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President Nicolás Maduro greets pro-government supporters during a meeting after a referendum regarding Venezuela’s claim to Essequibo, a region administered and controlled by Guyana, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Government’s fawning at the feet of Jamaica’s latest political masters caused it to rush to Israel’s “defence” after the October 7 Hamas’ terrorist attack. Two months later, as Israel’s genocidal over-reaction continued unabated, Government...
In this 2018 photo of the Caribbean Maritime University graduation Drolor Bosso Adamtey (left) presents former Minister of Education Ruel Reid with a laser etched Plaque, Fritz Pinnock (right)

In a bygone era of my life, the symphony of collaboration had resonated harmoniously with the brilliant Dr Joan Spencer (Rowe) Ernandez, a luminary I met at the Mico CARE centre. Alongside us stood the astute data analyst, David Noel, forming a...
Stocks and Securities Limited office

Is it possible for this small country to absorb any more embarrassment? First Stocks and Securities (SSL) was infiltrated by a person or a compendium of individuals months ago. At that time, very few of us would have even heard of the investment...

Imagine a natural disaster that can potentially drive up the cost of food, energy, and retail items while negatively impacting manufacturing, tourism, exports, bank interest rates and even inflation, and basically impacting the whole of the...

In a world grappling with flailing social complexities, the significance of compassion and emotional learning (mCEL) has never been more apparent. mCEL, my strongly advocated examinable process (by CE, PEP, CSEC, CAPE, and the like) for acquiring...

There is a new development in public health in Jamaica – one that has been years in the making and which augurs well for improved access to healthcare, particularly for those persons from rural and underserved areas. It is that our nurses are to be...

Today (November 26), the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will be dead sure that all of the shouting and crowing will be a fitting prelude to another official attempt to seal the Opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) place as king of the backyard...

If you didn’t know you know now that our former enslavers have really done a job on us. For centuries we were indoctrinated in Anglo-Saxon superiority using educational tools such as whips, rifles and nooses. This putrid programming was accompanied...

With global metal producers celebrating aluminium as the green metal of the future, and the consumption of the metal increasing by more than 100 per cent since year 2000, aluminium is now being posted by marketing analysts as the metal with the...

If I speak to 30 people for the week who are highly political, about 18 are likely to give me sound reasons why the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will win, and 16 will definitely tell me that the party does not deserve to win. As for the opposition...
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