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...
Jamaica is at a critical juncture in its economic life, similar to what it was in the 1960s when it missed the technological boom that China, the United States, Japan, Singapore, and other countries were able to capitalise on to advance their...
In the pursuit of safeguarding people’s safety, it is crucial to address the risks associated with unsound influence by some university researchers, professors, and credulous billionaires. This article highlights the challenges faced by small...
You have my sympathy Wesley Boynes, president of the Jamaica Independent Schools Association. A few days ago he asked something of the Government when he knew that what he sought was never going to be entertained. He wanted the Government to lend...
We are living in a state of global interconnectedness, where digitalisation, fuelled by new and emerging technologies and innovation, is having profound impact on how goods move safely and efficiently across international borders and jurisdictions...
The London-based Economist magazine has often acted as a conservative Anglo-American establishment mouthpiece. Its recent leader (‘How Not To Repair America’, June 10) and the accompanying main article (‘The Tide Goes Out’, June 10) on the...
After many years away I made it back to Jamaica, home to the ancestral whisperings that compelled me to write Master of My Fate, a historical fiction based on an enslaved man, William Buchanan, who endured chattel enslavement on Ginger Hill, St...
