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Jamaicans concerned with the state of the island’s education system will welcome Mark Smith’s latest intervention into the debate on the issue, hoping it marks the start of a serious and sustained effort by the teachers’ union to the crisis, or...
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Everyone is busy saying goodbye to Finance Minister Nigel Clarke and hurrying him on to his date with destiny. I share in the good wishes and the enormous pride that Jamaicans have in this appointment. In my memory, which stretches back quite a...
My Yute, who is entering Grade 8 (second form) at a non-traditional high school, has been told that his class will be doing 17 subjects this academic year. His book and materials list exceed in size, weight and cost the load which university...
David Riley, the technical leader for Jamaica’s team at the World Under-20 championships in Lima, Peru, wants “some tweaking” in how athletes are prepared for these kinds of games. “We have to look at it and see how we get our training programmes...
Forgive my naivete, but I honestly believed that given that the concert is titled ‘Freedom Street’, then just as the ‘World Boss’ himself is free, so should be all other ‘bleachers’. At US$125 per person, these cheapest seats are J$4,000 higher...
On the morning of September 4, Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, received an anonymous ominous phone call informing them that there would be shootings at five schools and that Apalachee would be the first. Mid-morning, 14-year-old Colt Gray...
The appointment of Dr Nigel Clarke as a deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a signal achievement by, and honour for, him. Dr Clarke skilfully continued an IMF programme forced on Dr Peter Phillips, who took the...
Every minute, a person dies of AIDS somewhere in the world. It’s unsurprising then that the recently published 2024 Global AIDS Report, titled The Urgency of Now: AIDS at the Crossroads, highlighted a grim reality: that the world continues to be...
Mere weeks after Ugandan Rebecca Cheptegei exhibited her athletic prowess and grit at the Paris Olympics, the 33-year-old marathon runner is dead. She was doused with gasolene and ignited by a former boyfriend. The tragic event unfolded in...
In the 1970s, as newly independent nations in the Caribbean, Africa, and the Pacific sought to shape their economic futures, the world they confronted was still very much dominated by their former colonial powers in Europe, and the global reach of...
One of my colleagues on Facebook posted, “Kamamega woman sent away after eating chicken part meant for husband”. The story was that of a 32 year-old woman in Matungu which is (wait for this) in Kakamega County, Kenya. My first thought was asking, “...
This newspaper is happy for the people who live in North East St Ann. We are not so for the constituents of South Trelawny. On September 21 they will have been without a member of parliament for a year, since the resignation of their MP, Marisa...
When I wrote last week, Nigel Clarke had just announced his intention to resign his positions in Jamaica to take up a job in Washington, DC. This week Marsha Smith resigned with immediately effect as member of parliament for St Ann North East....
Over two billion metric tons of unsustainable, human-generated waste are thrown away globally every year, entering our environment and polluting every ecosystem around the world. If we continue practising waste management strategies as we do today...
Kristalina Georgieva’s recruitment of Nigel Clarke as one of her deputies at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has spawned something of a spectator sport in Kingston: everyone is guessing about who will replace Dr Clarke as Jamaica’s finance...
LAST WEEK’S article took aim at the contentious issue of marriages in Jamaica and explored further, the growing divide between young men and women as it relates to relationships and children. The article examined how other parts of the world are...
