In Focus

This month marks a decade since the start of the ‘Afro-Arab Spring’. Led by technology-wielding youths, these revolutions toppled mummified dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. The dry Harmattan winds of this North African spring blew across...

The scholarship on reparation for colonial atrocities is growing. The latest publication is Social...

In the mid 1970s, I met a well-known gunman of the time with a lifetime alliance to one of our two political parties. We instantly took a shine to each other, regularly meeting at a nightclub in Cross Roads. Dreadlocks, broad smile, and handsome...

When we spoke last week, the tragedy and the horrors poured out as *Phyllis told me of the many times she was raped as a child and adolescent, battered, bruised and meant to feel like she was worth less that fowl droppings. Now in her early 50s, I...

It was 71 years ago, on January 26, 1950, as India’s Constitution came into effect, the country embarked on her journey as a republic. Our constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility...

In this week’s REPARATION CONVERSATIONS, a partnership between The Gleaner and the UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research (CRR), Earl Bousquet highlights the life and contribution of Nobel Laureate, Sir Arthur Lewis. The article coincides with the...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the billion-dollar damage to the country’s infrastructure brought on by recent flood rains, will require that Jamaica perform some audacious financial and scholastic acrobatics to remain buoyant. Where COVID-19 is...

Japan and Jamaica have a long history of friendship since the establishment of the diplomatic relationship in 1964. The two countries have common values of freedom, democracy, market economy, and we have been collaborating on issues such as world...

Surely it had to be a novel scripted out of a screaming story about war and guns and bullets and lives being torn apart. Or maybe it was something more terrible than could be thought of. It was. The president of the United States (US) had directly...

Every year, many people in Jamaica feel earthquakes. Some years, there are many, some years there are few. But why do we get earthquakes in Jamaica? This is related to plate tectonics. Plates are relatively ridged parts of the Earth’s crust, and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the chronic deficiencies in our education system while spurring discussions on the need for mental-health and academic support for students. I, for one, applaud the Government’s decision to establish the COVID...

While “COVID still a keep” and each of us must better observe the rules to manage the pandemic more successfully, 2020 is now history, and history has lessons to teach, providing we are willing to learn. Two such lessons we need to emphasise. One...