Author: Russell Barrett
Russell is a successful honours graduate of the regionally acclaimed University of the West Indies, Mona Campus where he received a Bachelors of Science degree in International Relations and Public Policy and Management. An avid sports enthusiast and a young philanthropic leader, Russell has been recognised at UWI’s student’s award ceremony for outstanding service and leadership (2015-2016) and was also awarded a place on UWI’s Social Sciences Faculty Dean’s List in 2016 for academic achievement. He has been intricately involved with youth development and policy development having completed internships at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission. He is passionate about contributing to Jamaica’s development and continues to seek opportunities to engage and help uplift his fellow peers towards their maximum potential. As president of the UWI’s Governance Society, he successfully partnered with the British Council of Jamaica on their Rights Awareness Programme in several high schools. Finally, he maintains that ‘to whom much is given much is expected’.
Arguably, the night of Thursday, September 03rd, 2020 will be engraved in Jamaica’s political history as the largest ‘paradigm shift’ …
Public Procurement – Buying? Purchasing? Trade-offs? Ideally, most persons identify the act of “procurement” as simply ‘the use of money …
SITUATIONAL BACKGROUND Over the past few weeks, the current local and international dialogue surrounding the COVID-19 virus has experienced a …
Are you still trying to adopt to this new prolonged ‘work from home’ arrangement amidst COVID-19 ? Have you been …
SITUATION ROOM: “OPERATION CONTAIN COVID 19” At approximately 11:00 am on Tuesday, March 1oth, 2020, there was a spine-chilling sweep …
Dear Editor, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Jamaican political arena may just have preempted the Wray & Nephew’s start of this …
Dear Editor, The Jamaican Contingent to the recently concluded IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama, Japan recorded arguably the most …