As we head towards the end of the year, many of us will soon be surrounded by our family and friends sat around dinner tables as we celebrate the festive season. Look around the table and reflect on the fact that, on average, every third woman you...
Here we go again. Another World Cup-magnitude political football game has started, with crime fighting as the ball, States of Public Emergency (SOEs) as one team’s main striker, and Nobby Stiles (remember him?) as the other’s bulldog defender....
Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson on Wednesday sai that roughly1,000 inmates are released from prison each year. He said of that number, 42 per cent will return to prison, most after committing a more violent crime Is it at all...
I was born, raised, schooled, and up to this point, live in the parish of St Thomas. This is the place where Paul Bogle is revered like a saint by many. Everyday, someone in the parish calls upon the power of this extraordinary man to prevail over...
Sustainable development has been featuring prominently in the media, dominated globally by Egypt hosting the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP27. At its November 7 opening...
Those who understand the value of land understand that it is the means to control the nation, its resources, its people. Who has the land can enjoy it for himself. Recent developments in the struggle over land should tell us where we are going as a...
As the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) prepares for the public rollout of its annual conference, one of the key questions that the party must ask itself is: Has any of the policies drafted in the last year made life better for a significant number of...
Recently, Jamaicans have grasped every opportunity to contest tribal squabbles about every societal dysfunction on display. For me, the week’s highlight was the taxi drivers’ “strike” to demand a ticket amnesty. Yes, THAT’s what it was all about...
The football World Cup in Qatar will be the first in 40 years not to feature one of the greatest footballers in history as a superstar or an exuberant fan. Argentina’s Diego Armando Maradona died two years ago this month at the age of 60. His...
BB was then my friend. Like me he was eight years old and hated one of his main evening chores; preparing hog food. I was then this skinny ‘town boy’ living with his parents, the Wallaces and the rest of their children in a sleepy village named...
This is the first of a two-part article highlighting the critical contribution of Dennis Scott to the creation of a Caribbean cultural aesthetic and the challenges currently confronting cultural creatives, which are barriers to the sustainable...
When I entered Cambridge University for my PhD in history after completing the BA and MPhil also in history, at The University of the West Indies, I did so during a period of heightened protest against the apartheid regime in South Africa, which I...
Well, whaddaya know? Americans flocked to the polls on Tuesday (many mailed in before then) and roundly rejected the Big Lie. As Joe Scarborough coined on Wednesday morning “Dobbs, Deniers, and Donald lifted the Democrats”. At time of writing (...
On March 23 this year, Prime Minister Holness told Prince William, the then Duke of Cambridge, and Kate Middleton, the then Duchess of Cambridge (now the Prince and Princess of Wales) that Jamaica was “moving on”. That comment was perhaps the...
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) and Future Africa recently partnered with the Sweden-based Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) to host a policy dialogue on “Fifteen Diplomats on A Powder Keg: Africa and...
Jamaicans who are economically secure and have sound health insurance plans do not utilise the services of government-run hospitals if illnesses require hospitalisation. The wealthy Jamaican, like the Jamaican politician’s first order of business...
The PNP seems determined to turn a once great political party into a persistently puerile poppy show. 2022 could easily be declared Call for Ministers Resignation Year. On August 16, after news of increased teacher migration, PNP education...
Our West Indies team performance throughout the qualifying series for the T20 World Cup was disgraceful, to say the least. It will be exceedingly difficult to put the shattered pieces together to start the painful process of rebuilding, rethinking...
What seems to be a common metaphor being played out on the Jamaica built and natural environment in agriculture and housing sectors affected by ‘informal’ and ‘squatter’ settlements also colluded development breaches inside established...
As usual, several storms brewed in Jamaica’s political teacups over the past couple of weeks. I am just picking a few for commentary that seem to be inadvertently connected. There was the visit of president of the Crown Council of the Federal...
Most Jamaicans will proudly claim their Christianity even if their real lives and actions are empty of one of the core beliefs of Christianity. Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Simple but not always attainable. I am an atheist,...
Since its formation in 1938, the People’s National Party (PNP) has been at the forefront of advocating and providing land for the landless. After the abolition of slavery, the newly freed slaves in Jamaica were compelled to seize Crown properties...
Jamaicans love farce. So the game of musical chairs being played at Downing Street has captured Jamaicans’ attention for a few weeks. Don’t you love farce? My fault, I fear I thought that you’d want what I want Sorry, my dear! But where...
And then there were three. On Tuesday, the UK announced that it was lifng visa requirements for Guyana, Peru, and Colombia. Those nations’ citizens may visit the UK for up to six months without a visa. The British Embassy in Colombia was quoted as...
The World Food Day 2022, observed on October 16, also commemorated the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), launched a call for action and global solidarity to transform agrifood...
