Columns

Valerie Veira: Listening to the song of her team members

Valerie Veira grew up in a home in which confidence was not lacking. She was told she could be anything. Today, she is CEO of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) — a position she could have envisaged occupying eventually, since she has grown up in the public... Read More

Wanted: Character education
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of true education. — Dr Martin Luther King Jr, civil rights leader... Read More

From virus to vaccine: A journey of misinformation
Once upon a time there was a bat some dude may have eaten (or some human-to-bat contact) that unleashed a terrible plague on humanity in the year 2020. While humanity fought to control this plague, a group of the misinformed, preaching bombastic nonsense, threatened to...... Read More

COVID-19's assault on education, entertainment
COVID-19 has affected Jamaica and her citizens, as it has other countries and their citizens across the globe. Here, at home, the tourism, sports, entertainment, and education sectors can be determined as being most affected. Within the last few weeks there have been an...... Read More

Still NIDS-wary

By Ralston Nunes | Wednesday, February, 10 2021

I recently remarked to a colleague that I think the national identification system (NIDS) was more fundamental than the Caribbean Court of Justice and should be the subject of a referendum. He responded tersely, “Two-thirds,” in reference to how Parliament is presently... Read More

Dispute resolution — indispensable tool in the crime fight

Raulston Nembhard | Wednesday, February, 10 2021

Outside of normal ministerial duties, one of the most important activities that I became involved in was to serve as a court-appointed mediator in the Florida court system. I served largely as a volunteer in the dispute resolution unit of the court in Orange and Osceola... Read More

A little legal history from and for the unlearned

Clinton Chisholm | Tuesday, February, 9 2021

We can parrot it from memory, no doubt, though you and I are not lawyers — thus 'unlearned' in legal terms. Given what's trending in the USA, the maxim may irritate and disgust you if you are a Trumpite, but perhaps delight and even excite you if you are not. The maxim is: No one... Read More

The journey is far from complete

Albert Baldeo | Tuesday, February, 9 2021

America has a new Administration. Like all other immigrant communities, Guyanese-Americans and other communities of colour, too, have similar legitimate concerns and issues. Over the years, these groups have been climbing the social, economic, professional, and political ladders, and... Read More

When last you see the man in the moon?

Lance Neita | Monday, February, 8 2021

I was taking a nap on a lazy Sunday afternoon when the telephone rang. It was a Sunday school 'graduate' who wanted to come by to say hello. Hadn't seen him for some time since he went to Kingston for university and was eager to hear how he was getting on, and to hear news of relatives... Read More

Lack of love at the heart of Ja's crime problem

Joanna Simpson | Monday, February, 8 2021

Truly, the level of ruthlessness and the absolute abhorrent nature of crime is beyond alarming. And, we have all sorts of reasons for crime being on the rise. But are we yet willing to look in the mirror and admit that we are all complicit? That we have all built this monster of crime... Read More

A massive Turveydropesque mistake

Garfield Higgins | Sunday, February, 7 2021

He who does not seize opportunity today will be unable to seize tomorrow's opportunity. — Somali proverb, Somalia Read More

Courage over conformity

Bruce Golding | Sunday, February, 7 2021

Etched in the minds of the past two generations is the graphic picture of a lone young man defiantly seeking to block the path of a military tank during the Tiananmen Square protests in China in 1989. That type of courage is rooted in an unwavering commitment to certain principles and a... Read More

Caricom united voice urgent in COVID-19 vaccine crisis

Ronald Sanders | Sunday, February, 7 2021

Developing countries, including the member states of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), are being left behind in the roll-out of vaccinations against COVID-19 that is now underway in rich countries. The most recent information from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is that 36... Read More

Murder by neglect!

Jason McKay | Sunday, February, 7 2021

The Armenian genocide that took place in Turkey from about 1915 to a disputed date of 1923 has some interesting and thought-provoking features. Read More

Is vaccination apartheid for Jamaica and the Caribbean inevitable?

Imani Duncan-Price | Sunday, February, 7 2021

“Vaccination is the most important economic policy this year.” Ana Botin, group chairman of Santander, made this unequivocal statement at the recent Davos Agenda hosted by the World Economic Forum. This hit home. Vaccination in this novel coronavirus pandemic is not just... Read More