At 16 years old, Millie Small was already a superstar. When she came home towards the end of July in 1964, having already published her biggest hit, ‘My Boy Lollipop’, Jamaicans all over made her aware of just how appreciated she was....
Vision for a greater future is something only few people think about, but it is interesting to see how the plans and actions of a generation, lead to the very normal advances another enjoys many years later. Welcome the Norman Manley International...
There are a great many moments and names that have added to Jamaica’s proud history at the Olympics but just shy of 50 years ago, there were four who performed such a feat, that their lives would never be the same again. Arthur Wint, Leslie...
An Olympic fencer received a marriage proposal after losing her match. Maria Belen Perez Maurice's hopes of winning a medal for Argentina in Tokyo were dashed after she was beaten in the women's sabre individual but her mood was improved...
As the world gradually reopens following lockdown restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, sex party organisers Killing Kittens suggest they’ve never been busier. Founder Emma Sayle told LADbible: "Back in April we released tickets...
Sophisticated sex robots will make humans better lovers, an expert has predicted. Simon Dube, who specialises in Erobotics - the study of erotic interaction between humans and machines - explained that a new breed of cyborgs will boost performance...
A businessman has taken a stand against customers paying with cash stashed in their bras. Bedding salesman Michael Flynn has become frustrated with customers paying with money stored in their bras as temperatures soar in Dublin amid a heatwave and...
A man attempted to match with Olympic athletes on Tinder. Comedian Reed Kavner used the Tinder Passport feature in a bid to find love with someone competing at the Tokyo games. As he virtually headed to the Olympic Village, Kavner joked: "I...
BOSTON – Although economics uses mathematical models and machine-learning techniques, it is still a social science. But compared to most other disciplines, the profession does not even come close to representing the societies we live in. In...
NEW YORK – The summer of 2021 has come to be largely defined by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change. Both are manifestations of globalization and the reality of a world increasingly defined by the vast and fast cross...
MUNICH – Automobile and electronics manufacturers worldwide have recently had to reduce output because a severe drought in Taiwan has hit the island’s production of semiconductors. This and other global supply-chain disruptions –...
DHAKA – From 1990 to 2019, the number of people living in extreme poverty (according to the World Bank threshold of $1.90 per day) plummeted, from 1.9 billion to 648 million. COVID-19 has reversed much of this progress. By the end of 2021,...
MEXICO CITY – In the Caribbean, summer is when things happen. As the weather heats up and hurricanes pass through, passions tend to flare and crises erupt. Yet such crises rarely occur in more than one country at a time, and the dangers they...
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...
British High Commissioner, Asif Ahmad, did not hold back when speaking about corruption in Jamaica, pointing the finger at politicians as being major players in the gun-running ‘industry’. But he did hold back on where the information...
Jamaicans were a massive part of Britain’s rebuild after World War II and the generation that did that, the Windrush generation, is being memorialised inside Waterloo Station in central London. It is interesting that three of the designs...
With just weeks to go before the Reggae Boyz jump into their latest challenge, qualification for the World Cup, but there is still uncertainty. Not the usual uncertainties, which squad to pick, what formation to use and the like. It is where they...
The name Keith Brown is a significant one in Jamaica in a variety of areas. Brown, who passed last week has left legacies in broadcast journalism and the sport of boxing. He was missed after his retirement but his influence remained. There is no...
According to Julian Robinson, Opposition spokesman on finance, those who played a part in the Airport Authority of Jamaica’s investment in start-up, First Rock Capital Holdings should be sacked. With the mounting instances where there have...
“Spare the rod spoil the child,” or variations of it has been a sort of guiding principle of parenting in Jamaica. But maybe not for much longer, as the Prime Minister is backing the banning of corporal punishment after the death of a...
A quiet debate has been raging for the last two weeks regarding whether or not unnecessary colonial legacies have driven schools, in particular, to be unfairly critical of students decisions to wear certain hairstyles or whether or not those...
The link between politics and crime in Jamaica has always been posited in hushed tones. But now, a senior United Kingdom official has admitted openly that many of the investigations coming out of that country into gun-running on Jamaican...
Tomorrow marks 30 years since Nelson and Winnie Mandela visited Jamaica. The occasion gave validation to the efforts Jamaica had put into the anti-Apartheid movement. Jamaica was one of the most vocal about maintaining international...
Jamaica’s National Anthem, created by Hugh Sherlock, was an instant hit, with many recognising the significance of having an all-Jamaican cast as the producers of the content. That fact was not automatic in 1962 and the National Anthem...
When George Rhoden and Herb McKenley crossed the tape of a 400-metre race at the same time in Helsinki, Poland almost 69 years ago to the day, it created a tradition for a little country at the Olympics. Whenever we were there, we would leave a...
