Category: Opinion
Uprooting Corruption – Walker Sticks His Head Out
Walker with Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton at the port in Kingston. There are few public figures in our society that have earned our Continue reading
The Decimation of the Working Class
There is, almost unrecognizable to all but the most discerning, an insidious assault on the working class of Jamaica, since the accession of the Jamaica Continue reading
The Making of Savages
Only one thing provokes more outrage in me than Jamaica’s runaway murder rate, and it’s the pathetic hand-wringing and pseudo self-examination that usually follows a Continue reading
Palin, Portia and Populism
US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin could do with a boost of encouragement amid all the ridicule directed at her intelligence, or supposed lack of Continue reading
The Age of Leaders and Nations
The age of a person or country is generally associated in our minds with growth, development and progress. Progress is measured by relative success or Continue reading
Children Learn what they Live
Dorothy Law Nolie’s reflective poem “Children live what they learn” is worth looking at again, even if you’ve seen it before. Before you ask yourself Continue reading
PNP Leadership Elections and the Fallout
Sometime ago, around the late 80s to early 90s, Bruce Golding left the JLP, when it became obvious to him that he was never going to defeat Continue reading
Laying Waste the Garden
For 30 years I have been painting landscape in one of the great beauty belts of Jamaica, the Garden Parish of St Ann. Since the Continue reading
Of Sand and Silence
A curious silence has descended on the issue of the disappearance of the Coral Spring sand. Since the fire-breathing Minister Samuda belched out threats against Continue reading
2012 in the Cross Hairs
Cheers for de gully creepa Shelly-Ann Fraser’s performance at the Beijing Olympics was an act of subversion. The quintessential underdog – the smallest, youngest, and Continue reading