CAMBRIDGE – On June 5, the world’s leading economies announced an agreement that will bolster their ability to raise taxes on global corporations. The agreement still needs formal approval from a wider set of countries, and there remain...
LAUSANNE – Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious resources it contains. We do so not necessarily because we lack ecological...
LONDON – This year must mark a global turning point. Whereas international cooperation often failed in 2020, we now have an opportunity – and the responsibility – to usher in a new era in which a healthier, greener, safer, and...
NEW YORK – Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties. Has US President Joe Biden’s administration risked overheating the economy with its $1.9 trillion rescue...
GENEVA (ILO News) – The labour market crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and employment growth will be insufficient to make up for the losses suffered until at least 2023, according to a new assessment by the...
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, maybe worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s lineup of cartoons as...
The cancelling of the Grade Nine Achievement Test, while on the face of it, could be perceived as a kindness to students, who likely fall high among the 120,000 missing students since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the island...
They say numbers never lie and at the rate the country’s children are getting pregnant, those numbers say Jamaica has a problem. The very real problem of a culture of silence and almost acceptance has seen the continued rise of sex...
Jamaica has had the fastest man alive for the majority of the last two decades, but it was not until just this week past, that the island nation could boast of having achieved the same feat among women. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at a sprightly 34...
At least one member of our elite intelligentsia is screaming at what could be construed as hypocrisy on the part of women leaders in the face of bourgeoning gender-based violence. Dr Maziki Thame has never been shy about speaking her mind on issues...
Andrea Gordon will be paying for her crime for a lot longer than the seven and a half years she was sent to prison for after pleading guilty to defrauding the National Commercial Bank out of approximately $34 million. Gordon, who has admitted to...
Whenever the Institute of Jamaica awards Musgrave medals, the moment must be cherished for these awardees represent the best Jamaica has to offer. And not just the best for an instant either. These awardees have proven over the course of their,...
Abusers, it is said, have always depended on the abused to forgive and forget, that is, until the next attack. So it may not have come as a complete shock when Stephina Ralston asked for clemency for the man who viciously cut her because she tried...
Filmmaker, Cecile Emeke, turned her first short film ‘Ackee & Saltfish’ into an online web series. Around the same time, she published her independently produced documentary series ‘Strolling’ on YouTube. In so doing,...
Jeanine McIntosh Menze inked her way into the annals of history, becoming the first black female aviator in the history of the United States (US) Coast Guard. McIntosh Menze was born in Kingston, Jamaica and spent her earlier days as a student at...
With the future of the country’s national airline uncertain, Audrey Marks wanted to leave Air Jamaica after 10 years. But the proposed separation terms were unfavourable. Marks, in her 20s at the time, didn’t surrender. She hired an...
Alethea Plummer noticed the severity of her patient’s ulcers, and her will as a nurse intensified. She monitored and dressed wounds twice daily and patients recovered quickly. A high patient-recovery rate is common at the Hyacinth Lightbourne...
It isn’t often that flooding is a problem for the Western end of the island even though there are a number of rivers that have been taken over by the various developments. That does, however, mean, that when there is, oh boy! An almost...
In every growing democracy, the question of how much power should a State seek to exert in the name of development be entertained. Certainly, without the State wielding some say-so over the industries that serve to drive an economy, there would be...
Of course, everybody who has come of age on the island knows the importance of 1962 to Jamaica, but the instance of independence in August 1962 began long before that. The Union Jack being brought down in favour of the hoisting of the Black, Green...
One of the world’s biggest pageants is the Miss International competition, and with Jamaica’s history in multicultural beauty jousting, there is no wonder, Jamaica has also made entrances there. In 1970, we tried to make the trip to the...
In 1974, a slew of changes from the then Jamaican government, ushered in a new era of quasi-socialism for Jamaica. Free uniforms, minimum wage limits, investment in agriculture, and, importantly, the reverting of bauxite lands, back into Jamaican...
A comedian has travelled the world looking for places with rude names. Nicholas Hale has spent 26 years posing for images in locations across the globe such as Yorkey's Knob in Australia and Shitterton in Dorset. Some of the British locations...
Short-sighted people sleep worse than those with normal vision, a study has found. Researchers from Flinders University in Australia revealed that people with myopia get poorer quality sleep than those with normal vision due to delayed circadian...
A Bob Dylan record has been returned to a library in Ohio 48 years overdue. Sara Phillips, manager of the University Heights Library, explained how a package containing Dylan's 'Self Portrait album arrived in the post recently. She said:...
