In Focus

The 71-year old Peter Mandelson was recently fired as Britain’s Ambassador to the United States (US) amidst more revelations of his close ties with American financier and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson described the paedophile...

In virtually every Caribbean household there is a tin or bag of mixed nuts, often presented to visitors at Christmas or stashed away for special occasions. The contents are never uniform. Some nuts are large, others small; some have shells that are...

“Andrew gwine lose him seat,” she said to me. It was September 3, election night, and many were nervous as would be expected. Count me among them. “No, pretty girl,” I said. “It’s just an imbalance of votes as they come in. And the count....

When the Caribbean mounted its bold response to HIV in the 1990s and early 2000s, it did so with the heavy backing of external donors. Through shared responsibility and global solidarity, the World Bank, PEPFAR, the Global Fund, and other partners...

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Banana Ground, Manchester, Jamaica is arguably the greatest female sprinter the world has ever seen. For the purpose of the analysis below, I am excluding the records held by Florence Griffith- Joyner. The 100m and the...

By way of YouTube, last week I heard a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) intellectual and pragmatist refer to the fullness of the JLP as ‘governmental ‘ administration instead of ‘ruling’ administration as I call it. I do so because political power is...

In the grand arena of global culture, size is not always the determining factor of influence. This is unequivocally proven by our Caribbean island nation of Jamaica. With a population of just under three million, Jamaica stands as a cultural titan...

The dust of the election has settled, and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has emerged victorious in a closely contested race. Congratulations are due to the prime minister Dr. Andrew Holness and the JLP. In moments like these, leadership is not just...

What explains the unified stance on reparation unfolding on both sides of the Atlantic among peoples of African descent? The demand for reparation by the descendants of enslaved and colonised peoples is premised on the need to get redress for the...

While it always occupied more than a little space within the realm of possibilities, I must confess that at times on election day and night it appeared that PM Holness would miss his date with his three-straight-terms destiny. One big bugbear was...

With all of 189 candidates nominated for Wednesday’s election concerns can arise regarding the nomination process. The Constitution [ section 40(2)] provides that no candidate is “qualified to be elected” if he/she is party, whether personally or...

People often ask me, “how can polls be right if I have never been interviewed?”. This is a reasonable question to ask. Ideally, the best way to get the opinion of persons within a country is to do a census, meaning interviewing everyone. That way...