BBC! The New Language Frontier
Just over three centuries ago, there began to emerge in Britain, France and throughout Europe new ideas about the world and how it should be governed for the sake of human …
Wayne DaCosta: An Inspiration
The true story of the life and times of legendary 18-time Champion Trainer Wayne DaCosta, indisputably the greatest of all time, is an inspirational tale. I can tell that story because …
Eliminating the gangway to prison
At the commencement of the school year I was silently praying and hoping that this will be the year when violence in schools will, if not totally eliminated, be drastically reduced, …
Anancyism and the elusive progress or prosperity
Recently, Contractor General Dirk Harrison, in an address to a Rotary Club meeting, spoke about the culture of anancyism and its effects in undermining Jamaica’s progress towards sustainable economic growth. …
Emancipendence hasn’t made us ‘free indeed’
There is, on the face of it, seemingly no parallel, no connection or relation between the happenings in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States last month, and the celebration of Jamaica’s …
(Dis)Respect and the (in)discipline of survival
Dr Peter Phillips’ now famous quote that ‘the man who plays by the rules is the man that gets shafted’, came home to me most forcibly about two weeks ago after …
Black lives and retroactive wages matter
Economists across the ideological divide are at least at one when it comes to the economic value of goods or services that is derived from the contribution of labour. Adam …