Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Help me to understand, somebody. I might have been confused or I might have been completely oblivious as …
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign. The man who is …
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.” — US Senator Edward Kennedy Democracy is a great idea — a noble idea, especially against a backdrop …
I have taken a break from writing, for personal reasons – all valid, I assure you. The world, I think, was neither the richer or the poorer for my absence, nor …
“The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.” — Elihu Root When I …
Capitalism provides a pyrrhic victory for its much-vaunted progress. Achievement comes at a dire and much higher cost to humanity than its proponents are ever willing to admit. In its quest …
I left the Jamaican teaching profession more than two-and-a half decades ago. There was as much concern about the changing attitudes of our young people then as there is today. It …
My late mother-in-law, God rest her soul, could not understand why I was not registered as a voter in the Democratic Party (DNC) here in the United States. I guess that …
“Ye will surely say unto me this proverb. Physician heal thyself” — Jesus of Nazareth The power of the people is more powerful than that of the judiciary. That sounds like wishful …
The walk-out by the JLP Parliamentarians led by the Prime Minister last week, as the PNP’s Leader of the Opposition was making his contribution to the Budget Debate, was fraught with …
