Human rights and constitutional violations in Haiti have been ignored for too long by the Organization of American States (OAS). The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has also avoided dealing with incendiary political issues in Haiti. Meanwhile, more...
Not long after Omar Davies was handed the peachy sweetness of the safe People’s National Party (PNP) seat of South St Andrew in 1993 so that he could be named minister of finance, he had a wake-up call about violence, criminality, and gunmen. He...
This outgoing year of 2020 is extraordinary. We have experienced the most serious global pandemic in a century, which is still wreaking havoc across the world. Some countries are facing the threat of a second wave of infections. To contain the...
I love Christmas. It’s more like I adore Christmas and have done so my entire life for as far back as memory serves. I am a social person, and Christmas fulfils my mothering urge in every way. I love shopping Christmas sales for bargain gifts for...
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke The controversy surrounding the recently named committees of Parliament continues. It started with the replacing of the opposition chairmen with...
Governments in Central America are calling for “climate justice” after the devastation of their countries by Eta and Iota as both tropical storms and hurricanes. The Central American countries are echoing a call previously made by Caribbean...
It Has long been established that it is socially acceptable to trust the village pastor over the town pickpocket. But even though the pickpocket may have a sharp knife in his waistband and may use it if cornered, most times, he sticks out, and he...
In my first class in violence studies, my white female professor stated: “There are two philosophical pillars that guide violence experts that make us different from development practitioners. 1. Every perpetrator is also a victim. 2. Saving or...
Healthy eating is a cornerstone of healthy living. In the presence of diabetes, you need to know how foods affect your blood sugar(glucose) levels. It is not only the type of foods or the combinations thereof that you eat, but also how much and...
In the second of the guest column, ‘Reparation Time’ in collaboration with The Centre for Reparation Research (CRR) at The University of the West Indies. CRR’s first Research Fellow, Dr Ahmed Reid, highlights the disparities and the large deficits...
I recently took up gardening as a hobby. Aside from being very relaxing and fulfilling, it is also quite informative. For one, it helps to remind me of my limitations, where I may have extraordinary success in one area, yet fail miserably in a...
(I am confident that when all the votes are counted in the United Stated presidential election, Joseph R. Biden will be elected president.) President-elect Joseph (Joe) R. Biden’s history of strong support for multilateralism in dealing with...
The direct effect of COVID-19 on children appears less severe when compared with adults. A small per cent may have severe presentations, especially those with underlying health conditions. Rarely, healthy children with COVID-19 develop inflammation...
It was must-watch television in the 1960s to early 1970s. Hogan’s Heroes was an extremely comedic spoof on the antics inside a German prisoner of war camp. In one scene, a sullen-faced SS officer says to the camp commandant, “The SS has no friends...
Over these recent weeks, the news media have stirred a pot that has brought back to the top of mind several awful memories that relate to the period of 1976 to 1980 in Jamaica, a volatile and interesting period. I was a teenager at that time and...
“Democracy is messy, and it’s hard.” – Robert Kennedy, Jr. After more than 200 years, the American journey “to form a more perfect Union” continues, with important lessons for other countries pursuing a democratic path. According to Harry...
At the time I am writing this column, Thursday night at 11 p.m., the votes coming in from Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina have not yet been fully counted. In an election where voter turnout has hit records and mail-in...
The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) is celebrating its 45th anniversary. Established on December 5, 1974, the institute is present in 14 CARICOM member states and serves a collective population of approximately 6.2...
As the world’s first national-level exhibition with import being its theme, the China International Import Expo (CIIE), at its third session, is being held both online and offline in Shanghai as scheduled for November 5 to 10, 2020. By holding the...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on October 7, 2020, to a team of two women in science, Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier, a French national from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin; and Dr Jennifer Doudna, an American working at the University of...
Elections, they say, have consequences. That is regardless of whether they are in a state, a corporation, or a political organisation. The People’s National Party (PNP) will have perhaps its most consequential internal presidential election since...
“Tan a yuh yaad,” shelter-in-place, lock down, quarantine, or isolation. Call it by any name, it means that someone is going to be home alone. Whether self-imposed or by edict, the feeling is the same. Alone and lonely are first cousins. To be...
There was hardly any time allowed for it to be a long, drawn-out campaign where People’s National Party (PNP) constituency reps, party workers, and delegates would get bored, be cured of orange fever, then go home again to wait out COVID-19 and see...
The United States (US) will decide on November 3 whether to re-elect the 74-year-old Republican president, Donald Trump, or to choose 77-year-old Democrat Joe Biden as its new leader. Both are the oldest-ever presidential candidates in US history....
Just over a week ago, shortly after a press conference by the Government at which it was announced that stiffer laws are coming for contraband in prisons, I sent a riddle to a few of my colleagues. It read: “A sore breaks out because the cut was...
