Age of Consent
According to a Gleaner report on December 6, 2022, “During the sitting of the Senate last Friday, Opposition Senator Damion Crawford called for the age of consent to be raised from …
Here We Go Again?
For in excess of 40 years, Jamaica has been knocking around with the troubling issue of whether we should sever relations with the British Monarch as our head of state. For …
Those Of Us On The Left Have Had A Long History Of Combatting And Opposing Liberalism
This is a history which can be found in the Paris Communes, the Peterloo massacre and the attempts to end colonialism in the early 1900s, events which saw those pushing and …
Government Neglect Driving Low Breeding Output
So, Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association of Jamaica (TOBA) President Howard Hamilton has been quoted by the Observer as saying the breeding industry is in a state of panic. Ya don’t …
Cultivating Today For Bountiful Harvest Tomorrow
It is widely acknowledged that there is a generational divide aided by the current age of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This reality has many Baby Boomers lamenting the apparent dissolution …
Let The Insurrectionists Go? Why Not? It’s Tradition!
“Pity is treason.” ⁃ Maximilien Robespierre Many have asked and still ask, what is taking so long? Why are some of the rioters, out of the factious and fractious throng …
I Hate Socialism!
It is almost impossible to turn on television these days and not hear some shrill accusation about some politician being a socialist. Of course, these charges are being widely thrown at …
The Chance For A Broader View Of History (Celebrating Jamaica’s Sixtieth Anniversary)
The chance for a broader view of history Celebrating Jamaica’s 60th Anniversary How time flies — it really does. During this my 63rd year of life, it now comes to mind …
Demystifying and empowering COPs
We all have concerns about the current weather patterns resulting in increasing incidents of flooding and drought and many of us glibly put them down to “Climate Change”, now a catch-all …
The World Has Got It Wrong
Women’s rights should not be determined by politics, religious doctrine or even social laws. These rights need to be guaranteed as human rights. The real concern is that the world needs …
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 …