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 …
Oh, just because they can! – The idea of “Might is Right”
There was a time when corporal punishment was part and parcel of our Jamaican school system. It was, perhaps, a holdover from the old British colonial era. It was often abused …
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, …
Yes, I support NIDS, but…
The question of numbers, their composition, their security, and access and retrieval, was the main reason for the extended sitting of the Senate regarding the passage of the National ID …
How government can aid and abet corruption
The Terrible Tout Government announced the merger of the three separate regulatory bodies set up to monitor and control Jamaican gambling and horse racing too long ago but, as is …
The state of our democracy: why corruption is a ‘gendered’ issue [Part II]
In 2001, controversy linking gender and corruption became the burning issue in anti-corruption policy debate. Two sets of researchers published works that fuelled the great debate. Dollar et al published: “Are …
Decisive leadership not impossible, but…
The building of a nation may not always be a purely objective or even popular subjective voting process (like a referendum), but it does require planning, implementation, and most of all, …
In honour of the bicentenary of the birth of Bahá’U’lláh
A fact of history can only be truly understood if one understands the context within which the fact occurred. Thus, neither the Maroon Treaty of 1739 nor the introduction of Crown …
By-elections demonstrate the acceptance of the garrison
“Tis the seasons to be folly, tra la la lee, please elect me!” This is a really special time and after that “only 55 days left for Christmas shopping”. What …
Regional integration could mean moving to Guyana and Suriname
CARICOM, as is, is dead. It is going nowhere fast. What with all the animosity, regional tension, economic tension and social tensions, CARICOM as it relates to harmonising and developing relationships …
Marketing and Competition the Key
In the July 21 edition of Public Opinion, I addressed what I called the “sharp decline” of race horse owners (“Owners are People Too”) which the powers-that-be in the sport …