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The Government’s plan to sharply increase jail sentences for people convicted of homicide, we continue to feel, will at best prove symbolic. It may make the Holness administration appear tough on crime, but with little or no real deterrent effect...
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JAMAICA’S INFATUATION with its gangsters is as confounding as it is legendary. Immortalised in folklore and popular culture, the names Dennis ‘Copper’ Barth, Wayne ‘Sandokan’ Smith and Nathaniel ‘Natty’ Morgan, are just a few of the names that have...
IN JAMAICA, the journey of our children is laden with obstacles that threaten their growth and well-being. From neurodevelopmental conditions to learning difficulties and socioeconomic disparities, each challenge casts a shadow over their potential...
Once it hears the arguments this week in the latest twist over the “good faith certificates” granted to the three soldiers accused of murdering Keith Clarke, the Court of Appeal must act with urgency in delivering its judgment. Justice for the...
This week, in this series looking at traditional agricultural exports, I am focusing on coffee. Jamaica’s Blue Mountain Coffee is recognised by the International Coffee Organization as a high quality specialty coffee. The demand for Blue Mountain...
American voters are extremely worried that the 82-year-old President Joe Biden is too old and is not mentally fit to either remain in office or to be reelected president in November 2024. And, just when 76 per cent of voters have that concern on...
It is not clear what specific objections the old boys’ and parent-teacher associations have against Sian Wilson’s possible elevation as principal of Calabar High School. Whatever those are may be legitimate and should be heard. Nonetheless, this...
Apocrypha, our favourite Fantasyland where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solves political problems by parable, was a ball of confusion. Readers remember Oma? Like a moon, he was bright only in the dark but had a knack for thinking...
Recently, I came across a post on a social media platform where someone expressed the view that our Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government is corrupt. Someone else commented on the post asking “what about” the People’s National Party (PNP), that...
This newspaper appreciates Lord Reed’s declared efforts to have the British government change the law to allow judges from countries, like Jamaica, that retain the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) as their apex court, the opportunity...
Several days ago, China’s economic report for Q1 2024 was released. The GDP increased by 5.3 per cent year-on-year, the value added of high-tech manufacturing increased by 7.5 per cent, the investment in fixed assets increased by 4.5 per cent, and...
I am so proud of my country and government for our recognition of the Palestinian state. By so doing, we are showing that we are recovering our own mind and principled foreign policy. H. L. Shearer and his buddy M. N. Manley are clapping in heaven...
The Holness administration has given itself a chance for a reset of the education transformation project and to mobilise Jamaicans behind the initiative. It should grasp it. Last week, in a further reminder of how the cart was hitched in front of...
We must rid ourselves of the Privy Council because its retention is an unacceptable expression of our independence and sovereignty. By the same token, we must rid ourselves of the UK Monarchy and embrace Republicanism because the retention of the...
What fortune to be born in this era! We have seen our first female prime minister, chief justice, and commissioners of correction and Customs, and were it not for the shameless bias, and yet unexplained actions of the powers that be, we would have...
Last February, property owners on Lady Musgrave Road were issued notices that some of their land would be acquired by the Government for infrastructure development. The widening of Lady Musgrave Road and East King’s House Road is intended to ease...
