What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy...
Concerned that too many underprivileged Jamaicans are being victimised by the justice system, a group of attorneys and human rights campaigners have banded together to assist persons who have been languishing behind bars because of systemic...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is keeping the date of the long overdue local government election close to his chest, but the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) have ramped up their campaigns. According to...
Attorney-at-law John Clarke has ample reasons to be angry and bear resentment with many different state agencies in Jamaica, especially the police force. Instead, the dedicated lawyer has turned his experience in state care as well as an ugly...
More than a decade of stalling in the Parliament, an overwhelming majority of Jamaicans want the debate on impeachment and recall resurrected and laws put in place to hold political representatives found guilty of criminal and/or moral crimes...
Jamaican politicians are being urged to be circumspect in their actions and utterances in light of a growing intolerance for politics, politicians and symbolic representation of the nation’s tragic slavery past. This latest call follows last week’s...
Three years after the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) 49-14 blowout election victory over the People’s National Party (PNP), issues such as crime and a trust deficit cast a long shadow over the Holness administration’s successes. Finance Minister Dr...
The Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of Parliament, which critically examines the Government’s current account and scrutinizes the operations of its agencies, may have held its last meeting under Chairman Mikael Phillips,...
The Court of Appeal has cleared the way for the eviction of several squatters and the demolition of residential and commercial buildings constructed on a contentious 850-acre seafront parcel of land in Little Bay and Brighton, Westmoreland. In a...
“I don’t believe that anyone can beat a Jamaican determined to succeed in any sports.” That’s the declaration from Crenston Boxhill, former president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF). And over the course of the nation’s 61 years of...
Hervé Berville is a 33-year-old Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Exuding passion and confidence, he is French President Emmanuel Macron’s representative to the International Seabed Authority conference in Kingston. The published author...
He is thousands of miles away from his family and the next three Father’s Day will see him in Afghanistan until his current tour ends, but distance is no barrier in celebrating this Jamaican gem whose life’s passion is serving the poor and...
Over the next three days, Jamaica will host a high-level meeting of specially invited leaders and stakeholders, as the Caribbean region seeks to find solutions to the ongoing crisis in Haiti. Jamaica’s role in the process has been welcomed by...
Citing glaring inequities in the society arising from the public-sector compensation review undertaken by the Government, Mark Golding has promised that a future People’s National Party (PNP) government will evaluate the structure and take steps to...
A long-standing quarrel between two men from the rural agriculture and fishing district of Alligator Pond in Manchester has left taxpayers with a multimillion-dollar bill racked up at the Mandeville Regional Hospital and University Hospital of the...
It was a horrific case of violent trauma, the images stomach churning and unbelievable for the medical professionals when they first saw them. In fact, as one doctor puts it, they were stunned into silence. Yet after one of the first of its kind...
It’s a few days shy of a month since High Commissioner Joan Thomas Edwards moved to the continent of her ancestors, and three full weeks on the job as Jamaica’s top diplomat to serve her country’s interests there. As High Commissioner to the...
Gay rights activist, attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson, wants the Jamaican Government to adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final appellate jurisdiction, as punitive costs to access the United Kingdom-based Privy Council, which...
She smiled a lot during the hour-long interview with The Sunday Gleaner, but it would be a mistake not to take her seriously. Reverend Merlyn Hyde-Riley is a portrait of steely resolve, is arrow focused and has never questioned her call to...
Concerns are being raised that the results of a recent opinion poll showing the two main political parties in a statistical dead heat, are to be blamed for the uptick in what is deemed ‘unparliamentary behaviour’. Midway the Jamaica Labour Party’s...
From ‘dutty labourites’ of the 1960s to ‘chi chi man’ of the 1990s, and ‘damn fools’ and ‘fool fool’ in between, Jamaica’s politics has a storied history of ugly name calling. And an even uglier characterisation of opponents by individuals of the...
A day after the executive of the Jamaica Police Federation expressed fears via WhatsApp messages that it could be sued over the legitimacy of the vote taken last Thursday in which it was alleged that more than 600 bogus ‘yes’ votes were recorded,...
Dr Heather Ricketts has smashed the iron curtain of male dominance of the deanship in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, becoming the first female and its fifth dean. The eyes of all the men...
Results from its recently commissioned political poll are not quite favourable and its ratings among voters have been waning since Portia Simpson Miller stepped down as leader, but that has not dissuaded a flurry of applicants to the People’s...
The long-postponed local government polls seem headed for another postponement with the country’s electoral authority indicating that the budget needed to execute the elections, which are due by the end of next month, has not yet been approved by...
