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Published:Monday | February 19, 2024 | 12:07 AM

The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) should not waste the opportunity to use its diamond jubilee, the celebration of which its president, Leighton Johnson, launched last week, to assert its place as a thinking institution in the vanguard of...

Published:Monday | February 19, 2024 | 12:06 AM

Mary, aged 58, has been the financial controller at Carryon Ltd for the past 10 years, coordinating and directing the preparation of budgets and financial forecasts for the company. For the past year, it was becoming evident to Mary that the...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2024 | 12:13 AM

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Pon February 9, 2024, dis a wa Nationwide Radio post pon fi dem Instagram page: “In public opinion today we ask, ‘ Cindy or Rita?’ Comment below...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2024 | 12:13 AM

Someone in the Government, perhaps the energy minister, Daryl Vaz, ought to take Jamaicans into their confidence about its policy for the state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam. Nearly five years ago, in the aftermath of the scandals over alleged...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2024 | 12:13 AM

In Ireland, where Bob Marley’s father came from, the word means a close friend, an ally, or at the risk of offending my Jamaican friends, a good buddy who has your back. However, in Jamaica, unless it is preceded by the word team or class, ‘mate’...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

Once again there has been much discussion about constitutional reform in Jamaica. One issue surrounding our constitutional arrangements is that of the removal of the King of England as our head of state and becoming a republic. Any change to our...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

There’s no point in reading this because it’s a total waste of time, Nothing that has been penned has prevented any crime. Nothing that has been written has righted any wrong, Not one single change of heart, it’s been futile all along. There’s no...

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2024 | 12:06 AM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF’s) recently announced ‘40 in 40 days’ initiative seems to be sending a signal that social media and its various platforms could become a vital part of the country’s crime-fighting infrastructure. All aspects...

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2024 | 12:06 AM

This year, 2024, is the Chinese Year of the Dragon and many of us are hoping that, unlike other mythical fire-breathing animals, it won’t drag on and on. For most people, the old year ended on December 21, 2023. At midnight, we welcomed the new...

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2024 | 12:06 AM

In today’s complex global landscape, peace and prosperity face significant threats due to a blatant disregard for international law and the meticulously constructed human rights framework established since the aftermath of World War II. This...

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:06 AM

As I drove home from church last Wednesday, three people I encountered asked me what happened to my forehead. “Where did you put your head?” asked the lady gas pump attendant with the pretty smile. “Were you working on a car?” joked Charlie....

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:06 AM

In some sense, you are smarter than your great grandparents, who were smarter than their great grandparents, who were smarter than their great grandparents. This is the trend known as the Flynn Effect, first identified by James Flynn four decades...

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:06 AM

Mark Golding is right about Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ duty to explain how his government will fund the planned increase of the income tax threshold, which he signalled last week while campaigning for the local government elections. But that...

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 12:10 AM

Unless he has changed his mind about serving a third term, Antony Anderson will step down as Jamaica’s police chief sometime in April. Sadly, not only is there no serious public discussion of his possible successor, there is no obviously...

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2024 | 9:29 AM

LAST WEEK I came across a post by Cindy Breakspeare, the mother of popular reggae artiste Damian Marley, one of Bob Marley’s children. It was made on what would have been Bob’s 79th birthday and included multiple photographs of her and Bob and...

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 12:07 AM

TWO IS better than too many. If you lived in the 1980s then surely you remember this most effective campaign slogan by the National Family Planning Board (NFPB), as it tried to tame population growth by insisting that, quite literally, two is the...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 1:21 AM

They already know the facts, but it would do no harm, and hopefully help, if Jamaican policymakers, including Prime Minister Andrew Holness, read and absorbed Alexis Bonte’s article in this newspaper on Monday. Afterwards, Mr Holness should direct...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 1:21 AM

The China-Russia led BRICS bloc is expanding at a very dramatic pace at a time when the capitalist world economy is facing a deepened crisis. According to Golding Sachs, many of the BRICS countries have a faster rate of economic growth than...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 12:06 AMElizabeth Morgan - Columnist

This month, a number of meetings of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the related Caribbean OACPS Forum (CARIFORUM) are scheduled. These are related to the implementation of the new EU/OACPS Samoa Agreement,...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 12:09 AM

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its associated technologies have cemented their place in most of our industries. AI is now a force that many companies are embracing for its transformative capabilities while others are worried about its potential...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 12:06 AM

“Take out a half sheet a paper!” Those dreaded words, delivered in a thick New York accent, were my Campion physics teacher’s (the brilliant Fr. Alfred O. Winshman) regular opening when he planned a pop quiz. He had the knack of predicting when we’...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 12:06 AM

Hopefully, it has not just fallen through the cracks or become just another of those Jamaican nine-day wonders. But it is more than three years since the delivery of the report, commissioned by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes, on ways to better manage...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 12:06 AM

In recent days, the Caribbean region has taken a monumental step towards addressing one of its most pressing challenges, ensuring food and security for its people. The launch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 38th...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 12:06 AM

C. Dennis Morrison epitomised the flourishing of black professional talent in the early post-Independence period. Born in a two-parent family devoted to public service and who would sacrifice everything to assure the character-building and...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 7:50 AM

One of the sorry facts of the government’s bad decision to saddle the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) with the job of the political ombudsman – and the commission’s equally bad choice of accepting – is the shifting premise upon which it...

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