Many Choices In A Rapidly Changing World
What position will Jamaica take in this new world emerging around us? This is not a simple rhetorical question or a hypothetical future being debated on university campuses. This is a …
Economic Self-Interest
Caveat. Your columnist is not a trained economist. There are significant numbers of the private sector in Jamaica, of which your columnist is a member, who have complained of a shortage …
Don’t Be Fooled When Some Nations Talk About Human Rights
Recently, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding came out in an article with full-throated denunciations of the human rights situations in both China and Cuba. In the article he hedges his bets …
Rise Up And Demand A New World
The year 2020 got off to a bang on the international scene as the US and Iran came to the brink of open war. But after the murder of a top …
Do The Government And Opposition Want A Police State?
Horace Chang, Minister of National Security, has, it seems, lost faith in the Jamaican state and its various agencies ability to stem the violence which is now at record heights. That …
Tough Policing Just Does Not And Will Never Work
The lies people will tell in order to get their point across never ceases to boggle the mind. Persons lie about sexual partners, they lie about their wealth and they …
Our broken windows need fixing
Jamaica has a serious crime issue, and it is not relegated to one area of activity. We rank high on corruption, we rank high on the murder charts, we …
If international law is to have any meaning…
Of what use is international law? Does it mean anything, or is it simply a nice phrase which keeps fools warm? It is 52 years since the most …
Hypocritical and illegal acts against Venezuela
The recent movements on the international and diplomatic scenes are jaw-dropping. 34 countries have recently ‘out of the blue’ decided to recognise speaker of the House Juan Guido as …
Venezuela election
Sunday, May 20th 2018 was a landmark date for both Venezuela and the rest of the world. The people of that country stood up to the combined might of the G7 …
Once more unto the breach
The fact that we are here again witnessing the US, UK and France getting involved in the Middle East is both sad, disgusting, enraging and disheartening. That these nations’ leaders could decide to return …