WASHINGTON, DC – Bitcoin and other privately issued cryptocurrencies have generated a frenzy of excitement, with most of the analysis focused on their appeal and apparent drawbacks. But relatively less attention has been paid to an even more...
LONDON – Pedro Castillo is an authoritarian left-wing populist without the charm or charisma of most populists. Keiko Fujimori is a recently incarcerated right-wing populist, the daughter of a former dictator who is serving a 25-year sentence...
WASHINGTON, DC – Latin America and the Caribbean need a hard reset. With less than one-tenth of the world's population, the region has accounted for more than one-quarter of total COVID-19 deaths. The pandemic continues to rage almost...
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, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past's line up of cartoons as...
Kamina Johnson Smith's assertions that she was cyber-harassed has left a cloud over a number of parliamentarians and there is need to clear the air. Not just that, but there is also the issue of showing women who have been the victims of...
The Jamaica Boxing Board oversees a sport that has been hard hit by COVID-19. A most decidedly contact sport, there hasn't been a way for the sport to survive under these conditions. But now, a lifeline might be in the distance, that is if the...
In the wake of a Gleaner story that revealed the way teachers had been 'helping' students get good grades on their School-Based Assessment, the island's universities have come out to point out that the high school experience has not...
The case of former senior manager at the National Commercial Bank, Andrea Gordon, was big news when it broke in June of 2020. The 52-year-old made headlines again during her trial when she admitted her guilt and the court heard details of the way...
There was always going to be a significant hit taken by the organisers of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships, given the no-fan status of the recently approved affair. But the figure of $45 million still comes as...
A University of the West Indies-led research unit are claiming to have found a breakthrough in the treatment of COVID-19, using Menthol Crystal. The treatment, while not a replacement for the need to vaccinate the country, could dramatically reduce...
Jamaica is struggling to handle a crime problem and now there is the added problem of having the United States pay specific attention to one of the areas the country seems to have excelled. The US now has particular players in the scamming '...
The story of persons who have excelled in one field or the other, usually begins with the honing of their skill at tender ages. Patricia Judith Maryla Ricketts' story is different. It is not until she was an adult, 18 years old, that Ricketts...
Despite being once married to the most public of figures, Jamaica's fourth Prime Minister, Michael Manley, Patricia Glynne-Manley could be considered, quiet. That isn't to say she never had a contribution to make to building the island...
Linnette Vassell has paved the way for many during a fight for women's rights in the region that begun as far back as the early 1970s. She was the first Coordinator of the Committee of Women for Progress, (CWP) a left-wing activist organisation...
Helene Davis Whyte (born 1956) is a trade union activist and the general secretary of the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO), which represents 5,000 workers in local and national government and quasi-...
Bishop Christine Gooden-Benguche is the first appointed female president of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas, Jamaica District. She is the successor to Bishop Everald Galbraith, who headed the Jamaica Methodist District for...
The leaders of a combined population of 900 million visited Jamaica for the 1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. Notwithstanding that Jamaica’s prime minister at the time, Michael Manley, was the organisation’s chairman, the...
The charismatic fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica was most well known for his championship of the disenfranchised and the disadvantaged. Michael Manley wasn’t happy with trying to achieve change in the country he led though. Manley, in the way...
The Norman Manley Law School, like neighbouring institutions like the University Hospital of the West Indies, match up with the best in the world. Maybe the Queen’s blessing in 1975 has something to do with that. Food for thought. Published...
With the litany of human rights abuse allegations that international organisations have hit Jamaica with makes this story, dating all the way back to 1967, interesting. There aren’t many who, having not been around in 1967, would believe the...
India’s gift of vaccines to Jamaica should not have been surprising, since the countries pledged friendship with each other as far back as 1966. Even before that, the link between India and Jamaica, with indentured labourers coming to the...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:44 PMBANG Bizarre
A football team had their training interrupted after an alligator invaded their pitch. Toronto FC were holding a training session in Florida earlier this week when the reptile wandered out onto the field. A clip posted on YouTube shows players...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:31 PMBANG Bizarre
A man purchased Argentina's Google domain name after the site went down. Nicolas Kurona was able to buy the domain for just £2 through a perfectly legal process, much to his surprise. Kurona revealed that he was working on a client's...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:19 PMBANG Bizarre
A group of builders were horrified after finding human remains buried under a patio. Robbie Kearney made the gruesome discovery as he was digging a soak-a-way hole for the drainage under the patio and stopped his work immediately. The five...
Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2021 | 10:15 PMBANG Bizarre
A woman nearly lost her vision after she mistook nail glue for eye drops. Yacedrah Williams went to bed having left her contact lenses in and woke up in the early hours having realised her mistake. However, she grabbed a small bottle of nail glue...
