Either Daryl Vaz is engaged in political theatre or the Government has lost faith in the six highly respected and accomplished Jamaicans who were appointed to regulate the island’s public utilities. Or the minister doesn’t have a clear grasp of...
Vice-President Kamala Harris has taken a strong six-point lead in American public opinion polls over her frenetic opponent Donald Trump. The ABC News-Washington Post August 9-13 poll puts Harris at 51 per cent to Trump’s 45 per cent. This is truly...
The Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) now has a new chair. Barbados, it is understood, assumed that post as of July 1. The chair should be the Hon Kerrie Symmonds, MP, Minister of...
Politicians have earned a reputation for being dishonest, although, to be fair, we all lie. However, Donald Trump may very well be the most dishonest presidential candidate the United States (US), or any other country, has ever seen. Indeed,...
By the end of October, a little less than two and a half months from now, Jamaica’s local government authorities are, by law, to submit to the national minister their budgets for the next fiscal year, beginning April 2025. They include the...
From our comfortable armchairs in front of the television we rant and rave when our athletes fail to meet our unrealistic expectations. But as the great Herb McKenley once reminded us, “Brilliant execution (in athletics) is only part of the story....
Just asking: why would anyone join a gang when the fate of being “fatally arrested “or put “before their Maker” is increasingly likely as senior policemen and our prime minister have mandated? Not many people need fear being brought before a real...
August 19 to 25 is observed as annual cardiopulmonary week. The aim of this initiative by Heart Foundation of Jamaica is to educate and advocate for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the general population. Statistics from the US indicate...
If we understand Prime Minister Andrew Holness correctly, building a modern maximum security prison is not a top priority of his administration. Mr Holness has two concerns. One is cost. Prisons are expensive. So, constructing one now would divert...
I used to travel when I was a student, and during the course of those travels it became easier for me to identify Jamaica to foreigners. I recall in 1970s, amid wars and tension in Algeria, I had the opportunity to visit Ghardaïa, one of five ksour...
This newspaper celebrates with the residents of Richmond Park, St Andrew, what is a rare victory for communities, of having the city’s local government halt an unauthorised development of a used car dealership in the area. We also note the...
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Inna March 1923, di Kingston Division fi di Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) buy one building a 76 King Street fi dem headquarters. Ascorden to di website fi Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey, “it...
If one has ever spent quality time with homicide investigators or frontline police officers, pursuing criminal elements on operations, it would be easy to understand their discomfort, when well-thinking, enraged and outraged members of the...
Despite decades of gang-related and reprisal killings, despite the hundreds of lives lost to ‘senseless violence’ annually, and cumulative tens of thousands of lives brutally extinguished over decades, it took the shock of the octuple murder (a...
E-Learning Jamaica has donated 200 laptops to the Jamaica Library Service (JLS) and during the official hand-over ceremony earlier this week, it was announced that another 200 laptops would be delivered during the current fiscal year in the...
Discussions on deep-sea mining (DSM) at Part II of the 29th Session of the International Seabed Authority in Kingston, Jamaica that concluded on August 2. Highlighted are a few of the significant developments coming out of the meetings: •...
At the funeral of the company’s boss, a disgruntled employee knelt next to the coffin and whispered, “Who’s thinking outside the box now, Gary?” A cartoonist was found dead in his home – the details are sketchy. What is well known from the fifth...
Steve McClaren made a number of sensible observations at his introduction last week as the coach of Jamaica’s national men’s football team. One of them was that there was a significant amount of footballing talent on the island. Which, of course,...
On the night before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an investment banker ran into car trouble while driving through Central Park in New York. Apparently, the transmission of his new BMW got stuck in first gear and he needed to get it checked out. He...
I would like to believe Prime Minister Holness that his government has finally decided to launch a “total assault on gangs” across the island, and that the “Government will use this opportunity to deal with the gangs once and for all”. Should...
On July 20, 2024, the Lancet journal of the United Kingdom – one of the world’s most respected medical journals – published a very sobering article on the human carnage that is c | urrently taking place in Gaza. The article was entitled ‘Counting...
CHERRY TREE Lane, a little-known community in the hinterlands of Clarendon that, prior to last Sunday, would have slipped under everyone’s radar as a place of influence in Jamaica, land we love. But almost overnight, Cherry Tree Lane has moved up...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is – as are all well-thinking Jamaicans – rightly outraged by Sunday night’s acts of terrorism in the Four Paths area of the south-central parish of Clarendon, in which eight people were killed. That, in this...
As I begin my diplomatic assignment in Jamaica, it is notable that August is a special month for both countries. Not only do we celebrate our independence from colonial rule, but we also commemorate our historical ties, having established...
Predictably, some anti-CCJ campaigners latched onto last week’s immigration problems in Port of Spain by the dancehall DJ, Rodney Price, as a case against Jamaica’s recommended accession to the civil and criminal jurisdictions of the Caribbean...
