Is China Colonialist?
China’s influence in the world has long sparked suspicion and envy. This is to be expected as such a giant country going from zero to one hundred in what seems no …
The seminal contribution of PJ Patterson to nation building
Percival Noel James Patterson celebrated his 90th birthday on Thursday, April 10, having spent his entire life in service to his homeland and beyond. Before taking the helm as Prime Minister …
The Need For Active Protective Systems In The Face Of COVID-19
One of the challenges of getting back to work after COVID-19 will be conforming to new standards, or to old standards that will have to be enforced vigorously in this period. …
The Art Of War In Action
Having spent some time reflecting on the management of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jamaica, my thoughts zeroed in on The Art of War, written over 2,000 years ago and …
Will they succeed this time? Yes, if they vote!
I have always heard that America was a dangerous place for non-whites, but thought that with the election of Barack Obama the country was on its way to redemption. Then along came …
Rage Over 8.46 Minutes Of Infamy, But Will change ever come to Jamaica?
8.46: George Floyd. When that graphic first appeared there were some of us who immediately feared the worst, an American sprinter named George Floyd had broken the 100 metre world record …
Will Their True Worth Be Valued? Nah!
I am bemused, as no doubt are the scientists who were taken by surprise by the coronavirus. For it seems clear now that they overreacted. Don’t get me wrong, I am …
An Apology And A Call To Action For Vision 2030
Never let a good crisis go to waste, is a popular maxim credited to Churchill which contains a great deal of relevance to our present situation in Jamaica as we are …
We live and are impacted by history
Many people do not like history.. They find it boring, irrelevant, and therefore form negative opinions of it. Some are so anti-history that they refuse to even address the topic when …
We’re dry sitting by a wood pile awaiting a spark
My last article put forward the theoretical pros and cons of the proposed NIDS possible downsides and the handling of personal information in a secure manner in real life rather than …
Data As A Public Good
COVID-19 and its devastating effect on the education industry, more than anything else, has revealed the scandalous system of education apartheid that exists in our country. The quite proper closure of …