The media river is in a spate with misinformation, and, unfortunately, I am trying to swim upstream, an impossible task when ignorance abounds. The party leaders’ performance ratings should be compared, since these are the two choices the voters...
“Yu nebba see sumoke widout fiyah” proverb translates from Jamaican into “you never see smoke without fire”. The emancipation of enslaved Africans across British territories became effective August 1, 1834. ‘The-Gleaner-and-Weekly-Compendium-of-...
In a TVJ Sports exposé September 25-26 delivered by sports reporter Jordan Forte, psychologist Olivia Rose and Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison revealed some of the formidable psychological hurdles, pressures, faced by sports recruits...
T his is the second part of the interview with Charles Gladstone (CG), great, great grandson of the youngest child of enslaver John Gladstone, father of a 19th century British prime minister, William Gladstone, with Verene Shepherd (VS) about his...
In the age of climate crisis, we need collaborative efforts to meet pressing environmental challenges. We must bring together diverse stakeholders to exchange ideas, share knowledge, encourage impactful solutions, and advocate policy change. We...
The last time I had reason to visually scan a job description was in the 1970s when I stopped off briefly at the eight-to-four bus stop. My job description came in two parts. The first part bullet-pointed the specific duties. The second part was a...
Summer is officially over so Jamaica is currently knee deep in a flood of waste material produced by a new political silly season. The first emission was an ill-conceived ultimatum issued to Government by His Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition (...
Valiant, rising dancehall star, provides us with episodic insights into a world many older Jamaicans may not fully understand, nor even imagine. Capturing the popular imagination, the word ‘dunce’ has become a brand linked to schoolchildren and is...
The education system in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region has long been a topic of discussion, with both successes and challenges. One of the persistent issues that have plagued these educational institutions is the practice commonly referred...
In recent years, the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has seen a worrying increase in hunger figures, especially among the poorest in the region. When we talk about food insecurity in our region, as in the rest of the world, we...
In an article published in the Sunday Gleaner of July 30, titled ‘The Potential of Nuclear Energy as Part of the Future Energy Mix in Jamaica’, Oshane Hamilton explored the viability of integrating nuclear energy into Jamaica’s energy landscape....
On September 15, Professor Verene Shepherd (VS) had a frank e-conversation with Charles Gladstone (CG), the great, great-grandson of the youngest child of enslaver John Gladstone, father of a 19th-century British prime minister, William Gladstone....
In July, 37 Haitians landed in Portland on Jamaica’s east coast. This was followed by 36 refugees seeking sanctuary on September 9. Current crisis conditions of life in the Haitian republic galvanised these 67 desperate men, women and children to...
A few political pundits who I spoke to after the huge salary increase self-served on a platter to Cabinet members and other parliamentarians was percolating throughout the society, we figured that an increase in senators fees was not very far...
So a parliamentarian is finally named in the proper context namely that she’s to be charged for corruption related offences. As I’ve previously written “I don’t care who is “investigating” whom for what. If the investigation reveals enough EVIDENCE...
The Mining Act of 1947 is the main Jamaican law governing compensation for disturbance of surface rights and damage to land or property as a result of bauxite mining and processing. The law does not cover health impacts or the effects of social...
It began with key government personnel openly and repeatedly castigating the Integrity Commission (IC) as if that body’s operations – examinations, investigations into the political directorate - were somehow out of synch with good governance....
It is with grave concern that the Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control noted an article in the Sunday Gleaner of September 17, which quoted the leading tobacco company in Jamaica as saying: “By 2025 we want to be the leader in nicotine. We are...
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, marked by grave economic, environmental, and security crises that transcend global boundaries, it’s abundantly clear that our interdependence is an undeniable reality. These challenges loom large as...
Sociologists and medical specialists who are experts in studying the human condition are quite familiar with the sentiment as best expressed in the old 1969 film, The Desperate Mission. “Freedom is a powerful wine. It makes new tyrants out of old...
There’s a new wave of American sitcoms that seem to be actively discarding cardboard stereotypes formerly used for easy laughs. Instead these new sitcoms rely on intelligent, creative writing and directorial styles establishing a hybrid look...
CAPRI’s 2020 study on Jamaica’s violent gangs, Guns Out: The Splintering of Jamaica’s Gangs – https://shorturl.at/ixLX5, repeated the commonly held premise that Jamaica suffers from a “culture of violence”. Ongoing work in the security field has...
The happenings in Jamaica of the last two weeks confirm two truths about us as a society: we can really major in the minor while being alarmist. Second, politics is more theatre than reality, more theatrics than substance. And apologies to those in...
Integral to the development of orderly and prosperous societies are organisations that support, regulate, and hold accountable providers of essential goods and services. These entities are particularly essential nodes in societies in transition...
Former French president François Mitterrand (1981-1995) prophetically noted in 1957: “Without Africa, France will no longer have a history in the 21st century.” From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French slave traders operating out of the ports of...
