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Garth Rattray | Find those moles at our ports

Published:Sunday | January 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMGarth Rattray

Not long ago, I shipped two flat-screen televisions from New York to Kingston. One was sent as unaccompanied luggage and the other was shipped to the port. The experience at the airport wasn’t too bad, but it entailed very detailed...

Garth Rattray | Knighthood for Usain Bolt

Published:Sunday | August 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMGarth Rattray

The amazing talents of our elite track athletes have spoilt us. Their repeated international successes and world dominance caused many to see them as unbeatable. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some years ago, a scientific group did a...

Garth Rattray | Who is a real man?

Published:Sunday | June 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMGarth Rattray

According to the CIA World Factbook, Jamaica has an estimated total population of 2,950,210. And, between the ages of 25 to 64 (the so-called productive years), we have 619,424 males. An indeterminate number of our males are not real (stand-up) men...

Critiquing the new highway

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMGarth Rattray

The newly completed North-South leg of Highway 2000 was badly needed. Our little country could never afford to construct that beautiful and magnificent feat of engineering. My opinion of China's involvement in countries such as ours is that it is a...

That noisy silence

Published:Sunday | March 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMGarth Rattray

My disappointment with the recent general election is that only 870,663 out of 1,824,000 eligible voters (47.7 per cent) exercised their franchise. Universal adult suffrage is a hard-fought right, not just a privilege reserved for the fortunate few...

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