Unfortunately, during the funeral of Stephen ‘Franno’ Francis, I was in Shanghai on my way to Beijing, where, in 2008, Jamaican athletes painted the Bird’s Nest Stadium and the entire city in black,…
It is nearing 10 months since Hurricane Melissa battered western Jamaica, exposing some of the island’s vulnerabilities. But the tragedy also highlighted something else: how, in the midst of a crisis,…
In my days moving around for different companies, I found out that Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world and the second-largest in South America. I found out that there was a “bimbo”…
I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional…
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has declared the pilot of its modular exam and certification in mathematics an unqualified success. So, it is now full speed ahead for the unrestricted…
Last Monday – August 17 – was the birthday of Jamaica’s first declared National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), a truly great Jamaican. He had his flaws (as do all of us) but the cause he…
While women across the globe were having an average of five children in 1960, they are now having an average of two. This is a global phenomenon and not simply a local one. This is important to…
This newspaper has long supported the deployment of closed-circuit cameras in public spaces as tools to help fight and deter crime. When a crime takes place and the incident is recorded, that video…
There is consensus among social scientists that education is the most critical vehicle for development. Among its by-products are employment, social stability and character formation. However, in…