Let Us Be The Masters of Our Own Ship
I begin by offering my sincere condolences to the Vaz family on the loss of Douglas Vaz, father, grandfather, an ever-supportive Jamaica College alumnus, and a true Jamaican patriot to the …
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 …
Plastic Period Pains
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is a reminder to reflect not only on breast cancer but on women’s health in general. One central aspect of women’s health is menstrual …
Change
Change: we just don’t get it do we? Like the gears in a motor vehicle we have become complacent with automatic transmissions, and we scarcely remember the manual transmission and the …
Article: So Where Are We Now?
It is now six months since the dolphins arrived in Discovery Bay on March 3, which was about five weeks after the newly constructed pens were damaged by a winter storm …
Prevention of Cancer: Concepts for Consideration
Contributed by the LUTHER G. SPEARE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND (LGSMS) The LGSMS was established in memory of Luther G. Speare to assist in funding postgraduate research on Gastrointestinal, Cervical, Breast …
Thoughts On Living Accountably
A year has come and gone and I still find myself on this beautiful island. I find the work I am doing — community development — to be fulfilling and the …
Trauma
History does repeat itself, albeit in seemingly new iterations for those who choose to avoid the study of past events. The circumstances of prior actions are sometimes seemingly tedious in their …
Can we truly say that the spirit of Nuremberg is still alive?
World War II was, and remains, a stain on humanity’s existence, but we are taught in school that we did learn two things from it. First, wars of aggression are the …
Good Bad Words
Listening to RJR’s Beyond the Headlines programme on the evening of Friday August 16, 2019, I heard Senator Dr. Andre Haughton, University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer, speaking contemptuously of …
Alaska
I remember some years ago telling a friend that I would like to visit Alaska and her reply was that she had been on a cruise there and saw nothing but …