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Columns
Bypassing the WTO or killing it softly?
US President Donald Trump's march against multilateralism took an expected turn when his Administration announced the imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminium under a dusted off and infrequently used section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The suggested... Read More
Are we on a march to dictatorship?
Actions speak louder than words. This is a basic truth we learnt at Sunday school. Given this basic truth, the focus of any analysis of a person's commitment, competence, character, or trustworthiness should not be on what the person says, but what the person... Read More
PNP evidently short on message, money and momentum
He that beats the drum for the madman to dance is no better than the madman himself. — Senegalese proverb Read More
National Housing Trust — What it was supposed to be and what it has become
I was a first-term member of parliament still in my 20s when Michael Manley established the National Housing Trust (NHT) in 1976. Initially, it was tucked into the National Insurance Act but was given its own statute in 1979. Read More
The British monarchy's involvement in slavery
It is bad enough for the Church of England (Anglicans) to have played an abominable role in the African slave trade including bishops who owned slaves, but worst when Queen Elizabeth I turned out to be one that sponsored pirate John Hawkins. Read More
PHOTO: Full exposure
Professional photographer Leo Hudson shows members of the St Andrew High School Photography Club (from second left) Aliyah Addington, Esther-Gail Fraser, Neah Aris and Lori Nelson some features of the Cannon T5i camera during the school's Full Exposure Photography Forum held on the school's... Read More
Who Am I – My Life and Leadership: Jamaicanising Jamaica
Jamaicans had experienced four divisive elections over the four years prior to Independence: the federal elections (1958), the general election (1959), the federal referendum (1961), and the independence general election (1962). It was now necessary to put all these political differences... Read More
External interference in Caribbean elections is real
Before getting into the thrust of the serious and threatening matter that lies at the heart of this commentary, I declare that I was an integral part of the management of the campaign of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) for the March 21 General Election, and... Read More
What's Ruel Reid's beef with church schools?
In the past months we had a putsch to intimidate and diminish church schools. This is not the first time, but now Minister of Education Senator Ruel Reid is on the trail himself. A modest principal before his elevation, he should know he needs the Church as its schools do better on every... Read More
Not an easy road to safety
I was talking the other day to two young men to get an idea of how things have been going in the Spanish Town area, which can all too often be a war zone. I hear members of the police and military are on patrol to bring order into the community. These are serious times. Order must be... Read More
Champs and GSAT — Pressure and slide
It is that time of year when much focus is placed on the nation's youth as the Inter-secondary Schools' Sports Association (ISSA) Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships 2018 (popularly known as Champs) and the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) take centre stage. There... Read More
Carrying propaganda too far
Around the time of political independence in 1962, the Jamaica Information Service published a booklet on six great men in Jamaica. Included in that book were George William Gordon, Paul Bogle, Edward Jordan, Marcus Garvey, Sir... Read More
Missed opportunity to have a crime czar
Appointing Major General Antony Anderson commissioner of police, and burdening him with the expectation that he will transform the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and reduce the homicide rate, is a classic example of the wasted action Albert Einstein must have had in... Read More
How has the Trump ride been so far?
When Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States I said in this space that the American people should strap themselves down for a rough ride. As some readers would recall, based on a set of assumptions, I had predicted that he would have lost the elections. This was not to be. Read More
Is INDECOM a rogue commission of Parliament?
Head of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Terrence Williams has purportedly outmanoeuvred the police federation from a legal point of view by maintaining that he has always conducted private prosecutions and not sought to use any powers ascribed to... Read More
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