Climate change has become a phenomenon of global concern, especially as we have been continuously witnessing its destructive impacts throughout history. According to the United Nations, human activities have been the main drivers of climate change...
Bibi La Luz González, a Guatemalan alumna of the State Department’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, launched a non-profit in 2016 that promotes food security, working alongside low- and middle-income families and building a more inclusive...
An article by the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) on June 24, 2021, stated that “Cabinet gave approval for the settlement and financial support to citizens for claims arising from fires at Riverton Disposal Site on February 6, 2012, and March 7,...
My daughter is looking forward to her sweet 16 birthday next month with great anticipation. It is a kind of coming of age before the onset of adulthood. I am determined to make the occasion a memorable bonding opportunity. This rite-of-passage...
The largest survey of public opinion on climate change ever conducted confirms that most of Earth’s citizens are believing the science on climate change and witnessing its impacts. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Jamaica, which live...
Whenever I think of the great Jamaicans who used to walk among us and those who are still with us, never tiring of adding to the chain of values in making Jamaica a better place, I fully buy into a new appreciation of the term ‘cream rises to the...
This Sunday’s offering takes a closer look at 40 years of Jamaican miseducation; the glaring need for fundamental change; and the obstinate resistance to change coming from within. After 20 years of reports from Commissions on Education gathering...
We are once again caught up in another energy crises. This is likely to be the worst yet. Prices at the pump for our poor motorists are at the highest ever, and we are close to surpassing the record price for electricity. By the lack of a sense of...
Given the significant decline in resources and the questioning of the relevance of the Commonwealth Secretariat, a cloud of uncertainty covers the twice-postponed Commonwealth of Nations summit taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, the week of June 20....
In probably its most significant move towards national progress since first elected in 2016, this Government recently tabled a new-look Education Bill. The purpose of the Bill, inter alia, is expressly “to recognize and promote teaching as a...
Jamaica is en route to becoming a “Republic.” In the widely publicised statement by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, “We are moving on,” this message was clearly signalled to the Duke of Cambridge, William, on March 23. Days earlier, PM Holness told...
Before the affable, highly respected Jamaican minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, overseeing foreign affairs and foreign trade, decided to toss her hat into the ring for heading the Commonwealth Secretariat, few Jamaicans knew or cared about the...
This country is not short of a stock of misfits, monsters, and murderers. Unlike the huge and powerful United States, where, say, the socio- cultural make-up of the people living in the state of South Dakota is much different to those walking the...
The world of sport seems to be suffering from a severe bout of long COVID. Take the Reggae Girlz, for example. They seemed to be going along nicely. Team spirit appeared admirable. Despite obvious preparation problems, their professionalism and...
Equity in healthcare is a development imperative requiring, among other things, a serious relook at how the future of work is impacted by migration within the Commonwealth. The movement of labour across the Commonwealth countries has been part of...
With all the increased coverage surrounding the recent announcement of Health Minister Christopher Tufton’s key health initiatives for 2022-23, including highlights around policy reforms to curb the skyrocketing rates of non-communicable diseases (...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and citizens are being encouraged to wear lime green on Tuesdays in solidarity with protagonists of preventative methods of promoting a clean bill of health for beleaguered brains. The stressor of mental health...
In what can only be described as a momentous event in the India-Jamaica relations, the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, is landing in Jamaica today for a four-day state visit. It is the first-ever visit by an Indian President to Jamaica and...
The prime minister has spoken and so have selected members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Something is operating in Denham Town that is designed to ensure that the Zone of Special Operations, known as ZOSOs, must not work. According to the PM...
There has been much media hoopla regarding the Privy Council (PC) overturning Jamaica’s Appeal Court in the case of Lescene Edwards v R . I’m incredulous that the conversation has reached such an inglorious condition that this case becomes the...
Jamaica remains a special case for sustainable development in view of its unique and particular vulnerabilities, categorised by the United Nations as part of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Maximilien Pardo in The year 2020 or the...
Looking back at that Saturday evening way back in 1996, if my memory refuses to play games with me, I was OK with myself and in a good mood. My two friends, a married couple and I were ‘trampoozing,’ that is, driving out to any place and caring...
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all,” these words by Oliver Wendell Holmes, though poignant, convey a sublime message – and this is not without good reason. While all human bonds form...
Informal tenure often involves squatting, where households occupy a parcel of land that belongs to someone else, state Jan K. Brueckner and Harris Selod, “… while paying no financial compensation …” elaborated in ‘A Theory of Urban Squatting and...
As Jamaican children and adolescents return to school physically after two years of online learning, their health and safety are a priority for all – parents, caregivers, teachers, school administrators, government, and the private sector. Steps...
