After clumsy initial communications between the Government and the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, (JTA), the parties have come to a stalemate. The minister of finance threw down the gauntlet: $12 billion, take it or…
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Lance Neita | An injunction not only on mining but on huge chunk of economy
With the country reeling from the body blows by the recent upsets in the financial services sector, another mounting crisis looms from a recent Supreme Court ruling that restricts a bauxite mining company…
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Public health cannot be sacrificed for economic development
In January 2023, the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica granted injunctive relief to nine claimants who requested that bauxite mining not continue in sections of St Ann and Trelawny until the constitutional…
Christopher Tufton | Cornwall Regional Hospital transformation will take time
TRANSFORMATION IS a process that collects its dues in time and effort, and the Government is transforming the Cornwall Regional Hospital. Therefore, with the necessary rescoping of work at the facility – not…
Gordon Robinson | Mental slavery is alive and well
So far (time of writing Wednesday) the Budget debate’s main feature was an unattractive contest for best Garveyite. Nigel Clarke started it. He produced a theatrical performance suggesting JLP loves Garvey/Garveyism more than…
Mark Wignall | Political change creeps, then it leaps
As impressive as the then unknown Senator Barack Obama’s speech in October of 2002 was, one would have had to be close to end-stage delusion to suggest that he would win the US…
Verene Shepherd | ‘Groundings’ with Walter Rodney
On March 24 , the Walter Rodney Foundation will host the 20th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium, in Atlanta, Georgia, to mark another anniversary of the birth of Walter Rodney titled “Repairing Historical Injustices:…
Juan González Mijares | Collective fight against illegal guns
Mexico welcomes the support of Caribbean countries in its lawsuit against gun manufacturers and distributors for damages caused by their facilitation of the illegal flow of guns into Mexico and the Latin America…
Gordon Robinson | Budget debate? Or sideshow?
Now the budget debate is over, we can take a comprehensive overview of the entire process. The overwhelming impression each year is one of a political circus rather than any representative assessment of…
Patricia Scotland and Jotham Napat | If we value human rights then we must fight for climate justice
Human life is sacred, and every individual deserves an equal chance in life. We have a common desire: we all want to lead a free, fulfilling existence, with dignity, where our basic needs…