Just a short search of the topic of adoption will reveal several articles surrounding the amendments to the Children (Adoption of) Act 1958. On January 20, 2014, an article published in The Observer titled ‘Adoption Act under Review’, indicated...
President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson, who former Prime Minister Edward Seaga once described as being from ‘good stock’, was at his party-political tribal best in the Senate on Friday, November 26, when he railed against Opposition senators...
Jamaicans have the right to the best quality, healthiest food possible, but we are totally unaware of the presence of one of the most harmful ingredients, trans fats, which are hidden in many of the packaged foods that we eat every day. In a recent...
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So, Barbados is now a Republic. Has it? My old friend, the Oxford English Dictionary, defines “Republic” as “a country that is governed by a president and politicians elected by the people and where there is no King or Queen”. Guyana, a...
“Most urban growth is unplanned, incremental – and informal,” according to Brussels-based Cities Alliance in 2020 at the UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum 10th session, titled ‘Addressing Informality in Cities Through Inclusive Urban Governance’. As a...
In this issue of Reparation Conversations, a collaboration between The Gleaner and the Centre for Reparation Research (CRR) The University of the West Indies. We revisit the matter of reparative justice for the Windrush generation, an old issue...
At the end of last week, Andrew Holness found himself at one of the lowest points of his power as prime minister. In the back and forefront of his mind were these things. 1. He had taken Jamaica through the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
This is the seventh in a series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. In 2050 there will be six billion in the world’s workforce, of whom five...
When Burnett Robinson, senior pastor of the Grand Concourse Church in the Bronx, preached his sermon on November 13, he did not know it would be his last. But he dug his own professional grave with his words. The Seventh-day-Adventist Church was...
Just two days before, a double hit job had snuffed out the lives of two men. In the little joint about a hundred metres away from where blood was spilled, the place was packed with men talking about everything else but murder. “Tings a tun up fi...
Among the most nonsensical statements uttered by a British Parliamentarian and repeated in the British newspaper, The Sunday Times, is that Barbados will become a republic at the dictation of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. The...
I’m still kicking myself for a minor error in last Sunday’s column ‘Corruption: public enemy number one’. I dated PNP MP Heather Robinson’s resignation from representational politics (after refusing to “hug up gunmen”) in 2012 instead of 1996 when...
Rarely in the world have women’s and girls’ rights been challenged in such a concerning way as they have been in Afghanistan. The European Union (EU) has made it clear that future EU development assistance will depend on the respect for norms on...
This is the sixth in a series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. The first article in this series suggested that the reforms needed to avert...
On November 13, the world sat with bated breath awaiting the final agreement of parties at what was the end of an exciting and hope filled two weeks in Glasgow known as COP26. In 2016, there was the agreement to keep temperature at 1.5 degrees...
In this edition of Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and The University of the West Indies’ Centre for Reparation Research Digicel’s owner and founder, Denis O’Brien, extends his unambiguous support of...
The thing about a man like Ruel Reid, who was once the active principal of Jamaica College (JC) and honourable minister of government, is that it was too easy to shred the honour and yield to expediency. Let’s back up. JC ‘loaned’ on secondment to...
Public Enemy Number One in all “Developing Nations” is corruption. EVERY national failing and social evil stems from that root. Jamaica’s economy is stagnant because fiscal and monetary policy is often corruptly implemented. Government contracts...
This is the fifth in a series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. It will be a much hotter and more crowded world in 2050. There will be...
The 1692 ‘Plan of Kingston’ laid out by John Goffe was an economic enterprise and business venture established by the Monarchy of England, Jamaica’s governor, privateers, pirates, buccaneers, and planters. As merchants, many of these persons held...
For those wondering what all the fuss was about, here are the 21 questions laid in Parliament by Julian Robinson (on behalf of Mikael Phillips) addressed to Transport Minister Robert Montague: 1. Does the minister retain confidence in the board of...
At the end of enslavement, most Africans on plantations in the Caribbean and North and South America were illiterate. Europeans used slave codes to make it a criminal offence for Africans to acquire this skill. This ensured that Africans would be...
The Alligator Pond shoreline has undergone as much erosion as Hellshire Beach, and without intervention, nothing will stop the damage. The much-loved experience at Little Ochie Sea Food and Oswald Sea Food restaurants remains under threat, and with...
This is the fourth in a series of eight articles looking at the ways that the world will change between now and 2050 and analysing the implications for Jamaica’s future. The world’s vehicle fleet is about to be transformed by two simultaneous...
A November 9 article in the Jamaica Observer reported that there would be no mining or any other related activity that could harm the environment in the Cockpit Country Area Proposed for Protection. That proviso was given as a follow-up to JISCO...
