Security Guards: The New ‘Frontline’ Managers
One of the truly remarkable paradoxes in the field of organizational management, must be the role and function of security guards. If ever there was a group of workers whose functions …
The Problem With American Democracy – A Few Perspectives
In the aftermath of the United States presidential elections of 2024, despite the person who won the contest, and despite the political party that has regained the ascendancy in the governance …
Issue # 195
Economic Potential Of Preserving And Incentivizing Our Musical Legacy – Part 2
Last edition I outlined what went into my choosing 58 albums which are the works of pioneers who opened doors for other Jamaican musicians but who may not have had commercial …
Tourism Today
Sunday, September 27, 2020 marked the celebration of World Tourism Day under the theme: “Tourism and Rural Development”. This according to the United Nation World Tourism Organization / UNWTO is in …
Religion An Opiate We Must Use To Our Advantage
Religion is the opiate of the masses. This misquoted phrase from Karl Marx continues to be a hindrance to members of the left who seek to usher in a new and …
Time For An Alternative System Of International Currency Transactions
Recently, several international banks were revealed publicly for handling more than two trillion dollars of illicit transactions of an unsavory nature between 1999 and 2017. To those of us in Jamaica …
Trainers Are The Real Superstars
Exciting contests for the last two trainers’ championships have brought the work of race horse conditioning into focus. Jockeys are the super-stars of racing (undeservedly in my opinion) because they’re the …
Moving Governance Forward
Following on my last article, the time has come to address several things related to good governance that should be attended to in the Parliament. Some of these have been related …
SUICIDE WATCH!
Satirical Corner A leaked preliminary report assessing the outcome of the September 3, 2020 general elections has concluded that the People’s National Party “by its behaviour, utterances and conduct, is on …
The Mark is Golden
And it came to pass that during the first decade of Independence when Norman Washington Manley, the Father of the Nation, was set to demit office, he would have watched the …
How Will the Court Ruling Impact Future Crime Fighting?
The recent ruling from the courts which stated that the State’s use of State of Emergency (SOE) powers, including indefinite detention, is illegal as it relates to crime-fighting is similar to …