Threading The Needle
The Government of Jamaica continues to display a strange foreign policy, which has been highlighted in recent weeks. The Government no longer seems oblivious to the changing realities in the global …
Beware Of The Sleeping Giant — A Word To The Incoming Trump Administration
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” –Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (After the attack on Pearl Harbour) Presidential and …
Liberty, Equality, And Their Incubation In History
While growing up, this writer was often told that he had to go through a period of incubation having been born two months shy of nature’s full nine-month gestation period. To …
Freedom and Public Opinion
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, …
A Christian Nation – What Does That Look Like?
“A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler’s “big lie”. It misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.” Darrell Huff, author of “How to Lie with Statistics.” Before Donald Trump and …
Freedom and Public Opinion
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, …
Good Things Come in Small Packages
Good Things Come In Small Packages We often coin phrases to help us to feel better about ourselves. So expressions such as “Big is beautiful” and “Good things come in small …
CARICOM Must Decide On Haiti
In recent weeks CARICOM held a summit at which the regional body once again expressed concern over the situation in Haiti. This concern has been longstanding as issues in Haiti invariably …
King Charles 111, Yuck!
Over the years and much to the disgust of many of my fellow Jamaicans, I have never hidden my distaste for my country holding on to a member of the British …
Taboos – Opening The Box
For at least two hundred years, among the rules of society was that polite conversation should avoid the topics of politics and religion and restrict one’s remarks to the weather or …
No Love For The Environment –
The current Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration has, over the past few years, talked a big game as it relates to the environment. The Government congratulates itself on the boundaries of …