“Gen-Z wants Kamala Harris to win,” noted a political observer who preferred to remain anonymous. “She’s definitely a better option than Trump, but we’re tired of choosing between the lesser of two evils,” MK, a young female economist and...
Published:Wednesday | October 16, 2024 | 12:07 AMElizabeth Morgan
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IMPACTS PRODUCTIVITY I have been following the discussions about turning the Emancipation and Independence public holidays into a long weekend to improve productivity in Jamaica. If I recall correctly, this proposal was...
How exciting to be here in Jamaica this week – not only a beautiful tropical island, but a country that’s also a great and long-standing friend of the UK. With 800,000 Jamaicans living in the UK – in London, Birmingham and Bristol in particular –...
Recently, I decided to decrease my social media usage and interactions, and I realised that doing so resulted in an improvement of my mental well-being. My stress level is lower, and I am not surprised. The effects of social media on mental health...
This newspaper shares Mark Smith’s, the teachers’ union president, reservation over the recruitment of pastors to fill a shortage of religious education teachers in Jamaica’s schools if their enlistment is merely because of their supposed knowledge...
We support the latest initiatives announced by the education ministry aimed at turning around the dismal performance by Jamaican students in mathematics in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams. But even if – as the education...
I was in shock reading a letter published on September 26 titled, ‘Jamaica gov’t must decide its position on Israel Palestine conflict’, by Wayne West. Grounded on religious extremism and fallacies it exposed an uninformed writer displaying scant...
My boy Jason is one of the lucky ones. Although he lives three taxi rides from his new high school, costing $450 each way, his parents have a combined weekly income of around $40,000 and it is only Jason and his sister who have to be put out to...
We are here again, once more. Events beyond our immediate control are projected to have a significantly adverse impact on economic growth, and, by extension on the Government’s revenues. The impact of this growth shock is such that we will need to...
Having heard it directly from Enrique Peñalosa, maybe Jamaica’s policymakers and municipal leaders will now be inclined to rethink how they organise the island’s cities and towns and structure transport systems. Hopefully, they are convinced of...
Walking hundreds of miles in shackles, stored like pigs in the dungeons of the Cape Coast Castle for three months and more, we endured months-long odysseys in the hold of deep ships, packed like sardines but smelling infinitely worse. After...
Many years ago, I saw a middle-aged female patient for, what appeared to be, a fairly active postnasal [sinus] drainage. I prescribed medication for her, and she was for review in two weeks. However, after one week had passed, she returned to...
We observed World Mental Health Day on October 10, and we have been reminded that mental-health challenges can touch many families and communities. For most people, mental-health care is about ensuring that those who suffer receive the treatment...
Reports that a National Works Agency (NWA) crew had to flee Mandela Highway because of menacing extortionists reveals how much of a criminal dilemma this country faces. The team was reportedly doing preparatory work for impending repairs under the...
On Tuesday, October 8, I went to a meeting at the World Bank and listened with growing disappointment to a presentation on ‘Taxing wealth for equity and growth’, supposedly focused on Latin America and the Caribbean region. I was less disappointed...
The idiom “blowing your own trumpet” means to boast about your achievements or abilities in a way that makes you proud as punch. Unfortunately, when Donald Trump shows his personal Trumpet, people laugh at his front from behind his back. Actually,...
For some time now I have been interested in what is called the “Right to Privacy”, and how it relates to the “Right to Know”. For example, do I have the “right to know” that my child’s teacher is a convicted child molester, or does the “right to...
Adolf Hiter we know much about, but Adolf Eichmann was another, less known Nazi German who was pivotal in the mass extermination of Jews during the Holocaust. His role involved the identification, and eventually, the transportation of Jews from...
Though elicited at a press conference, this newspaper welcomes Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon’s declaration of the Government’s support for a free and independent media and her implicit condemnation of the political targeting of six of The...
That close to 400 Jamaican schools now have wheelchair ramps is a welcome development in the right direction. It deserves recognition. But even as this advance is celebrated, it must be acknowledged that there is still much ground to cover – not...
THE RECENT incident involving an AI-assisted video accusing the RJRGLEANER Communications Group of bias in its reporting, highlights the dangers we face in this ever- evolving digital landscape. The video, which the group’s chief executive officer...
THE THIRD week of September 2024, for Israel, Lebanon and Syria, is already history. The world awoke to new dimensions in fighting wars. The Israelis, in a brilliant demonstration of new thinking, took the Gaza conflict into the ‘bodies and souls’...
This newspaper prefers to assume that the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has a problem of communication, lest we conclude that it lacks a sense of history and sociological sensibilities. Having arrived at this position, we are...
“Childhood cancer does not discriminate. The only thing that is sure is that more children will be diagnosed each year.” I was privileged to have been invited to be the guest speaker at the University Hospital of the West Indies’ annual...
It was recently reported that Jamaica, through its development plan, Vision 2030 Jamaica, will not achieve its goal of development status by its target date of 2030. The plan had envisioned Jamaica achieving developed country status within 21 years...
