What Needs To Be Done In 2022 And Beyond
BY HG HELPS Never mind a new year emerging. Jamaica, it’s leaders and people must produce a new approach to governance in respect of the political directorate, and a fresh discipline …
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 …
KSAC, A Sleeping Watchdog? No.
I believe it was former US speaker, Tip O’Neil, who first publicly made the observation, “All politics is local.” That is certainly true and recently it appears that our PM Andrew …
Unconditional Love
We were in a Zoom discussion one morning when the idea of unconditional love arose — that, in order to embody something, one has first to receive it. Sometimes it comes …
Ah, Just Words, Nothing To Worry About; Really?
The saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me” has been uttered by children for generations. Parents and grade school teachers, in an attempt to …
The Burdens Of Heroes
Heroes. A word that is no doubt familiar to all of us. According to the Oxford Learner’s dictionary, ‘a hero is a person, especially a man, who is admired by many …
COVID Court Drama Bad For Everyone
Jamaica, like other countries throughout the world, is having to deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic and how to live with it as a new ‘normal’. This is for many reasons, …