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 …
Absolute Madness
It appears that most Jamaicans are upset over the government voting itself hefty increases in salaries ranging from 100% to 200% and more. The reaction can be understood as there are no means of accountability or …
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 …
Labour Laws: We Have A Fight On Our Hands
A recent report released by the the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has highlighted what many Jamaicans interested in the welfare of the Jamaican worker have long suspected. The report, which …
Liberty, Equality, And Their Incubation In History
While growing up, this writer was often told that he had to go through a period of incubation having been born two months shy of nature’s full nine-month gestation period. To …
Freedom and Public Opinion
This seems to be an idea whose time has come….. Disconcerting and perplexing as are current events, it’s not as if we were not warned. One of the most astute observations, …
Three Year Olds Still Developing
Super filly Atomica blotted her copybook in the Gold Cup despite being sent to post as the howling 2-5 favourite. Sigh. This only established how superficial public “analysis” of horseracing can …
Wanted A New National Hero To Represent What is Good in Us
BY FRANK PHIPPS, KC Decades of action by succeeding governments for crime control, especially for murder spreading fear across the island as domestic terrorism, leave communities with a pockmarked face of …
“What Condition Your Condition is In”
Last time out we spoke of the effects of different headgear on thoroughbreds. This time we offer a primer on how to assess a horse’s condition pre-race. Most people pay little …
A Christian Nation – What Does That Look Like?
“A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler’s “big lie”. It misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.” Darrell Huff, author of “How to Lie with Statistics.” Before Donald Trump and …