Category: Opinion
IMF, Simpson-Miller – Fixing an Economy of Exclusion, and a Wasteland of Discarded Potential
The visit of Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund to Jamaica June 25 – 27, represents a game changer from the almost Continue reading
Big Brother Software Giants and the Dumbing Down of Society
Bill Gates is busy saving people in Africa with vaccines but the company he founded is creating a new technological poor over here in the Continue reading
The Saga of a Mississauga River Community
What’s the point of voting if what really counts is money? It’s as though casting a ballot is really giving away a franchise rather than Continue reading
Wanted Dead or Alive
The archetypal Western movie, “Gunfight at the OK Corral” was based on a 30-second gun battle in the aptly-named town of Tombstone between the Earp Continue reading
The British Are Slumming! The British Are Slumming!
The last British Governor of Trinidad and Tobago left as his legacy a dump and a highway. The dump symbolizes the way in which the Continue reading
From Cuba With Peace
In the aftermath of the January 28 and 29 second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in Havana, Cuba, the Continue reading
Simplistic, Sounds Good, So Not The Right Way
Lately, there has been any number of comments, posts and threads about “the crime problem” in Jamaica. In this case, “the crime problem” relates to Continue reading
Fifty-plus Years Ago
More than fifty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and delivered his now famous and Continue reading
A Syrian War? Let the US Fight the Wars at Home First
A guest column warns the USA to consider fighting its own wars at home ahead of the possibility to joining an incursion into Syria’s domestic conflict.
Trayvon Martin – The Loss of Liberty and Life
It seems the American dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is becoming a closed domain. The Statue of Liberty, gifted by the Continue reading