To get from Kingston to most places on the north coast, we normally travel over the famous Flat Bridge. Built around 1725, it still accommodates modern-day traffic with cars and lorries exiting it to traverse the scenic Bog Walk gorge.The Jamaica...
Last Tuesday, my column ('Bloodsuckers') highlighted the latest example of taxpayer sacrifice on the altar of revenue cash flow, namely the 'new' 3% 'withholding tax'.Like any good lawyer, using 700 words where 70 would do, I eventually got around...
This week, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist camp, I knew what I had to do, but I did not know where to start. Should I write about the pigeon suspected of being a 'spy' for the Pakistani authorities?The Times of India story is that a 14-year-old...
On May 12, 2015, two hundred and twelve years after the Haitian revolutionaries inflicted a crushing defeat on Napoleon’s armies, and shook the world with the Declaration of Independence of the first Black Republic, President Francois...
Now before you Shandy-bottle me, hear me out.There is a very real and present classism in Jamaica that we as a people are touchy about - as we should be. Too many times, we see blatant instances where those born into the privilege of inherited...
One Saturday afternoon long ago, Gene Autry and I sat down for a domino game against The Beast and The Dunce.The Dunce began, as usual, with his mantra, 'If a macca, mek it jook yu!', then smoothly segued into "A dis macca me a go jook yu wid" as...
I read with strong disapproval the headline in the May 31, 2015 edition The Sunday Gleaner which claimed 'Aubyn Hill to pay $46m'. The court ruling to which you referred is a case involving NationGrowth and the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ)....
With former CONCACAF President and FIFA vice-president Austin 'Jack' Warner, as well as the man who was his immediate successor in those two prestigious positions, Jeff Webb, being two of the most prominent figures at the centre of the scandal that...
It has always been a singular pleasure and privilege to interact with any Holding. The family has been highly respected and indeed, revered from the days, sisters, Rheima (Lady Hall) and Dr Marjorie (Mrs Jeffrey Cobham) were guests of senior Jamaica...
In some sports, it is hardly ever heard of athletes being violent or rude during events. Athletics, swimming and gymnastics are examples. In other sports, violence is quite common, team sport in particular. However, it is debatable whether sport is...
A recent editorial in the prestigious Wall Street Journal titled 'If FIFA ran the World' opined that if FIFA did indeed run the world, 'We could expect a global culture of greasy palms that would inevitably lure some Americans into bribery ethic....
It's time to find out if Cliff Williams, despite the ravages of anno domini, remains educable. It doesn't appear so from his May 10 article ('Gordon Robinson galloping above his handicap') in which he rambled; failed to address the issues; and, in a...
As Greece advised the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it would not be able to meet its due payment and the bolivar went into free fall in Venezuela, four of the world's biggest banks were fined more than US$5 billion after pleading guilty to...
Parenting is such a crucial and impactful job, but it's one for which there are no mandatory qualifications. Yet lives can - and are - literally destroyed if the job is bungled.An important study by the US National Academy of Sciences shows that "...
Published:Friday | May 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMContributor
During her presentation of the damning 47-count indictment in the FBI's criminal investigation on FIFA, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch asserted that many of the individuals who were expected to uphold the rules that keep soccer honest...
How to position the nation in a globalising world is a crucial imperative for Jamaica. With the thawing of relations between our neighbour Cuba and the United States, and the anticipated rise in tourists and investors to the Spanish-speaking...
We often hear that the female of the species is deadlier than the male. Instead of reaching for a cigarette or some other herbal relaxant, female tarantulas devour and eat their male sex partners, a case of having dinner after rather than before....
In his Sectoral presentation to Parliament on May 29, National Security Minister Peter Bunting said, inter alia, "MOCA (Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency) is the vanguard agency for detection and investigation of criminal kingpins,...
Foster's Fairplay paid a self-mandated visit last week to Shelly's CAFE on the campus of Jamaica's University of Technology (UTech).This was in continuance of an unannounced mission statement to support anything or anyone who in this column's...
The 2015 World Champion-ships sprint off in the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing China in the last week of August, the same historic venue where Usain St Leo Bolt propelled himself to superstardom with his marauding record-breaking performances in the...
It is my understanding that track and field athletes throughout the world value Olympic glory above all other victories in the sport.The Olympics, however, only takes place every four years. In the intervening years there is the biennial World...
A major 201-page US Religious Landmark study was released by the authoritative Pew Research Center last Tuesday showing that Christians have been declining sharply as a percentage of the American population, while the number of atheists, agnostics...
Decolonisation is a process by which nation states reduce their dependency on institutions, structures and processes imposed, copied or inherited from the colonial experience. The ultimate aim is to fashion such to reflect the local realities.The...
Political polarisation occurs when an individual's stance and/or vote on a particular issue is dictated solely by identification with a political party and normally occurs in societies such as ours which subscribe to a two-party political system.The...
It's official.The director of public prosecutions (DPP) is of the view that egregious nepotism by a public officer in high public office is not corruption. I kid you not.The loud, rumbling noise you hear isn't coming from Caribbean Fault seismic...
