Law And Justice – Do Not Confuse Them
As a young man — wide-eyed and full of enthusiasm — this writer was enamoured by the legal profession. After watching such television programmes as Perry Mason, Crown Court, and Petrocelli — …
Oh, just because they can! – The idea of “Might is Right”
There was a time when corporal punishment was part and parcel of our Jamaican school system. It was, perhaps, a holdover from the old British colonial era. It was often abused …
Mandatory Vaccine For Tourism Workers – Is This Around The Corner?
The tourism ministry in Jamaica has been constantly encouraging workers in the industry to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. The seriousness of this matter led to the establishment of the …
Forward Ever Backward Never
The most important factor in finding winners is the state of the going. It’s the horses’ main external contact so, as Dennis Brown might say, some like it hot; some like …
Selling Their Souls To The God Of Profit And A Foreign Land
Jamaica is a funny country; our capitalist class is so embedded and so all-powerful that they have successfully vanquished the talk of socialism in this country, which has been unmatched in …
Maligning Jamaican Mothers
No child can be born without the input of a male, but too many Jamaican men are being allowed to get away without providing any financial support for the children they …
Interest Rates
The announcement by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) that it has increased interest rates in an effort to control inflation has raised eyebrows and initiated discussion among the public who are …
Inaction And Ignorance Causes Idiocy
A common proverb is that ‘The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.’ This is meant to indicate that although things may seem bad from our individual …
Time To Take A Stand On Miss Universe
Jamaican people root for the underdog, they side with the oppressed and have, for ages, stood firmly against imperialism. This is not in doubt. History bears this out. When Ethiopia was …
Let’s Say They Had Succeeded, What Would Have Happened Then?
“Proud Boys,” “Oath Keepers,” “QAnon,” “3 percent,” “Boogaloo,” and “NSC-131” are some of the white racist extremist groups which were responsible for the attempted coup d’etat in Washington, DC on January …