In Focus

It is August 1 as I write this column. Emancipation Day. Feeling nice and sweet after all that freedom. We who live in these times were never roped by the neck and we were never forced to hear the screams of our mothers and sisters as they were...

In the heart of a nation divided, the 2024 presidential race had taken an unexpected turn. President Joe Biden had stepped aside, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris to carry the torch for the Democratic Party. On the other side, former President...

On Friday, July 19, I described the move by the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) as “unconscionable” as it would “provide the company with an undeserved windfall”. The information I will present in this article supports this statement, and...

The battle against plastics began decades ago. In the early days, the focus was on the proliferation of plastic pollution and its impact on land use. The battle shifted in the 1980s, with local skirmishes against single-use plastics that created...

For decades, corruption scandals have undermined successive regimes in the United States (US). Fraudulent officials have enriched themselves by exploiting the power they hold in office. The latest addition to this muddy saga is Democratic Senator...

Two Saturdays ago, America’s politics, democracy and its immediate electoral future fell into a pit of despair out of which it may have trouble in climbing. While speaking at one of his usual raucous rallies, this time in Pensylvania, Donald Trump...

Congratulations are in order to UK’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, on his Labour Party’s resounding victory and to David Lammy on his appointment as UK’s foreign secretary. With the perception of a Labour Party-led UK government being more...

In his book The Power of Reconciliation, Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby, points to the damaging effects of slavery as well as other economic, social, and political maladies and means of exploitation that undermine human dignity...

Global warming has a far greater impact on countries in the Caribbean region. When problematic weather conditions occur, the restoration of energy supplies is always at the forefront of any meaningful recovery. Sadly, in Jamaica, we are in a...

Hollywood loves a sequel, so it is fitting that the current US presidential contest is a repeat of the bitter 2020 slugfest. The recent presidential debate between Joe Biden, the incumbent 81-year-old Democrat, and Donald Trump, his 78-year-old...

The question of dual citizenship has evolved into a vexing issue for Jamaicans at home and in the diaspora, perhaps for different reasons. Some really don’t care. I have heard some express displeasure that their loyalty to Jamaica, the land of...

On July 31, and as Jamaica has been doing for many years now, hundreds will gather at Seville, St Ann, in a space that used to be a plantation and which some call ‘The Great House’ (what was so great about a space that enslaved our ancestors, I do...