The president of the United States (US) had directly...
In this first article for the New Year, Myrtha Désulmé makes the case for Haiti to be at the centre of the reparation movement. Haiti celebrated its Independence Day on January 1 and its Ancestry Day on January 2, so this article is a timely...
Every year, many people in Jamaica feel earthquakes. Some years, there are many, some years there are few. But why do we get earthquakes in Jamaica? This is related to plate tectonics. Plates are relatively ridged parts of the Earth’s crust, and...
To track Trump’s trajectory of duplicity, stunning incompetence, and destruction, some dates and observations must be recalled. June 2015: This is the one always captioned by “… Trump had slowly descended a golden escalator …” the month he...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the chronic deficiencies in our education system while spurring discussions on the need for mental-health and academic support for students. I, for one, applaud the Government’s decision to establish the COVID...
Most Jamaicans woke up to the news of COVID-19 in March 2020 when a Jamaica-born woman living in Britain travelled to attend a funeral in St Thomas. By mid-year, the spread of the novel coronavirus was more understood even though many of us were...
While “COVID still a keep” and each of us must better observe the rules to manage the pandemic more successfully, 2020 is now history, and history has lessons to teach, providing we are willing to learn. Two such lessons we need to emphasise. One...
As the year comes to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the positive initiatives that have been deployed by island communities around the world. Island economies have been some of the worst affected globally by the pandemic, with key...
Recently, I accepted an invitation for a mani/pedi day with one of my friends. Unfortunately, what was intended to be a nice afternoon of pampering became a rushed, unpleasant and eventually hostile experience that regrettably occurs too often in...
The Gleaner presents the fourth article in the bimonthly guest column, ‘Reparation Conversations’. Today, historian Dr Kris Manjapra from Tufts University and a Network Scholar at the Centre for Reparation Research reminds us of the tragedy of the...
This has been a year that has tested each and every person on our planet. 2020 will be recalled as a time of tragedy for those among us who have lost a loved one or have endured illness brought about by the coronavirus. People have lost livelihoods...
On Friday December 3, 2020, there was reported to be “drama” at the sitting of the Senate as Peter Bunting was not able to be sworn in because the appointment of Norman Horne was still in effect. In response to the Friday events, the editorial...
Healthy eating is just as important during older years as it is during childhood. As we age, it is important to eat healthy as good nutrition helps to improve how we feel, helps to ward off sickness, and prevents or reduces the onset of chronic...
Dr Lloyd Barnett, correctly referred to in a recent Gleaner editorial as “a lawyer and constitutional scholar”, has impactfully alerted us in an article in the Sunday Gleaner to the longstanding reality that: “An important factor that must be taken...
In 2020, the percentage of the Jamaican electorate willing to participate in elections fell to its lowest in over 70 years. At the same time, the proportion of our people prepared to justify a military takeover to deal with high crime and...
Jamaica’s economic performance over the last 58 years has made for uncomfortable reading, especially as it relates to economic growth. Since 1962, we have grown at two per cent or more on only about 21 occasions. The major part of our economic life...
I came to Jamaica directly from Zimbabwe, where I served as the Indian ambassador for four years. Even before coming to Jamaica, I was captivated by the great cultural icon Bob Marley, who was the only international artist invited to perform at the...
The latest development concerning the coronavirus pandemic is the pending approval in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, and elsewhere, of several vaccines with the potency to immunise individuals against the infection and spread...
Two Fridays ago, another fracture was applied to the frail and wobbly body of the People’s National Party (PNP). It was another tragic act in what is either deliberate farce or accidental comedy. In the PNP’s post-election chapter, it presents...
Twenty-seven percent of women and four per cent of men polled across the world say they have experienced sexual harassment in a one-year period alone, according to a Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) study published in 2018. For too long, women,...
Damion Crawford, People’s National Party (PNP) vice-president, senator, and spokesman on culture and entertainment had a supersensitive, private telephone conversation with two PNP-connected ladies sometime in September. Recently, it was leaked,...
In 2015, I conducted a rather small study on the impacts of WhatsApp group chat on tertiary-level students’ perception of a first-year composition course that they were pursuing. That study was eventually presented at a conference in Ohio themed’...
Over and over, our political leaders have promised us to implement the measures necessary for much- needed changes to our Constitution. In 2022, Jamaica will celebrate its 60th anniversary of Independence. Unless we begin to implement the...
The reparation movement has a long genealogy. It started as a fight for freedom by those captured and sold into slavery in the Americas and subjected to unimaginable abuse by enslavers and continued on the heels of Emancipation as formally enslaved...
