Coffee matters: Do the Maths
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee — a brand that has been recognized internationally for hundreds of years. Since the introduction of coffee into the Jamaican landscape, the product has been the favourite …
Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
At the brink of disruptive innovation
The focus on tourism’s earning potential, its importance to our economy, the levels of retention of the gross dollars in the sector, have been the topic of discussions in the media …
From Roman Road to Highway 2000 (Series Finale)
By the time Legal Light won his Derby, the commentary booth was controlled by the wonderful Chris Armond, who brought a whole new style of race calling to the radio in …
Eliminating the gangway to prison
At the commencement of the school year I was silently praying and hoping that this will be the year when violence in schools will, if not totally eliminated, be drastically reduced, …
Of Rape, Incest and Child Sexual Abuse.
It is rape: when you do not receive consent when he/she does not agree when you force consent out of him/her when you do not allow him/her to have a say …
From Roman road to Highway 2000 (Part V)
So, we come to the weight-carrying feats of local champions of yore. No thoroughbred’s career had a chance of being memorable unless it included at least one weight-defying performance fuelling arguments …
Don’t fall for electioneering
Elections are in the air. They will be called earlier than mandated, make no mistake about it. One gets a strong whiff of the stench of campaigning from both parties as …
There’s no cause to embrace mendicancy and mediocrity
Over the past 47 years I have been privileged to participate in the practical areas of business leadership/management; and over the last 5 years I have been more involved as a …
Do education reform and stop hitting the dead horse
Jamaican politicians are notorious for pandering to the gallery and flogging dead horses. We see the pandering all the time: works given out to supporters, glib comparisons about whose party is …
Rushed regulations aggravated by our mendicancy
The processes of laws and regulations that accompany those laws in a modern society should follow a certain identifiable logic. It is not very different to a computer programme that has …