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 …
Horse racing’s survival despite eighteen months of pandemic buffeting has been a sports success story. It’s true that it has been the beneficiary of government ‘’see-and-blind” discrimination (some might say “hypocrisy”) …
Today as I write, the world remembers the tragic events which took place on September 11, 2001. Let me start by saying it was and remains a tragedy. Thousands of people …
What if a public figure who you revere as a hero was found guilty of a crime or of some act of gross immorality — should the honour for such an …
In horseracing there are escalating forms of placing wagers and the basics are fairly simple. There is place; win; and quinelas (first and second). After that the bets become more complex …
Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccination take-up remains at a shockingly low level. Many reasons are behind it but the primary two which have been highlighted since the first vaccine became available are low …
The continued operations of small, crowded, unsanitary Off Track Betting Parlours (OTBs) during the third wave of a pandemic that has caused oxygen supplies to run out and the near collapse …
This seems to be an idea whose time has come….. Disconcerting and perplexing as are current events, it’s not as if we were not warned. One of the most astute observations, …
Why do those who initiated the conversation on race get to be the ones to end it, here in America? In fact, what they were engaged in was no dialogue at …
Thanks to the performance of the Jamaican women’s 4×100 metre team on Independence Day Friday, 6th August 2021, we really had something exceptional to celebrate. These ladies — Briana Williams, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann …
The system that oppressed us over 400 years ago has not disappeared, it is still with us; it has merely mutated. Its most conspicuous form of oppression was the control of …
