Many speak about the 1980 elections and its bloody nature. But the seeds of what was to become the most violent elections in Jamaica’s 59-year history had begun to be sown much earlier. In fact, four years earlier, Cabinet begged the Governor...
Jason Whyte’s recovery from being adrift at sea for 17 days was nothing short of miraculous. Surviving on raw fish and water, sometimes from the sea, the 14-year-old should have died. But his will to live was great, even after being forced to...
A woman who is fed up with men says she has fallen in love with an alien. Abbie Bela has claimed that she was recently abducted by extraterrestrials who took her from her flat in London and fell head over heels for one of her captors. Bela told The...
Unhappy marriages can be as deadly for men as smoking, a new study suggests. Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that husbands who were dissatisfied with their marriage were nearly twice as likely to have a fatal stroke as...
A couple who spent 123 days handcuffed to each other split up as soon as they were freed. Viktoria 'Vika' Pustovitova and Alexander 'Sasha' Kudlay linked themselves together back on Valentine's Day to test their bond but it...
Towns in Australia have been left blanketed in cobwebs after spiders fled from flooding. Images and videos captured in the Gippsland region of Victoria show fields and homes in the area covered in spider silk. The webs result from a phenomenon...
A mind-reading helmet will enable humans to connect their minds to artificial intelligence by 2030, a biohacker has claimed. Bryan Johnson has developed the helmet that he hopes can provide an exact picture of what's happening inside the human...
JOHANNESBURG – For all its devastation, the COVID-19 crisis does have a silver lining: it has shone a spotlight on important policy lapses – beginning with the lack of social protection for the world’s two billion informal workers...
NEW YORK – Recently, the US podcaster-provocateur Joe Rogan made headlines by saying that, given America’s current cultural trajectory, straight white men will eventually no longer be “allowed to go outside.” On the other...
GENEVA – Fifty years ago this week, US President Richard Nixon declared that drug abuse was “public enemy number one” requiring a “tough on crime” approach in the United States and abroad. The “war on drugs,...
AUSTIN – In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s...
STOCKHOLM – At the recent G7 summit in Cornwall, Sir David Attenborough described the decisions currently facing the world’s richest countries as “the most important in human history.” He is right. The summit was held...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, maybe worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s lineup of cartoons as...
Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert has caught the ire of The Gleaner's newsroom once again. That newsroom, championing the pluses of a healthy democracy, has challenged the Speaker of the House's motives for some of her pronouncements and, indeed,...
Uber’s entrance into the marketplace has caused great consternation among stakeholders in the taxi undustry. But is this a case of a sort of monopoly crying foul after the proposition of competition? Published June 16, 2021 UBER ALARM Ride-...
There was every expectation that stakeholders in the dancehall industry would have come out in condemnation of the comments made by Jamaica Labour Party Senator Charles Sinclair. But, the dancehall cohort has been fairly quiet in the wake of his...
The news that Paul Hall, a bonafide hero of Jamaica’s 1998 World Cup Campaign, will be joining the Reggae Boyz as assistant to another member of that team has been met with a fair amount of optimism. Maybe we believe in symbols, but is Hall...
The resignation of George Wright from the Jamaica Labour Party and his intention to remain in the job as a Member of Parliament has not gone smoothly and there continues to be no end in sight to that drama, even in his absence. Published June 16,...
There has always been a healthy, or unhealthy stream of people out of Jamaica. But now police say a link between Jamaica and the Bahamas as a route to the United States is becoming ever-more popular. The side of Jamaica that would force somebody to...
When an order for the extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke came to the courts of Jamaica, the response of then Prime Minister Bruce Golding brought into sharp focus the inter-national laws that applied to such requests and whether or...
An appropriate dress code for work, school, home, parties, you name it, have always been in question in Jamaica. This is largely because those cultural norms, though longstanding, may not be our own. Last week, the oldest school in the...
Jamaicans from all walks of life understood the importance of the visit of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, making the Civil Rights leader feel right at home with throngs of support wherever he went throughout his visit. The fact that he was given the...
The black-American man behaves a certain way. His boisterous, maybe overly confrontational nature is often misunderstood here in the Caribbean and here is why. The experience of the freed slaves of the Caribbean, though not without challenges, was...
There was a time when technological advancement held high priority on the island of Jamaica. A time when the country did not just look to survive troubling economic waters but sought to invest in innovation and that idea of creating a future the...
West Indies batsman Clyde Walcott, one of the famous three Ws, stamped his class on the world of cricket in no uncertain terms, putting himself forward as one of the greatest cricketers around at a time when West Indies cricket, certainly on the...
