Would it be all right if I called Geert Wilders a piece of human waste? No? Damn. Well, then, can I call him a deeply cynical politician who is willing to get people killed to advance his political career? Okay, thanks.Geert Wilders is a deeply...
President Barack Obama used the N-word during an interview released Monday to make a point that there's still plenty of room for America to combat racism.The CNN story continued, "Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not...
The killing of nine persons at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Charleston, South Carolina, including the 47-year-old pastor and senator, is indicative that the American society has a gun culture problem, especially when we...
It appears a great many of us missed critical biology lessons or opted to do so at Sunday school. I have concluded that can be the only explanation for our belief that raising the age of consent from 16 to 18 years, as it currently exists in Section...
Twenty years ago, the men's 400 metres was a highlight of the 1995 National Championships. Greg Haughton and Danny McFarlane became the first Jamaicans to run under 45 seconds for the distance on local soil. Haughton went on to win individual medals...
As I walked around the Diaspora Conference last week in Montego Bay, it was very apparent that my peers were missing. Those members of the diaspora in attendance were pushing the age average well above 50. I saw very few persons who were below 35,...
Again, Jamaica's education ministry has it ass backwards.No, this isn't a sex-education column. Today's rant is about the monumental disaster called GSAT. Under different names, this example of national child abuse has been passed off as a '...
What if, on that fateful day some years ago, the Ministry of Education had placed me at Camperdown High instead of Campion College?What if I had attended a so-called 'technical' high school in the inner city instead of an iconic uptown institution...
Having seen what is being touted as Jamaica's strongest possible team play as guests in the ongoing Copa America tournament in Chile, I am left bitterly disappointed.I was otherwise engaged and missed their first game against Uruguay which, by all...
When the squad for Jamaica's foray into the Copa America competition (for the first time, ever) was announced, no one in the world thought that Jamaica would win the tournament.After reading and listening to 'experts' in the print and electronic...
On Tuesday, June 16, I was filled with good intentions. I planned to watch Peter Phillips' much-hyped broadcast to the nation but, instead, I fell asleep. You see, Monday night, I'd been inveigled to play in a bridge tournament for the first time in...
It's crunch time. One in three adults worldwide is overweight, a pandemic of two billion people courting diabetes, stroke, pneumonia, heart disease and cancer. That's our top five killers lined up like the Grim Reaper's firing squad, with the entire...
The first official visit to Haiti by a French president on May 12 was a huge event, as historic as President Obama's visit to Jamaica. As in Kingston, Port-au-Prince came to a standstill. The anxiety of a small Caribbean nation providing security...
Positioning Jamaica as the fourth node in the global logistics chain is not a choice but an imperative if this tiny island nation is to have any chance of surviving this inhospitable global trading system. Jamaica's competitive advantage rests in...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently paid an official visit to Brazil, Columbia, Peru, and Chile, and signed more than 70 cooperation documents. It is worth noting that Premier Li has made a strong effort to introduce high-quality Chinese industrial...
In two previous articles I put forward valid reasons the single market and economy, the centrepiece of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, is unachievable, and suggested the need for CARICOM to be reconfigured and repurposed.The Gleaner, in its...
As Jamaicans, our team spirit is second to none. We know how to rally when the time comes. If you have had the pleasure of being in the National Stadium to watch a qualifying match with the Reggae Boyz, you know what I am talking about. It is...
Whoever said life has its ups and downs was referring more to my weight than my fate. I am a yo-yo or hi-lo dieter, constantly up and down the food and supermarket chains.Recently, when I returned to Trinidad, I found that my waistline was within...
Arlene Gaynor of the Universal Church accused me of writing a 'faithless article' and also alleged 'He clearly has no faith.' (Gleaner, June 12) because I said, "The greatest miracle is the resurrection which defines Christianity and we should not...
There has been a lot of talk over the last few weeks, especially in social and mainstream media, about transgender(ism), which is an umbrella term referring to persons whose gender identity is different from their biological sex. Biological sex is...
Proposals to update our traffic laws are confusing and need improvement. The letter ('Proposed traffic law changes confusing') by Patrick D. Robinson, published in The Gleaner of June 13, 2015, is revealing. He makes the valid observation that many...
Some fathers don't deserve a happy Father's Day. There was an exchange I once overheard. A woman said, "Pickney a problem," and a man in earshot retorted, "Only if you put dem pon yu head." It was a very loaded comment. One of complete apathy shared...
Last Saturday's running of the 95th Jamaica Derby, sponsored by Cal's Manufacturing Limited, was the best derby day that I have witnessed since my first in 1968.Carlton Watson, the owner of Cal's Manufacturing Limited, pulled out all the stops in...
Controlling body weight is really a matter of controlling body fat. The most important consideration for health is not total weight but body composition (proportion of fat to lean mass). Many persons who are 'overweight' are also 'over fat', and the...
The concise Oxford Dictionary defines greatness as having the size, amount, extent or intensity considerably above the normal or average. A search of Google spewed up the Wikepedia definition of greatness as a concept of a state of superiority...
