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By way of YouTube, last week I heard a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) intellectual and pragmatist refer to the fullness of the JLP as ‘governmental ‘ administration instead of ‘ruling’ administration as I call it. I do so because political power is...
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Elaine Thompson-Herah of Banana Ground, Manchester, Jamaica is arguably the greatest female sprinter the world has ever seen. For the purpose of the analysis below, I am excluding the records held by Florence Griffith- Joyner. The 100m and the...
When the Caribbean mounted its bold response to HIV in the 1990s and early 2000s, it did so with the heavy backing of external donors. Through shared responsibility and global solidarity, the World Bank, PEPFAR, the Global Fund, and other partners...
In Jamaica, families are fighting battles that few ever see. These are not the battles of indiscipline or “bad behaviour”, as is too often whispered. They are the daily struggles of parents raising children with neurological and neurodevelopmental...
Post election, the loudest public kerfuffle surrounded the query “how cum ‘Action Ann’ lose to ‘Little Youth’ in East Portland?” I was among those pre-election pundits who carelessly placed Portland East in the JLP win column as part of “Vazland.”...
I praise God for overseas, multicultural, polyglot education Each morning, many Jamaicans tune into a radio segment which promises a generous survey of the region’s astonishing musical variety. One might reasonably expect to hear a cross-...
Cawn’t sey mi neva dida warn yu! From as far back as April 13 ( Pick a Winner Wouldja Please?) I concluded after a constituency by constituency preview of the upcoming election: “St Elizabeth South-Western is the quintessential Bell Weather…. it...
The dust of the election has settled, and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has emerged victorious in a closely contested race. Congratulations are due to the prime minister Dr. Andrew Holness and the JLP. In moments like these, leadership is not just...
Across the Caribbean, our health systems face a dual crisis that can no longer be treated in isolation. On one hand, decades of investment in the HIV response have delivered remarkable gains, resulting in more people living with HIV being on...
On Friday, August 29 in New Kingston, hundreds of workers were evacuated from offices and shops following a bomb threat. For over two hours, they stood exposed in the sun — confused, frustrated, and vulnerable. While public safety must always be...
In the grand arena of global culture, size is not always the determining factor of influence. This is unequivocally proven by our Caribbean island nation of Jamaica. With a population of just under three million, Jamaica stands as a cultural titan...
Even as Jamaicans were in the throes of a general election campaign an impending catastrophe was brewing in Caribbean waters. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was returned to power, defeating the People’s National Party (PNP) by a close margin of...
What explains the unified stance on reparation unfolding on both sides of the Atlantic among peoples of African descent? The demand for reparation by the descendants of enslaved and colonised peoples is premised on the need to get redress for the...
While it always occupied more than a little space within the realm of possibilities, I must confess that at times on election day and night it appeared that PM Holness would miss his date with his three-straight-terms destiny. One big bugbear was...
During this season in Jamaica’s history leading to the September 3 general election, so many questions are being asked by pollsters and pundits. They bring to mind the ‘fairy tales’ of the Grimm Brothers, especially Snow White, made famous in 1937...
Elections are upon us once more. Banners flutter, voices rise, and the spectacle of politics unfolds in familiar rhythms. Beneath this clamour, beneath the spectacle and the promises, there lies a void — a silence far more deafening than any noise...
