EXIT the toll road from Caymanas, St Catherine at Mammee Bay, St Ann, in half a minute turn right and plunge into a world of modern hospitality, the latest iteration of Sandals Resorts…
Donna-Marie Wynter-Adams | STEM is vehicle for future not a destination
In recent times, there has been much discourse about the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, and STEM education. The general interpretation seems to be of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as a…
Mark Wignall | Big pay increase – accountability next?
Based on polls over the years and an acute understanding of our people’s religious, social, and cultural predispositions it was a given, born out of reality that both the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)…
Oran Hall | What executors do
A person who makes a will – a testator – is required to name at least one executor in the will. The executor is the personal representative of the deceased and is responsible…
Bridging the AI regulation gap
On March 22, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of generative artificial intelligence systems, citing the potential dangers to humanity. Since the…
Oil drilling project near mouth of Amazon River rejected by Brazil’s environmental regulator
Brazil’s environmental regulator has rejected a licence for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River that had drawn strong opposition from activists who warned of its potential…
Imani Tafari-Ama | Rape is no laughing matter
One in four women in Jamaica experiences sexual violence at least once in their lives. UN Women also reports that Jamaica has one of the highest rates of rape in the Caribbean. Many…
Christopher Tufton | Fierce urgency to tackle the NCDs problem
Martin Luther King, in his famous 1963 speech ‘I have a dream’, noted ‘the fierce urgency of now’ while cautioning against what he called ‘the luxury of cooling off or to take the…
Gordon Robinson | Jamaica republic should be for the public
So Government’s dog and pony show (a.k.a. Constitutional Reform) is now in full swing. Or, more fittingly, full see-saw. Because fundamental flaws in the process are so contrary that every rise in the…
Tech, digital push driving remittances to new normal
Over the past five years, the remittance market has seen the “steady adoption of new technologies”, and as more persons opt for the formal system to transfer money to family members, there is…