Nothing Wrong With Countries Having an Agenda
China has an agenda, I think China has an agenda, beware of the Chinese agenda. These phrases and others like it are uttered by persons who are wary of interacting with …
Hope in the Spirit of Christmas
As Jamaicans continue to celebrate the birth of Christ, the season arrives this year carrying both familiar warmth and an unusual weight. Christmas in Jamaica has always been more than a …
What is China?
This is the question of the age which is currently on the minds of university professors, politicians, industrialists, and citizens, especially in the third world. The question is as follows: Is …
Beyond The Gig Economy
The world has and continues to endure a pandemic the likes of which we have not seen since the Spanish flu and whose impact on the work world is akin to …
Time To End The Cuba Blockade
On June 23 this year, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly once again voted on a resolution which condemns the blockade on Cuba as illegal and inhumane and calls on the …
Beware Those NGOs
Jamaica, like most third world countries, is awash with many NGOs. These organisations run the gamut from advocating transparency, gender rights, LGBTI rights, Black rights and so on and more often …
Lambert Brown, Jungle Justice And The Failing Jamaican State
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade …
No Such Thing As An Apolitical Central Bank
Parson christen him pickney first, a closed shop, the old boys’ club, patronage, nepotism. It is common knowledge and widely accepted that biases and prejudices exist and that people will, if …
No More Reactive Politicians
The recent heinous murder of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson has elicited the now normal response from Jamaican society. It started with the alert that she was missing, the police and security ministry …
‘You Are No Sulla’
It is told, in what is probably an apocryphal tale, that Pompeii Magnus of the Triumvirate in a fit of rage exclaimed but “Sulla did it”. This was in reference to …
Beyond The Lightweights
By Alex Scott Recently the Prime Minister took time out of the budget debate to scoff at suggestions that he is a ‘lightweight’ on the international stage. In doing this he …