Welcome to my home on the web! This space serves as my little oasis to share with you all I do and to contribute to the development of Jamaica and the Caribbean, so we can play our part in advancing the welfare of the whole human race.
All by Jodi-Ann Quarrie
That idea that you constantly are doing the very best every single day and the 100% that you give is the same as the 100% that you can give in your most perfect times is rubbish.
A country going forward can’t be pulled into so many directions without a unifying story. The tension will tear us apart.
Is tearing us apart.
So, we need a single, coherent narrative of the Jamaican Dream. What are we all working towards? Why do we need to all do this nation thing together?
I'm revising my resume. It is time.
I believe we can create better Commissions of Enquiry coming out of Tivoli 2010. My life has been changed by it, and I think the way we conduct Commissions should change as well.
Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Bahamas now recognize Palestine as a State. This is after a failed bid by Palestine to gain UN membership and an apparent coalescing around Palestine in the UN General Assembly. Seven months into a war, however, what does this recognition even mean?
Governments across the world are trying to keep their citizens safe and end the COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccines on the way, can governments mandate citizens take a COVID-19 vaccine in order to protect them?
At all times though, it is to be remembered that the freedom of the press is a fundamental marker of the freedom of a society, a well functioning democracy, and the importance of every person having a voice and a say in our country.
One of the most controversial conversations that has come up during the COVID-19 pandemic has been whether Jamaicans can be banned from Jamaica. I say no. Our Constitution says why.