The challenge to our leaders: Who will bell the cat?
Happy 2018 to all our readers and to the larger Jamaican population at home and abroad. The year ahead is comprised of two major challenges — the new challenges that …
Land reform must follow Hurricane Melissa
In 1838, slavery was abolished in the British West Indies. It was the end of an over 300-year policy, practice, and business of enslaving Africans to work on the sugar plantations on …
Patrimony gone awry
The real patrimony of this beautiful isle is the land bequeathed to its citizens from generation to generation. The land provides fertile ground for sugar, coffee, cocoa, pimento, ackee, domestic food …
Time to get the progress train on track
Happy New Year to all readers of Public Opinion. Its entrance into the Jamaican media landscape was THE breath of fresh air for 2017. It’s time for reflection and goal-setting …
Whose responsibility is it?
As we approach the end of the calendar year most companies that have December 31, as a year-end are busy tidying up their books in anticipation of a timely and …
Get two year olds running early
I’ve been hinting for a while now that I consider the export of our best yearlings to be a significant factor in the decline of Jamaica’s horse racing product over the …
Prisons, prison deals and politics
Congratulations are in order for the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime (CTOC) branch of the Jamaican police force who last week completed the arrest of 25 members of the Terrence gang …
Leadership, strategy and the pressures to succeed
The unfortunate demise of well-respected Lowell Hawthorne, founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill, spawned numerous and various debates on the motivation behind his actions. The circumstances, whatever …
The Maneater or the Bird?
A great time was had by all on Diamond Mile Day when She’s A Maneater silenced all naysayers and cemented an unparalleled 17th Trainers’ Championship for living legend Wayne DaCosta. She …
Beware we don’t become like the survivors in the ‘final war’
I start by extending my condolences to the family and friends of Lowell Hawthorne. I knew him from about 1976 when as a young child he would come down to Grace …
Wayne DaCosta – best by any test!
Now that the greatest Jamaican race horse trainer of all time has put down his marker as such by winning the only Grade 1 race to escape him over the years, …