Last month, beneath the brooding shadows of Rose Hall Great House, where the walls still whisper with the cries of the enslaved, CARICOM leaders assembled in Montego Bay. There, on blood-soaked soil, they gathered – descendants of the brutalised –...
The signs are everywhere. People across Jamaica question whether their income keeps pace with skyrocketing prices. Young people wonder if they’ll find decent employment opportunities. The education system struggles to prepare children for the...
“Emancipendence” week must always represent a significant milestone in Jamaica’s history. On August “first morn,” 191 years ago in 1834, approximately ninety percent of the Jamaica population received Emancipation from slavery, then 128 years later...
The time for polite debate is over. It is now a matter of survival. We write to call for the criminalisation of climate change denial across Jamaica and all CARICOM member states. Moreover, we urge that the deliberate misrepresentation of non-...
I know many of you are chafing at the bit to read more about JLP vs PNP. Especially these days, sycophants’ political anxiety can only be calmed by opinions favourable to one and unfavourable to the other political cult. But the bad news is recent...
Jamaica stands on the verge of another general election — but, instead of vision, the air is thick with noise. Not the noise of bold ideas or nation-shaping policies, but a clamour filled with viral dances, petty feuds, and TikTok theatrics that...
Two months out from when the next election is constitutionally due in Jamaica, neither the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) nor the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has identified a set of burning issues, or one big, pressing matter, that...
If we’re ever to understand why we must urgently sever colonial links; implement real constitutional reform; emancipate Jamaicans from mental slavery; chart a new path, we must first stop over-rating “English justice”. We are often taught that “...
That very first time I saw Tanya she was dressed in flesh-hugging pink, what had to be uncomfortably red stilettos and she was seated on a brown upholstered stool. Tanya was about 18, but she did not allow her young age to hold back her resolve to...
The recent discovery of a caregiver living with the mummified body of a deceased care recipient in the person’s home is more than a headline. It is a sobering indication of how older people, and those who care for them, can slip through the cracks...
The controversial police killing recently of Jadean Gooden at his home in the Grants Pen community in northeast St Andrew has highlighted the need to reactivate community-centred initiatives that have proven to be effective in reducing crime and...
In a region where hunger has cast a persistent shadow for generations, from the debt crises of the 1980s through the volatility of the 1990s to the recent shock of COVID-19, an unexpected and powerful development is now emerging: Latin America and...
It would be laughable if it were not so tragic, to contemplate the extent to which Jamaica has been divided and conquered by the illusion of democracy. The still-colonial system that governs partisan politics in Jamaica, makes no pretence that it...
In the face of intensifying climate threats, volatile energy markets, rising inequality, and the brutal legacy of unsustainable development, it is no longer acceptable for Caribbean business schools to persist with curricula largely disconnected...
It is not hyperbole to say that energy is destiny. And for too long, Jamaica’s destiny has been dictated not by the people, nor by the imperatives of justice or resilience, but by monopolistic inertia. The 2027 expiration of the Jamaica Public...
By now everybody knows I’ve no use for political polls. Elsewhere they’re unreliable at best but, in Jamaica, they’re as useful as a handbrake on a canoe. Polls’ most hilarious aspect is the published margins of “error” which are usually about plus...
The Transport Minister Daryl Vaz recently announced that 25 new school buses arrived in Jamaica on June 24, with another 36 expected from New York the following week. This development should be welcomed across all sides of the political aisle as an...
As the nation entered hurricane season on June 1, three development issues dominated the public media, raising hybrid yet related concerns, leaving citizens baffled, even confused. Some are saying - so what; others - here we go again; even more –...
The nomination of United States (US) president, Donald Trump, for the Nobel Peace Prize by Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, recalls the sardonic quip, in 1973, by American songwriter Tom Lehrer, that the prize being awarded to...
The death of a mother and/or her baby is as saddening as it is sobering, reminding us – as a Government, health ministry, community, and family – to remain vigilant in our efforts to ensure safe motherhood. It takes a village to preserve the...
Andrew Clunis, of the Jamaica Times publication, featured a piece that was somewhat neutral on the state of Jamaica’s healthcare system. ‘It isn’t all that bad! concluded the column. Having had reasons to spend some time there on Father’s Day, I...
I doubt many noticed, but, last year, I was absent from this space for a while. It began in late May after ten days hospitalisation following major surgery and a rocky post-op. It has taken too long to more publicly (already did it on my blog)...
With a general election knocking on our gate, whether we answer it or not it is not a secret that we love to have good times. We love to go out and dance. Kiss and get close together. Believe it or not there are few things we like as much as a...
Jamaica’s national School Nutrition Policy (SNP) has been passed in Parliament, bringing attention to improving children’s nutritional habits in schools. However, it is essential to also focus on physical activity (PA). Both nutrition and PA are...
It’s one of the most grotesque distortions in modern Christianity: Evangelicals waving Israeli flags in church, quoting Old Testament prophecies like political slogans, and cheering on a regime whose policies mirror the brutality inflicted on Jesus...
