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Venezuela has claimed a large swathe of Guyana known as the Essequibo region since the 19th century as its own, rejecting the borders decided by international arbitrators in 1899.

It’s probably too late to expect Nicolás Maduro to do the right thing and abandon Wednesday’s referendum asking Venezuelans to pronounce on their country’s claim to two-thirds of Guyana. But, as he pursues this rash policy, we hope that Mr Maduro...
On November 15, the 27 member states of the European Union signed the Samoa Agreement in Apia, Samoa.

The kerfuffle over Jamaica signing the Samoa Agreement between the members of the European Union (EU) and the members of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) has led me to get a copy of the text and to read what it...
File photo of lottery tickets. Kristen Gyles writes: .. true or not, gambling-related marketing and advertisements tend to be misleading or untruthful.

Whether it’s as mild as “Smoking can be hazardous to your health” or as piercing as “Smoking kills”, almost all cigarette packets today bear a label notifying potential buyers of the risks associated with smoking. Notwithstanding, smoking is still...

The short-term political and economic impulses for the Government’s steep reduction in fares charged by the state-owned bus company are obvious. And the move is likely to be popular. Already, the cuts have been embraced by the political...

What do we do when we live in a constitutional democracy and those we have elected and employed to act on our behalf operate in a manner that opposes the very tenets of the constitution and the principles of our democracy? What do we do when our...

It’s time for another visit to favourite fantasyland, Apocrypha, where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solves political dilemmas by parable. Regular readers remember Oma, a former finance minister, who, like a moon, is bright only in the...

Recently, I posted a question on my Facebook page, “Why are so many people who express pro-Palestinian sentiments being censored?” In a conversation with one of my Facebook friends about the post, I mentioned that you can get in trouble for flying...

It is Lord Reed’s right, if he so pleases, to inject himself into the debate over the future of the Privy Council as Jamaica’s final court, and to impugn the arguments of former brothers of the Bench. But in throwing old colleagues under the bus,...

Mention was made in a previous writing about the low appreciation of the value of moral capital in Jamaica. In fact, many question the existence of such a thing. After all, “money talks, s--- walks”. For others, when you have political power, or...

Phillip Williams, in a letter to the editor dated October 27 titled, ‘Ban on recruitment will hurt students the most’, declares that, if schools were prevented from bringing in children based on their sports ability (in other words, if schools were...
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