In Focus

This week’s Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and the Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the West Indies, presents a summary of a Lecture “Reparation and Diversity: Building an Inclusive...

On October 14, I was among those who welcomed Edmund Bartlett convening the long-overdue meeting of Jamaica’s Parliament’s Integrity Commission Oversight Committee. This meeting began review of the work of the Integrity Commission, and in so doing...

Jamaicans across the board welcome development on the built environment. However, development should be non-partisan, belonging to political leaders on both sides of the Houses of Parliament, owned by government workers at both central and local...

South African cricketer Quinton de Kock’s politically inept decision not to “take the knee” as an anti-racism gesture during the Men’s T20 World Cup game against the West Indies forces us to recall a golden age of West Indian dominance of the sport...

In the months leading up to COP26, the terms accessibility and financing have become mantras that from a Caribbean perspective, threaten to fall on deaf ears. World leaders have been calling for a faster shift towards sustainable development, yet...

This is the second 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 looked at some of the devastating impacts...

A good friend of mine, now married, doesn’t wear a wedding ring. She didn’t get one and didn’t want one. She doesn’t think she should wear a wedding ring because she is repulsed by the pagan origins of wedding rings. You could ask me to what...

Last week, I tried to tell home truths to men who foolishly believe that they are in charge of a male/female relationship system called “The Patriarchy”. There’s no such thing. It’s an illusion created by women so they can embarrass men into...

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do; going all the way back to Abraham...

It is nothing short of shocking to learn that, despite the fact that the world is teetering dangerously on the precipice of a climate catastrophe with fatal consequences for small island states, some rich nations are lobbying against paying to help...

In this edition of Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Centre for Reparation Research (CRR), we highlight the reparation agenda laid out by the widow of Walter...

This is the first in the 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 period to 2050 will be a time of exceptional turbulence. The world is...