As a gynaecologist, certain instruments are essential to my practice: vaginal speculums, my ultrasound machine, and my iPod. Yes. My iPod. The device is never far from me, and it contains more than 15,000 songs of different genres. In addition, all...
I absolutely enjoyed comedian Michelle Wolf’s presentation at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Wolf took shots at several targets, including herself (referring to her hair, small breasts and voice), journalists and Democrats...
April is Cancer Awareness Month, and this year the focus is on cervical cancer. Being a gynaecologist, this is right up my alley, literally and figuratively. I always get excited speaking about this type of cancer, because it is the only one that...
One day at my office, a patient visited me for her annual gynaecological examination. I discovered that she had a vaginal infection, prescribed medication for her, and advised her to abstain from sex until after the course of treatment was...
Peter Bunting and Garnett Roper’s recent remarks likening the Jamaica Labour Party’s Dr Nigel Clarke to a black Englishman aspiring to be “black royalty” have created a firestorm. They have received a deluge of scathing...
Father Fernando Karadima appeared to be a really cool guy. A very popular figure in Chile, he was a spiritual leader and father figure for many young men in Santiago, the nation’s capital. Based in the parish Parroquia El Bosque, he mingled...
Published:Sunday | September 17, 2017 | 12:11 PMMichael Abrahams
Our society is broken. Crime, violence and corruption are taking a formidable toll on us. If you are a Jamaican living in Jamaica and have never been a victim of a violent crime, it is almost a certainty that you know people who have. We complain...
On the night of July 9 last year, three-year-old Nevalesia Campbell in Orange Hill, St Ann, went missing. The gruesome discovery of the child’s body in a gully the next morning sent ripples of shock, anger and disgust across the country. She...
In 2014 when Arnaldo Brown, former minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in the People’s National Party (PNP) administration, racked up a million-dollar phone bill, there was a huge outcry, and rightly so. Our...
I don’t like the word ‘promiscuous’. It sounds rather judgemental to me. I recall someone defining a promiscuous person as "someone who has more sex than me", which made me laugh, but also understand the point being made...
A female friend of mine used to tell me, many years ago, that "people do the best they know how". She would often say this during discussions about people who exhibited offensive or antisocial behaviour, and I would challenge her by...
Women. Damn, I love them. They are the most wonderful and fascinating inhabitants of the planet.But why are women so mean to one another? James Brown sang, "It's a man's, man's, man's world," and it's true. Men are in charge of the third rock from...
As times change, so does fashion. We had the miniskirt in the sixties, and the Afro was everywhere in the seventies, being gradually replaced in the eighties by 'big hair'. Some fashion trends seem to last, like mini skirts. I don’t think that I...
Sex is a wonderful thing, and people everywhere are doing it. For most who voluntarily engage, it is one of the most enjoyable activities on Earth, and possibly on other planets as well. There are many different types of sex and sexual activites,...
Humans have made tremendous advances during our time on the planet. We are able to converse with people in distant places on handheld devices while looking at their faces on small screens. We can travel by land, sea or air rapidly and with ease, and...
Cervical cancer continues to be a major health issue. Worldwide, it is both the fourth-most common cause of cancer and the fourth-most common cause of death from cancer in women. But the malady is easily avoidable. The Pap smear is a test that has...
The Tambourine Army describes itself as a “radical social-justice movement committed to uprooting the scourge of sexual violence and safeguarding the rights of women and girls”. Co-founder Latoya Nugent was arrested last week and...
What would life be like without humour and laughter? Very boring, huh? We know that they help us to navigate our way through this cruel world by helping us to cope with stress, and that they make us feel good. But what is underappreciated is the...
I have a very uneasy feeling about Donald Trump’s presidency, and the possible consequences of his actions have already begun to concern me. Trump’s mantra is ‘America First’, but he shows blatant disregard for certain...
The Moravian Church sex scandal has escalated a national conversation on the sexual abuse of children. The story reads like a sordid soap opera, with allegations and revelations being spat out at maddening velocity. Apart from the alleged victims...
I was raised as a Christian and embraced the faith for many years. During this time, I read the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, rejecting all other religions as bogus, believing that Christianity was the only true pathway to God and...
A Jamaican church lobby has forced the publishers of the 2017 Yellow Pages to produce an alternative cover of the telephone directory because of an "offensive" dancehall depiction it says is spreading "wrong" values. One of the...
To say that the People’s National Party (PNP) ran an ineffective campaign leading up to the last general election would be a gross understatement. Shambolic and arrogant would be a more appropriate description of the circus that transpired....
