Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:08 AM
Jamaica’s newest political party, the United Independent Congress (UIC), and its leader, Joseph Patterson, made an attempt last week to leave the maternity ward. Alas, the exit door was chained and locked. So Mr Patterson thumbed his nose at...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:08 AM
The fast-paced and constantly evolving COVID-19 virus is outpacing us. Those who refuse to recognise that the pandemic has presented very fluid circumstances are still stuck in 2020 when the only strain we knew of the virus was the strain on the...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:08 AM
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a tremendous burden on health infrastructure globally, resulting in a huge cost of lives lost, social displacement, mental-health challenges and economic fallout. Approximately 20 per cent of persons require...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:07 AM
In this edition of Reparation Conversations, we reproduce the speech by Prof Verene Shepherd, vice-chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), at the UN High Level Meeting to commemorate the 20th...
Published:Saturday | September 25, 2021 | 12:06 AM
On September 18 the People’s National Party (PNP) celebrated its 83rd anniversary. Given COVID-19 and responsible political behaviour, celebratory events were muted. Anniversaries are always good moments to pause and reflect. Political parties...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party a victory in Monday's parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats failed and nearly mirrored the result of two years ago.
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2021 | 12:07 AM
I watched a video recently on social media and I was shocked by the racialisation of knowledge that it portrayed. An African woman was shown two groups of people and asked to choose who she would trust to improve her health and why. In one group,...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2021 | 12:06 AM
The public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly focused the attention and resources of governments around the world on suppressing and containing it. The cause has been made more costly and more prolonged by those who...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2021 | 12:06 AM
There was just something I saw in the young man that moved me to speak to him when I was first introduced to him about 15 years ago. Floyd Green. We spoke briefly. In that time, I told him that I saw him moving like a rocket, based on what had been...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2021 | 12:06 AM
An afternoon radio hostess, apparently linguistically challenged, usually ends her show with “Coming up: the BEST news in the land”. Sigh. Since the content of “news” is never all good much less “best”, I’m sure she means something more like “best...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2021 | 12:06 AM
What, ‘Sweet relief as Gordon Town Road brand new’ was the headline in The Gleaner of September 13 about its reopening. Many congratulations to all who worked assiduously to make this happen. Was this record time? There is much good that still...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2021 | 12:06 AM
As some world leaders gather in New York for their annual United Nations (UN) General Assembly rituals, the September 22 debate on ‘Reparations, Racial Justice, and Equality for People of African Descent’, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused Jamaica and other countries in the world to be experiencing an extraordinary education crisis. These crises include school closures, a demand for online resources for teaching and learning, and an increase in...
The agonising recollection of 9/11 two decades later is exacerbated by Biden’s abrupt withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and a chain of extraordinary events, most notably, the sudden collapse and surrender of the Ashraf Ghani...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:07 AM
Jamaica is in the throes of the third wave of the coronavirus infection, most likely as a result of the Delta variant. To date, we have recorded over 74,000 confirmed infections and over 1,600 deaths. It is also true that some 49,000 persons have...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:07 AM
In May 2002, following heavy rain, the Cane River on the border of St Andrew and St Thomas broke its banks and flooded the community of Bull Bay, where my parents lived. I was getting ready for my A-levels that morning. We were fortunate – the...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
They say that tough times reveal true character. Amidst all the uncertainty, fear and grief brought on by the pandemic, much of our previously well-masked colours have now been put on display. The pandemic has done a lot in reducing quality social...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
In this week’s Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Gleaner and The UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research, we bring you the second of a two-part interview which the director of the UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research (...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
The Caribbean has long had a very positive relationship with Africa. From the 1960s, several countries, including Jamaica, have offered training to young professionals, advocated for development assistance and have stridently opposed apartheid....
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:06 AM
It was predictable that, in an attempt to show that they are capable of collaboration, the rival political groups in Venezuela would pick their spurious claim to two-thirds of Guyana’s territory as a show of unity. Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:05 AM
Like most Jamaicans, after 18 months of COVID, I’m just tired of it. But what I’m most tired of is Government and many medical experts’ weak-kneed reaction to arrant nonsense bruited about by high-profile societal influencers. Many are so keen to...
Published:Saturday | September 11, 2021 | 12:05 AM
“Mark, the anti-vaxxers are causing all kinds of worries in the United States (US). I am astounded at their reasons for not getting the vaccination. As for Jamaica, our people are rugged, troublesome, hard of hearing, defiant and violent. Not a...
In a recent offshore oil and gas conference in Houston, Guyana’s foreign minister said that the country’s economy is expected to grow 500 per cent by 2030. Guyana’s current US$6.8 billion real GDP would ignite to nearly US$35 billion, about the...
Recently, the prime minister made one of his most important announcements. Ever! He announced “I am not infallible.” Yes, PM. We know. It’s good to find out you know it, too. Hopefully, one day, the Opposition leader will discover the same thing...
We see that the man whose success is merely personal — the actor, the sophist, the millionaire, the aesthete — is incurably vulgar. - Soliloquies In England, George Santayana Amid scorching heat and arid sand, the Saharan giraffe thrives as...
