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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...
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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...
In the Town and Country Planning Act, the term “development” refers to the carrying out of building, engineering, mining, or other operations in, on, over, or under land, and includes making any material change in the use of buildings or other land...
Students of Spanish Town Primary School turned up for the new school year Monday to a warm, enthusiastic welcome from the teaching staff. Images of dancing teachers with broad smiles were on full display, as they declared their readiness to take...
The first draft of this article was scripted months before Beryl’s arrival and therefore should not be read as a reaction to the performance of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) in its wake. However, Beryl has substantiated the argument for the...
Paying Jamaica’s teachers better may, indeed, help to keep them in the island’s classrooms, as their leaders say. However, what has been missing so far from their argument are the deliverables teachers are willing to provide for this greater...
Recently, while clearing my phone of photographs and videos that had been accumulated on the device, I came across an interesting cartoon. It depicted a sinking ship with three rats. Two of the rodents were at the helm of the ship. A third was seen...
Ten months ago, most onlookers assumed that ordinary global citizens could do nothing to impact the future of Palestinians. A tiny, yet impactful, minority thought otherwise. Today, a seismic transformation in the geopolitical landscape is...
Often, eulogies inflate the virtues and achievements of their subjects, even of great men. Hardly can such a claim be made about Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, a Guyanese by birth, West Indian by inclination, and a committed global citizen, who died on...
Every Jamaican must feel proud that one of us has been found worthy, amid global competition, to be appointed to such a high office at the International Monetary Fund. This whether or not you are satisfied with the fund’s prescriptions for our...
