Commentary
Jamaican Creole - More than mistress (linguistic side gyal) material
Posted: Friday, February 14, 2020 - 12:14
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Frankly, it seems like Jamaican Creole is what I will call the linguistic 'side gyal' while English is 'wife material'. The ‘side gyal’, who...
What Koffee's Grammy win teaches us about rejection
Posted: Friday, February 14, 2020 - 12:09
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But who can really deny that Koffee is as addictive as her namesake, leaving even toddlers belting, "Toast! We nuh rise an boast!" Let's not...
Crisis Communication Study: Iran catching up with jetliner crash
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2020 - 13:25
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After three days of denial, the Iranian government and military eventually disclosed that they mistook the...
Reduce inequality to create opportunity
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - 12:13
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Inequality of opportunity. Inequality across generations. Inequality between women and men. And, of course, inequality of income and wealth...
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Senator Haughton’s penchant for misspeaking
Posted: Saturday, January 4, 2020 - 14:52
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In...
EDITORIAL: Old Harbour must avoid the pitfalls of other towns
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 - 22:53
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After all this locale, like many places in Jamaica, was once a thriving community for the Tainos before the arrival of Columbus and his...
End legislative inertia and judicial activism around buggery
Posted: Monday, November 4, 2019 - 22:23
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A consequence of repealing the buggery laws in these countries will be that the homosexual union will be regarded as being equivalent to the...
The World Economy: Synchronized slowdown, precarious outlook
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 10:43
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In the October World Economic Outlook, we are projecting a modest improvement in global growth to 3.4 percent in 2020, another downward...
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Global banks may grow more vulnerable to a dollar disruption
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 10:30
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What happens if non-US banks suddenly find themselves short of dollars? That was the case during the global financial crisis of 2007-2008,...
From stablecoins to central bank digital currencies
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 17:55
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Our last blog introduced stablecoins—cryptographic tokens that can be easily exchanged, benefitting from minimal price volatility relative to...