The United States and our democratic partners are committed to driving global technology and innovation.Together, we must work to shape the evolution of digital and emerging technologies in a way that serves our people and upholds our democratic...
The earliest personality trait openly demonstrated by Donald Trump was his cruelty. Encouraging his supporters in 2016 to be physically aggressive towards harmless hecklers, inviting law enforcement to be rough on those arrested, mocking the...
In the context of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples observed on August 9, it is imperative to reflect on the confluence between environmental preservation, the emergence of the bioeconomy, and the intrinsic rights of Amazonian indigenous...
Gone are the days of passive involvement. The importance of patient engagement and empowerment is paramount in getting the care you need and deserve. By actively participating in your healthcare, you can make informed decisions, prevent potential...
As Jamaicans celebrate another year of political independence, some time should also be taken for sombre reflection on the nation’s history. In my work as a historian, I have had the opportunity to read documents that Britain secretly removed from...
Following the major pollution incident in the Rio Cobre in July 2022, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) decided to investigate the efficacy of the environmental water-quality monitoring conducted by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) and the...
On July 17, nearly one year after it was signed in Istanbul, Russia decided to not renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI) that allows Ukraine to export agricultural goods to global markets. As underlined by the secretary general of the UN,...
Mr Isat Buchanan, is it at all possible that in the last few days you have revisited the innards of your brain and concluded that you dealt a most painful blow to younger Jamaicans who considered you, a well-known attorney at law, as heroic...
Despite the best efforts of Little Youth to keep the week’s headlines deeply mired in the political gutter, the Reggae Girlz saved our blushes. But, believe you me, Little Youth made a sincere effort to press ahead with his Party’s apparent...
Five months before the February 29, 1989 elections the monster Hurricane Gilbert had ripped through Jamaica like an industrial chainsaw. Carl Stone’s latest poll was showing that Seaga’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would be forced to deal with the...
It has been 185 years since Emancipation was granted in much of the English-speaking Caribbean, not the scam of the Apprenticeship system, but true freedom in 1838 from centuries of chattel enslavement. Around the Caribbean we celebrate during this...
Last week, while essentially categorizing JLP/PNP as no better herring; no better barrel, I accused PNP of trying to lose the next election by prioritising disunity and JLP of the same by trying to neuter the Integrity Commission. Well, apologies...
June 2023 was recorded as the hottest June on record with July as the hottest month in recorded climate history. July 3 marked the hottest day ever recorded. Record-breaking triple-digit temperatures and wildfires in parts of the United States...
Jamaica recently refused to grant immunity to the partner of a diplomat from the United States (US) because the couple is involved in a same-sex union. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) explained that to grant the immunity...
With the Independence and Emancipation holidays season just around the corner, one would have hoped that we could take a break from our habitual ‘cass-cass’ without having to contend with any more surprises being added to those cantankerous issues...
During my brief hiatus from boring you to tears I was forcibly reminded that, as a child, I was a UK subject. I read the best UK literature including Dickens, Tennyson, Austen, Burns and Shaw. But I always preferred humour so gravitated towards...
“This demonstrates bias, malice, and prejudice. This demonstrates that the investigative process of the Integrity Commission is unfair or biased and shows a lack of even-handedness as they act differently in certain circumstances, depending on...
France often likes to pride itself as the heir of progressive regicidal revolutionaries, as enshrined in its national motto: liberté, égalité and fraternité (liberty, equality and fraternity). The recent riots in the country have, however, exposed...
On July 4, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of its existence, and the news coming out of the 45th Heads of Government Conference held at the birth place of the regional integration movement, in...
On July 21, The Gleaner published an article entitled “Windalco bauxite levy relief will save jobs - Clarke.” How long will the Government of Jamaica continue to prop up the aluminium industry in Jamaica? Bauxite levy waivers, duty waivers, no...
It was a normal day in violent political times as master pollster Carl Stone closed his gate and walked towards his beat-up VW Beetle. About a chain in the distance, on the same side of the crescent where he parked the car, was a man walking, to...
“If you want a truly representative and effective Parliament that acts on behalf of the people of Jamaica and not in the interest of their political party, we have to cut the umbilical cord of politics,” said Dr D.K. Duncan in 1993. The umbilical...
Within the Christian community, perspectives on abortion and buggery vary, reflecting diverse interpretations of biblical teachings and moral principles. In Jamaica, these views overwhelmingly align with the pro-life and anti-buggery rhetoric,...
It is not just your imagination. These days are way hotter than they were five decades ago. And although President Donald Trump demonstrated that climate change denial is a political thing, global temperature increases have exploded the myth that...
The recent SIDS Ministerial Conference on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health in Barbados yielded an important outcome document: the 2023 Bridgetown Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health. However, while reflecting the concern of SIDS...
