In Focus

Last Tuesday, The Gleaner carried a report about a Jamaican businessman named Shifu Huang, most likely of Chinese extract, being fined $5 million, or eight months' imprisonment, for unlicensed use of trademark.In 2016, he was first arrested and...

The family of Fulke Rose had been in Jamaica like many others from the time of the British occupation. By 1670, he owned 380 acres in St Catherine and was a member of the Jamaican Assembly from 1675, serving intermittently until the year before his...

If you, like me, were born or grew up in rural Jamaica in the immediate post-World War II years, you would have in some way been close to the history of the male-led Great Migration to Great Britain from the island's peasantry.Your own life story,...

On Friday, May 4, the Financial Gleaner published an article under the headline 'Job ad triggers BOJ probe - Bank of Accompong name breaches the law'.John Robinson, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), is quoted as saying, "By way of...

I cannot imagine the Ras' cloth headdress, and worse, a female who embellishes the very vanity upon which he burns fire running fingers through the mark of his covenant. Pardon my ignorance, but in the years in which I have attempted to 'overstand'...

I take issue here with the expressed intention of the monetary authorities to 'advance', in the near term, towards an inflation-targeting model of fiscal and monetary management for Jamaica.An inflation target is classified as one of the 'nominal...

"Well, the biggest, biggest man you ever, ever / Did-a see was-a was-a once a baby / In this life, in this life, in this life / In this, oh, sweet life / We're (coming in from the cold) from the cold"- Coming in From the Cold Bob MarleyDespite all...

The brand names Sunny, Vibes, Pacific and Denin may not be known to non-smokers, but, like Craven A and Matterhorn, they are cigarettes of the illegal type which, under the law, ought not to be available in Jamaica.I hold no brief for smokers or...

Good thing I checked online. The Gleaner quickly changed its print headline, 'Laziness, inefficiency crippling growth - PM' to 'Bureaucracy, inefficiency stifling growth - PM' in the online version of the news story "to more accurately reflect what...

Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has once again indicated the danger of the cavalier use of states of emergency. He has argued that the imposition of a state of public emergency is the ultimate tool in the law-enforcement arsenal.States of emergency ought...

As a young graduate student in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences (now Faculty of Science and Technology) at the University of the West Indies, my research focused on how the body breaks down carbohydrates found in common Jamaican foods. My...

One dismal, tragic day in May 1976 when political tribalism found deadly work for arsonists and murderers, gunmen surrounded the small community of Orange Lane in Kingston and set a block of houses on fire while forcefully hindering police and...