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 …
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 …
Congratulations to our Jamaicans sports persons who earned the right to represent our country at the Tokyo Olympics. I only wish we could have been in more disciplines, and this is …
Democracy, at its most rudimentary level, as practised in the United States, is a very strange ideological animal. If it were a creature in the wild it would be more of …
For a long time now I’ve been shouting epithets at local Starters (convinced they can hear me) as they appear to hold horses in the gates interminably almost as if they …
On Monday, May 10, 2021, Education Minister the Hon Fayval Williams announced tentative plans for summer school to help students recoup educational losses or reversals that have occurred due to COVID-19 …
In recent weeks the Prime Minister and other people have spoken on the importance of environmental protection with regard to assisting sustainability in a world where clean air and water will …
It is axiomatic that the novel coronavirus pandemic has up-ended teaching and learning as we know it, not only in Jamaica, but in the world. Face-to-face classes have been abandoned for …
The world is all agog at the international scandal brewing after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone. A post-race sample was found to contain 21 picograms of the …
He was born a babe — as innocent as all such acorns of flesh and blood are — which spring forth and was lovingly cuddled, dutifully nurtured, and fiercely protected. There …
Recently there has been increased awareness and accordingly increased public discourse about “violence against women”. The truth is nothing has changed. An under-educated, homophobic society enslaved by the Christian Church is …
