Equal pay for women in sports – A myth
Over the last couple of years there has been a hue and cry about the lack of equality in pay and compensation for professional female athletes. This came to a head …
No separation between the economic and political spheres
Can the political and fiscal/economic spheres ever be separated? For the past 70 years, post-World War II, we have seen how the world has moved from the economic sphere being firmly …
Education funding – a new policy
The Government of Jamaica (GOJ), commendably, has just decided to spend J$300 million to assist deregistered final year students at the University of the West Indies (UW), University of Technology, Jamaica …
Professional sports – the Jamaican farce
I am a self-confessed sports junkie. I need my daily fix of sports or my life becomes a boring humdrum of work, work, work and the interventions of Hilda. I have …
Boarding schools and the marginalised male - A solution
It has been axiomatic for decades in this country that the main driver for legitimate economic empowerment for the poor and the middle classes is education. We have all, at …