
To prevent athletes from switching allegiance
Jamaicans are enamoured with sports. Be it football, cricket, or netball, on any given day you will find Jamaicans engaging in these activities, even sports which you would think that we …
Jamaicans are enamoured with sports. Be it football, cricket, or netball, on any given day you will find Jamaicans engaging in these activities, even sports which you would think that we …
For as long as we have had an education system in Jamaica, we have never, as a society, been able to adequately prepare our people for good and responsible citizenship. This …
Current reading practices operate on the belief that the eyes play a pivotal role in picking up information that is essential for reading. So central is this belief that whole programmes …
Thanks to Professor Damith Wickramanayake (Computer Science UTech, Jamaica) and his wife, Sharlene, I just spent a delightful, entertaining, and educational three weeks in Sri Lanka. Like Jamaica, Sri Lanka is …
Emergency! No planes can land in the United States. There’s been a terrible accident!! Or something?? All planes coming from Europe and the East diverted to a small island in the …
The fall of the Assad Government in Syria was quick. In a matter of days, an army which was at a stalemate with its enemy was routed. We saw columns of …
Public transportation is far too important to be treated flippantly. I hear one politician suggesting that we should scrap it and let the private sector run it. Where was he when …
“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard, The cries, too, fall like rain in summer” — Bertolt Brecht, Selected …
Violence against women is, unfortunately, nothing new in this country. On any given day we will witness catcalling turning into verbal abuse, hear a man cuss out a woman dog rotten, …
“Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.”— Don Quixote, Cervantes I have lived within the continental United States for several decades now. …