At this juncture in human history, women and girls who have lived under some of the most repressive regimes might be afforded the window of opportunity to be released from traditions that have robbed them of the ability to develop to their fullest potential. In the CNN-ised global village, we all stood in awe and disbelief when we viewed the dramatic political and social changes that taking place in North Africa and the Middle East.
The minimum requirement for democracy is elections. Haiti is having trouble even meeting those requirements. The country will have another go at it today. It will have a run-off presidential election between Mirlande Manigat and Michel 'Sweet Mickey' Martelly. Many other run-offs will take place between candidates for the legislature as well.
I will begin by explaining some of my cultural involvements and how they have moulded me as a Jamaican, because culture is the most powerful force in shaping people and branding nations. This has proven itself to be unquestionably so for Jamaica.
You can tell a great deal about a country by the way it treats its women and children. The status that they occupy in the hierarchy of the society is usually a good indicator of whether the country is progressive or backward, oppressive or caring. What can we say about Jamaica?
Wigton Windfarm was the brainchild of Dr Raymond Wright, then group managing director of Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ). The idea germinated from the vision of Dr Anthony Chen who pioneered electric power from wind-energy research in Jamaica.
Between 2006 and 2010, CARICOM countries saw women rising to powerful political positions in three of the 'Big Four' countries in CARICOM, plus another in Haiti. Portia Simpson Miller (Jamaica), Mia Mottley (Barbados) and Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Trinidad and Tobago) became heads of their respective political parties and leaders of their parliamentary Opposition.
The nation had hardly absorbed the latest round of Everald 'Go to Hell' Warmington's crassness, crudeness and boorishness before it was faced with the dramatic explosion between K.D. Knight and Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne, who charged that Knight had told her 31 years ago, "Every Labourite fi dead."
Since the construction of the Six Miles flyover decades ago, access in and out of Kingston on its western side has been greatly streamlined, as traffic leaving the city from either Spanish Town Road or Washington Boulevard can head out non-stop to the countryside along Mandela Highway.
As the Manatt-Coke commission of enquiry rambles on, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is to launch A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in the Short and Medium Term on Tuesday in the same venue that the enquiry is being staged, the Jamaica Conference Centre.
The recent news items in the Jamaica media, and elsewhere, on the researches being undertaken by more than one team of Jamaican scientists into the 'cancer-fighting' or 'anti-cancer properties' of more than one...
In September 2005, then Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and Opposition Leader Bruce Golding signed a Declaration on Political Conduct in Parliament in the presence of the political ombudsman, Bishop Herro Blair.
It's the scene in the high-tension drama we have all been waiting for: The main actor will meet his expected nemesis and we will all be on the edge of our seats to see how the encounter unfolds.
In everyday life, we assume many risks, beginning from the moment we awake to the moment we go to sleep and throughout the night. The fact that we get out of bed safely without breaking a leg, or cross a busy street without getting hit by a motor car, does not mean that these risks did not exist.
Bob Nesta Marley is by far the most famous figure Jamaican music has ever produced. Mention Jamaica, and foreigners who scarcely know in which hemisphere the country is located will cry in recognition, 'Bob Marley!'
Thomas Hobbes would have just loved to be in Libya right now. But he has been dead for a while. Since 1679, in fact. Hobbes, in 1651, published Leviathan, one of the most important and influential books ever published in political philosophy.
In an interview conducted just after his final concert in December 1983, and which was published in Pulse Magazine in June 1984, Peter Tosh asserted: "I a look fe peace.
It was the Tuesday, September 1, 2009 edition of The Gleaner that significantly brought to public light the request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the United States (US) on narcotics and firearm charges.
In every religious domain, every geographical sector of the world, every culture and in every organised human endeavour, the 'maximum patriarch' has historically declared war on everyone who was privileged to be born with a vagina.
Mark Myrie, better known to all of us as Buju Banton, being found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, knowingly and...
"Driver, don't stop at all/ drop this Arizona roun' a Alba Mall/ Driver, don't even hitch/ collect da likkle food deh yah and come back quick/ Driver, just rememba di damn speed limit/ caaw if yuh run in di Feds, my friend, dat is it." - Buju...
