Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:12 AM
Jamaica’s chronic water shortage in rural communities and the impact of neglect on food security is a ticking time bomb. Are we ready to address the crisis, or will history continue to repeat itself? In Lottery, St James, residents have lived for...
Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:11 AM
We are in Christmas week, a period that should be about joy, hope, generosity, peace and love. There has been a very strange build up to this Christmas. There has been the lingering pall of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Melissa in western...
Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the manipulated photos and videos can create a nightmare for...
A few weeks ago, I came across a tweet from Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Daryl Vaz that piqued my interest. It concerned two women in western Jamaica who were approached with care packages in the aftermath of...
For the 14th time I celebrate my days around Gene Autry’s domino table by handing out awards named for the regulars. International Dunce Award: How does Donald Trump not win this award hands down? Elementary, my dear Watson. Firstly, there’s...
In times of crisis a good place to start the search for answers is in history – looking for how similar, or relevant, situations were handled in the past. Having only recently clawed its way back to a path of potential stability and for...
US President Donald Trump recently threatened to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”. Trump has three possible motives for making such a threat: his mercantilist quest for rare-earth minerals, his pandering to...
Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger – an animal feeding bin – "because there was no room for them in the inn". No...
It would be denying the obvious to claim Jamaica’s energy sector isn’t mired in controversy or lacking clarity in its direction. Last week, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) advised peeved consumers that they will have to pay seven per...
There is never a good time for an increase in electricity bills. That is especially true after a hurricane, just before Christmas, and for a service that households and businesses depend on every day. So the frustration following the recent seven...
There is no story in human history more generous and gracious than the Christmas story. That God, the transcendent One, is so besotted in love with all His creation, but especially human beings, that he would come in our poor likeness to show us...
No chimney at my house. No reindeer, despite their resemblance to the Ras’ goats. The man carrying a long bag is a well known smoker of hard drugs and his peers always point him out whenever he is active. On my roof, there is no space for Santa...
Sadly, Donovan Bennett, the president of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), can’t be relied on to prime the moral levers for Kishore Shallow to vacate the presidency of Cricket West Indies (CWI). Dr Bennett has no ethical concerns, and sees no...
The International Centre for Academic Integrity alludes to five fundamental values necessary to sustain integrity in any circumstance: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. As French philosopher Voltaire said, “Every man is...
Lack of land tenure remains a major handicap for over 200,000 families. According to Pearnel Charles Jr in 2020: “People squat for so many reasons, primarily because they don’t have adequate alternatives or have not availed themselves of adequate...
The traditional “Merry Christmas” will not be so for many this year. Their reality has been upended; they lost all that they held dear. Roofs, and homes, possessions, and lives were all taken away, Property and livelihood were lost in less than one...
Hurricane Melissa’s cruel displacement of tens of thousands of people in Jamaica’s western parishes will probably give Jamaicans a sense of the plight of people in other countries who are forced to flee their homes because of political and other...
The recent proclamation issued by the government of the United States, announcing its intention to suspend the entry of nationals of Antigua and Barbuda and the Commonwealth of Dominica, effective at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2026, has...
The Daily Gleaner of November 20, 2025, ran an article entitled ‘Earth Today | Running on Empty’, which featured a photograph of the destroyed teacher’s cottage at Brompton Primary School in St Elizabeth. I lived there in the 1960s with my late...
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign is an international campaign led by the United Nations to challenge violence against women and girls. From 25 November - 10 December, this year’s 16 Days campaign targets how to end...
A few weeks ago, the Consul General of The Bahamas visited Jamaica to support the hurricane relief efforts. The military team which accompanied her did something that was very eye opening. While people across western parishes were relying on...
“May the light of Christian hope illumine every man and woman, as a message of God’s love addressed to all!” — Pope Francis The late Pope Francis declared 2025 to be a Year of Jubilee. This was not an unexpected declaration: in the Catholic...
The United States hasn’t publicly provided a detailed account of its reasoning for placing visa restrictions on Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica over the operation of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programmes. However, there is a palpable sense...
The holiday season is often painted as an idyllic vision of rest, conjuring images of warm beverages and bountiful time with loved ones. But many people have trouble unwinding at this time of year. Why do the December holidays offer the promise of...
