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Columns
Searching for growth in a time of budget contraction
The Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) 2021/22 budget is a fiscal consolidation budget chiselled by the realities of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Fiscal consolidation is the deliberate policy intended to mitigate fiscal deficits as well as public debt growth. To use football terminology,... Read More
Equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution is good sense, not altruism
MANY years ago, when I was venturing into coffee farming, I spent some time with the late Cecil Langford on his coffee farm up in the Blue Mountains trying to learn as much as I could about growing coffee. One of the important lessons he taught me was how to combat the dreaded berry...... Read More
Put money where your mouth is, Holness!
The entire world is facing an economic crisis and the tertiary education sector is not immune from this crisis. In fact, one of sectors most hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic is tertiary education and the Jamaican education sector, particularly universities, have...... Read More
India to our aid
Here we are in March 2021, one year after the COVID-19 alert was sounded in Jamaica and we closed down our offices, started working more from home, wearing masks, sanitising; doing all the right things to stay well. Meanwhile, some of our fellow...... Read More
US-Cuba normalisation could increase production of COVID-19 vaccines
If US President Joe Biden eases the trade embargo against Cuba, one benefit to developing countries, including the Caribbean, could be greater access to COVID-19 vaccines at an affordable price. Read More
Sovereignty suspended?
A raging debate has erupted as to whether Jamaica is a laggard Caribbean State in the race to get its people vaccinated against COVID-19. The protagonist debaters point out that Barbados, The Commonwealth of Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada, St Lucia, and others have all started... Read More
Sowing seeds of suspicion in a miasma of distrust
In his seminal work The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian renaissance political philosopher, posited that a political leader should always have a deputy to do the dirty work. In 1532, when Machiavelli published that political... Read More
Remembering Rt Rev Dr Percival William Gibson (1893 – 1970)
Fifty years have passed since the death of the Right Reverend Percival William Gibson, MLC, DD, BA, CBE, and during that period far too little has been done to educate the Jamaican people on the life and work of one of their greatest sons. Read More
Reggae music, dancehall and the subculture of violence (part two)
The worldwide demand for reggae music enhanced the material well-being of the artiste who had international appeal and could perform in festivals in Europe and concerts in North America and other venues in Japan and South America. Read More
COVID-19: Lessons we have learnt
Prior to 2020, the world was a different place. More cynical, but less serious. We took things for granted. We could travel as we liked, party as we wished and actually plan our future.This changed in 2020. Read More
What is heart failure? (part two)
Today, we continue our discussion on heart failure and will look at the diagnosis of heart failure, diagnostic tools for heart failure and explore how the risk of heart failure can be decreased. Read More
What next, since neoliberal capitalism not working?
LAST week I was clearing out my father's storeroom where he had saved a range of historical documents. From political analyses, policy research, the Emergency Production Plan of 1977 (an alternative plan to Jamaica going back to the International Monetary Fund), to many commission... Read More
The 'buttus' vs the rest of us
Some years ago, the late Professor Emeritus of The University of the West Indies Rex Nettleford hit the nail on the head when he quipped that “a buttu in a Benz is still a buttu”, no doubt seeking to highlight a new breed of Jamaicans who, by virtue of their material wealth... Read More
The dollar must not be allowed to suffer
The Jamaican dollar at the time of composing this article now stands at $150.01 to US$1. Urgent attention ought to be directed to the increasing exchange rate. Read More
Too black to succeed: The black experience
Love him or hate him, our National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey and his organisation, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), are originals. In honour of February, Black History Month, it is important that we shed some light on the fact that the tag line 'Too... Read More
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