Winning Essay: Jamaica At 51 – A True Democracy?
Over the next three Mondays, we will be featuring the top three entries in our Independence/Back-to-School Essay Competition as our Monday Musings posts. This week, we feature the 1st place essay from...
View Article2nd Place Essay: Jamaica At 51 – A True Democracy?
In today’s Monday Musings, we feature the second of the top three entries in our Independence/Back-to-School Essay Competition as our posts. The 2nd place essay was written by Mickella Anderson, a...
View Article3rd Place Essay: Jamaica At 51 – A True Democracy?
In today’s Monday Musings, we feature the final of the top three entries in our Independence/Back-to-School Essay Competition as our posts. The 3rd place essay was written by Keri Morgan, an upper...
View ArticleA Look Behind Leadership Challenges In Jamaica’s Political History
In today’s Monday Musings, we take a look ‘behind the news’ following yesterday’s re-election of Andrew Holness as the leader of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Jamaica is known for fiercely...
View ArticleThe PM And The Press – Part 2
November 24-29 is being marked as National Journalism Week, under the theme ‘Persevering in the face of adversity.’ The commemoration of National Journalism Week this year comes at a time when members...
View ArticleCorruption – Jamaica’s National Plague
If you ask Jamaicans to name the one thing preventing the country from actualising its potential, the answer you are most likely to receive is ‘corruption.’ It is rampant at just about every level and...
View ArticleDare To Care – Continue The Support For The Bustamante Children’s Hospital
Thousands of Jamaicans flocked to the King’s House lawns on Saturday, January 4, for the fourth staging of the Shaggy & Friends benefit concert, in aid of the Bustamante Hospital for Children...
View ArticleMonday Musings – The CHASE Fund and Sports in Jamaica
Due to reports of almost having the quest for a Cool Runnings 2 dashed due to lack of funding, diGJamaica takes a look at the dedicated fund for sports in Jamaica – the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports...
View ArticleQuick Facts About Third World
It is a sad start to Reggae Month as many fans around the world woke up to sad news this morning, as we learned that William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke, the lead singer of the band Third World, passed away...
View ArticleIs Coal the Answer to Jamaica’s Energy Crisis?
Last January, the government of Jamaica finally ended it’s decade-long flirt with the idea of introducing liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the solution to the country’s high electricity prices, but the...
View Article6 Champs 2014 Records In Context
The 2014 staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Championships ended on Saturday night with Calabar High School retaining its title from 2013 and Edwin Allen High School taking its second...
View ArticleIs Jamaica Happy Or Miserable?
According to Measuring Misery Around the World, a recently published report from the US-based public policy research organisation the Cato Institute, Jamaica is the fifth most miserable country on the...
View ArticleHurricane Season: Better To Be Prepared
Every June, millions of people in the regions of the Caribbean Seas, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic Ocean brace themselves for the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins on the first of the...
View ArticleExploring Desalination
Jamaica is currently caught in the grips of a severe drought, said to be caused by the effects of climate change, coupled with the El Niño phenomenon that occurs when a vast pool of water in the...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC – A Quick Guide To The Mt. Rosser Bypass: Highway 2000
The North-South leg of Highway 2000 was officially opened on Monday, August 4. Those who regularly travel between Kingston and Ocho Rios are rejoicing as they now have to option to bypass the winding...
View ArticleA Brief Look At Police-Citizen Relations In Jamaica
The issue of police-citizen relations in Jamaica is never far from the headlines, what with numerous allegations of extra-judicial killings and other instances of brutality. Occasionally, we do see a...
View ArticleScenes From International Coastal Cleanup Day 2014
Saturday, September 20th, marked the 26th anniversary of International Coastal Cleanup Day. Each year, hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world come together to clean up beaches, lakes and...
View ArticleWalk Good, John Holt
The Jamaican music fraternity had yet reason to mourn yesterday as news reached the island that another reggae legend, John Holt, had passed away. Holt, popular for hits such as Love I Can Feel, Stick...
View Article8 Questions We Need Answered In 2015
What does 2015 hold for Jamaica? The Gleaner has published 87 prophecies from several members of the clergy (click here, here and here). While we wait to see how these prophecies unfold, here are eight...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Marriage & Divorce In Jamaica By The Numbers
This week’s Sunday Gleaner lead story shared some facts and figures that may have come as a surprise to some people: Jamaica’s divorce rate has increased while its marriage rate is decreasing. This...
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