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President Barack Obama used the N-word during an interview released Monday to make a point that there's still plenty of room for America to combat racism.The CNN story continued, "Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not...

As I walked around the Diaspora Conference last week in Montego Bay, it was very apparent that my peers were missing. Those members of the diaspora in attendance were pushing the age average well above 50. I saw very few persons who were below 35,...

What if, on that fateful day some years ago, the Ministry of Education had placed me at Camperdown High instead of Campion College?What if I had attended a so-called 'technical' high school in the inner city instead of an iconic uptown institution...

It's crunch time. One in three adults worldwide is overweight, a pandemic of two billion people courting diabetes, stroke, pneumonia, heart disease and cancer. That's our top five killers lined up like the Grim Reaper's firing squad, with the entire...

Positioning Jamaica as the fourth node in the global logistics chain is not a choice but an imperative if this tiny island nation is to have any chance of surviving this inhospitable global trading system. Jamaica's competitive advantage rests in...

In two previous articles I put forward valid reasons the single market and economy, the centrepiece of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, is unachievable, and suggested the need for CARICOM to be reconfigured and repurposed.The Gleaner, in its...

Whoever said life has its ups and downs was referring more to my weight than my fate. I am a yo-yo or hi-lo dieter, constantly up and down the food and supermarket chains.Recently, when I returned to Trinidad, I found that my waistline was within...

Some fathers don't deserve a happy Father's Day. There was an exchange I once overheard. A woman said, "Pickney a problem," and a man in earshot retorted, "Only if you put dem pon yu head." It was a very loaded comment. One of complete apathy shared...