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Published:Sunday | December 24, 2023 | 6:17 AM

Sixty-seven year old Jim Thomas (not his real name) literally didn’t know what hit him. It was early afternoon, and as he was about to cross the road, his first step found him tossed about five feet away on the sidewalk and sprawled on one side. A...

Published:Sunday | December 24, 2023 | 6:17 AM

Any investigator worth his or her forensic audit salt should have gasped in disbelief at the news of theft of five computers at the fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Why would the theft of computers at SSL be of any particular concern...

Published:Sunday | December 24, 2023 | 6:17 AM

The evocative idea of the darkest hour being just before dawn was coined by Thomas Fuller almost 700 years ago in his religious treatise A Pisgah Sight of Palestine. While acceptable as a literary device, it is a literal inaccuracy since the...

Published:Sunday | December 17, 2023 | 12:09 AM

Let us begin by understanding what is decent work. It involves jobs in which employees • are productive - produce goods and services that result in customer satisfaction. • are adequately compensated. • enjoy healthy and safe working...

Published:Sunday | December 17, 2023 | 12:08 AM

In March 2009, 20-year-old Ricardo Johnson (a.k.a. “Trooper”) was shot and killed on Marl Road, Olympic Gardens. In November 2017, after a trial lasting over a month including testimony from seven witnesses, Dancehall’s “Don Gorgon” Ninjaman (...

Published:Sunday | December 17, 2023 | 12:08 AM

Each day, key people in Government have to talk with the security experts in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), and together, they devise the best stopgap measure to ensure that we hold together for 24 hours....

Published:Sunday | December 10, 2023 | 12:07 AM

Government’s fawning at the feet of Jamaica’s latest political masters caused it to rush to Israel’s “defence” after the October 7 Hamas’ terrorist attack. Two months later, as Israel’s genocidal over-reaction continued unabated, Government...

Published:Sunday | December 10, 2023 | 12:06 AM

In a bygone era of my life, the symphony of collaboration had resonated harmoniously with the brilliant Dr Joan Spencer (Rowe) Ernandez, a luminary I met at the Mico CARE centre. Alongside us stood the astute data analyst, David Noel, forming a...

Published:Sunday | December 10, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Is it possible for this small country to absorb any more embarrassment? First Stocks and Securities (SSL) was infiltrated by a person or a compendium of individuals months ago. At that time, very few of us would have even heard of the investment...

Published:Sunday | December 10, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Long before Gaza, a genocide was being perpetrated right next door against the Haitian people by vicious gangs sustained by a criminal and illegitimate government and their foreign hegemonic backers, who are maintaining an illegal dictator in...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 12:07 AM

Last month I attended the media launch of the 20th staging of the Wesley Powell Benjamins Track...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 12:07 AM

At the outset of this Israel versus Hamas conflict I wrote it wouldn’t be solved by “picking sides” (October 15; Cleaning up the border mess). Those “sides” are Israel and Hamas who have been at each other’s throats for decades. Before that...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 12:06 AM

November 25 marked the annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and the start of 16 Days of Activism that will climax with the observance of International Human Rights Day on December 10. In sharp contrast,...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 12:06 AM

An undercurrent of seismic upheaval has been set in motion. Recent months have witnessed a subtle but discernible surge in seismic activities, an uptick, sending tremors of concern throughout the country. Are we on the brink of a major earthquake...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Recently, I posted an item on TikTok which spoke about a Jamaican friend of mine who works and lives in Florida. He spoke about spending Thanksgiving holiday time with a close relative and her family who lives in a nearby state. Sadly, he states,...

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:07 AM

If you didn’t know you know now that our former enslavers have really done a job on us. For centuries we were indoctrinated in Anglo-Saxon superiority using educational tools such as whips, rifles and nooses. This putrid programming was accompanied...

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:07 AM

Imagine a natural disaster that can potentially drive up the cost of food, energy, and retail items while negatively impacting manufacturing, tourism, exports, bank interest rates and even inflation, and basically impacting the whole of the...

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:07 AM

There is a new development in public health in Jamaica – one that has been years in the making and which augurs well for improved access to healthcare, particularly for those persons from rural and underserved areas. It is that our nurses are to be...

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:06 AM

In a world grappling with flailing social complexities, the significance of compassion and emotional learning (mCEL) has never been more apparent. mCEL, my strongly advocated examinable process (by CE, PEP, CSEC, CAPE, and the like) for acquiring...

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Today (November 26), the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will be dead sure that all of the shouting and crowing will be a fitting prelude to another official attempt to seal the Opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) place as king of the backyard...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:10 AM

Silly season is definitely in full swing. Latest feature acts are a senseless scuffle regarding the tabling of Auditor General (AudGen) and Integrity Commission (IC) reports and a tedious tug-o-war regarding who can see an Opinion given on the...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:10 AM

In April, Jamaica hit a record low unemployment rate of 4.5 per cent, underlining a shift from a decades-long economic problem of surplus labour capacity. The current rate of less than five per cent, defined by most economists as “full employment...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:10 AM

With global metal producers celebrating aluminium as the green metal of the future, and the consumption of the metal increasing by more than 100 per cent since year 2000, aluminium is now being posted by marketing analysts as the metal with the...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:09 AM

In the Black community worldwide, mental ill-health manifests in myriad individual and social dysfunctions. The impulse to harm others, which is a version of self-harm, has now been normalised in crisis proportions. Jamaica has the dubious...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Pharmacy owner Dave Murphy and his employee John Love were recently arrested and charged by the St Catherine police, in conjunction with the Pharmacy Council of Jamaica, for illegally dispensing pharmaceutical drugs without the presence of a...

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