In Focus

At COP27, there was a multitude of competing interests and voices that sought the world’s attention. But one thing that became clear was the chorus of small and often vulnerable states demanding justice now and at scale to address their concerns...

One week from today, the Christian world will celebrate the arrival of Jesus Christ to this mortal toil. His teachings have inspired the birth of a religion He never wanted or sought, provided too many mere mortals with tools used to control...

It is an indisputable fact that Jamaica relies heavily on remittances to support the economy. In 2020, these inflows stood at US$2.9 billion, which at the time, was equivalent to 21 per cent of GDP. This was up from 15 per cent of GDP recorded in...

“…There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served …” writes Jane...

At Emancipation in 1834, the Caymanas Estate in St Catherine comprised three separate parcels - Ellis Caymanas, Taylor Caymanas, Ewing Caymanas – records B. W. Higman in ‘Jamaica Surveyed’. By 1885, Caymanas had 6,000 parent titles for Bernard...

The situation was most convenient for me to immediately sprout an advanced degree in clinical psychology as I watched that hauntingly troubling video of the Homestead Primary student on his personal burst of anger and violence. For a while, I came...

The $50 million action epic, The Woman King – directed by African-American, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and filmed in Cape Town and Kwazulu-Natal - recounts the tale of the all-woman regiment of Agojie warriors from the Dahomey kingdom in 1823. The...

Here we go again. Another World Cup-magnitude political football game has started, with crime fighting as the ball, States of Public Emergency (SOEs) as one team’s main striker, and Nobby Stiles (remember him?) as the other’s bulldog defender....

I was born, raised, schooled, and up to this point, live in the parish of St Thomas. This is the place where Paul Bogle is revered like a saint by many. Everyday, someone in the parish calls upon the power of this extraordinary man to prevail over...

Those who understand the value of land understand that it is the means to control the nation, its resources, its people. Who has the land can enjoy it for himself. Recent developments in the struggle over land should tell us where we are going as a...

Recently, Jamaicans have grasped every opportunity to contest tribal squabbles about every societal dysfunction on display. For me, the week’s highlight was the taxi drivers’ “strike” to demand a ticket amnesty. Yes, THAT’s what it was all about...

BB was then my friend. Like me he was eight years old and hated one of his main evening chores; preparing hog food. I was then this skinny ‘town boy’ living with his parents, the Wallaces and the rest of their children in a sleepy village named...