In Focus

By now every media consumer knows of the kerfuffle over timing of Integrity Commission’s (IC) reports on its investigations of a 2006-2009 relationship between PM and Westcon Construction Limited. What was that relationship? As MP, Andrew Holness...

While US President Joe Biden was touring Ukraine in a surprise visit to show support for the war effort, his rival, President Donald Trump, was addressing the home-based tragedy of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and its impact on...

Recently, I encountered the South Coast Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP) roadworks on my way to Bull Bay. Apart from the poor state of the roads, I noticed a grey film covering anything close to the road - trees, light posts, cars, shops, houses...

Jamaica’s attempt to apply Westminster to a three million population with just 63 MPs has succeeded only in creating Government by Diktat. For example, last Sunday I queried Nigel Clarke’s facile assertion that files are “cleared” whenever a new...

I tend to fall on the side of Jamaicans who believe that maximum penalties ought to be imposed on convicted baby killers, rapists of all types, rampaging shottas, and those in an irreversible embrace of the gun. Like some of you reading this, I do...

One should not be afraid to reaffirm one’s understanding of a norm or a class construct even if its admittance or discovery is socially embarrassing. Let’s use lottery scamming as an example. Most law-abiding Jamaicans believe that it’s wrong. And...

Whenever life’s vicissitudes rubbished my predictions or promises the Dunce’s consolation was always “If a macca mek it jook yu!” On Tuesday readers learned why I’ve been avoiding comment on the specifics of SSL fraud allegations shocking the...

Whether you call it African/African-American/Black History or Reggae Month, this is the month in which many of us recall critical aspects of our slavery and post-slavery history. So make this month count and continue to learn from the bi-monthly...

Recently, there has been much buzz about climate change and its detrimental impacts on humans, wildlife, and natural resources. An article by Dr Vanessa White-Barrow ‘Climate change impacts on food security and nutrition’ published in June 2022...

I keep telling you nothing in this world is as it appears. The trouble is spiritual inexperience and religious indoctrination combine to breed perennial anxiety that impatiently demands palliative speculation rather than inconvenient reality. There...

Last week, I had the honour of addressing the 43rd staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast. Held under the theme, “Strengthening Communities Through Peace, Justice, and Forgiveness”, this year’s event underscored the need to rebuild our...

“... And explain to me truly what I ask: Why have they built this huge hulk of a horse? Who created it? What do they aim at? What religious object or war machine is it?...” wrote Virgil in the The Aeneid in 29-19 BC. What does this have to do with...