Commentary
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ identification of the inadequacy of a “commercial ecosystem that supports long-term investment” by farmers, correctly diagnosed a critical problem affecting Jamaica’s agriculture sector. But only one of them. And it...
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The long-term effects of childhood trauma have been thoroughly researched and well-documented. One of the first studies on the topic was the ACE (adverse childhood experience) study conducted in the US in the 1990s. The study examined exposure to...
In August 2008 an e-mail popped up from then Gleaner Opinion Editor Colin Steer asking me to write a regular weekly Column for The Gleaner. It came out of the blue, like Thunderstorm Artis’s wife. I didn’t know Colin. He didn’t know me....
On April 24 United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on seabed mining which has major implications for the work of the International Seabed Authority, based in Kingston, Jamaica. The authority as well as most states in the...
For months, I’ve followed public discourse across social media, political commentary, and academic circles on the effectiveness of the state of public emergency (SOE) and other crime-control policies in Jamaica. Unfortunately, much of this...
Parts of our Jamaican language come from broken English. People may say ‘furr’ when they mean ‘far’, and ‘sentance’ when they mean ‘sentence’. Some of us playfully use the broken version as a makeshift superlative. Therefore, when I heard about the...
“Machine!” said the fifth former looking admiringly at the car arriving onto the school compound. An undergraduate on the plantation, said “Nice car, sir,” a comment replicated at a deep rural school, with an over-representation of social...
Mayor Andrew Swaby’s suggestion that the three by-elections for vacant divisions in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) be held at the same time as the imminent vote for the national government is quite sensible and should be...
Given the political differences between the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), it would be easy to see them as totally apart. However, when it comes to politics and ‘poli-tricks’, they are like two peas in a pod. This is why, as I...
“A nation without borders is not a nation.” That is the opening line of an advisory issued by the US Department of State on May 15. It goes on to say, “Our government prioritizes the prosecution of offences for illegal entry and illegal presence in...