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Jamaica’s appearance on America’s list of countries that are either major producers or transshipment points for illicit drugs will be discomforting for Kingston, but isn’t, on its face, a source of crisis for the Holness administration. As it now...
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Have you seen Lord Melody? The police are making inquiries Please if you see the Boo Boo man Get in touch with the nearest police station Ah hear he have a big maintenance case Causing a sensation in the place Ah cow in the country...
I return to a focus on Haiti because it is too easy for the world to discard the situation in that beleaguered country. In part, it is precisely because insufficient attention has been paid to Haiti in a holistic way that its circumstances worsen...
Apart from Andrew Wheatley’s return from seven years in political purgatory, the most notable feature of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ new Cabinet is the ditching of Marlene Malahoo Forte, and the merging of her legal and constitutional affairs...
A new cabinet with mostly old faces was sworn in on Wednesday. Time will allow for more critical analysis, but I must mention two positive developments, and one must give praise where praise is due. First, the responsibility for constitutional...
I have now had an uninterrupted water supply for two days straight. This is truly cause for jubilation since, as of July, when the NWC announced its annual water restriction schedule, water has been a scarce commodity. It looks like the ‘drought’...
With the general election concluded with another victory for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), the Holness administration should extend with itself the debate about income tax policy it had with the People’s National Party (PNP) on the campaign...
SOME DAYS ago, I had to visit a friend at the Tony Thwaites Wing (TTW) of the University Hospital of the West Indies. TTW has always puzzled me. For years, it had sort of developed a reputation as the hospital where rich people go. But the vast...
IN SCHOOL, we learnt of our discovery and subsequent colonisation by a number of European nations, the chief of which was the British. Caribbean history, as explained, then chronicled the escapades of Christopher Columbus and, in later years, the...
This newspaper has no question about the competence of Glasspole Brown or his capacity to speak with authority about the technical aspects of the conduct of elections in Jamaica. But when it comes to the articulation of policy, we prefer to hear,...
Heeding discipline shows the way to life – The book of Proverbs Without discipline there is no life. – Katharine Hepburn AROUND THE world, we are seeing the increasing erosion of discipline, which includes heeding rules and regulations,...
Morant Bay and Negril are at different ends of Jamaica. The former is in the east, on the island’s south coast. It is the capital of the parish of St Thomas, which lags the rest of Jamaica in development. People from St Thomas mostly work outside...
Last week, there was a deadly shootout in Mandeville where a man shot and killed another after a dispute, rumoured to be about payment for eggs. The gunman fled the scene, but the security forces located him, and after a standoff and prolonged...
It was two weeks after Apocrypha’s general elections but Oma D’unn was still busy fielding electoral complaints. Regular visitors to that fantasyland where all politicians are friends remember retired politician Oma D’unn. Oma, like a moon, was...
Anyone with even a passing interest in investments and how long it will take their capital to double at a specific rate of return is likely to be aware of the Rule of 70. It is a simple tool based in the mathematics of exponential growth and...
When expediency trumps principle, when selfishness or drunken power overtake self-restraint and mutuality, tragic damage is done to the human experience. Share with me some local and international instances in last week’s news. IS THIS LOVE?...
