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By Angelada December 26, 2025

Hope in the Spirit of Christmas

As Jamaicans continue to celebrate the birth of Christ, the season arrives this year carrying both familiar warmth and an unusual weight. Christmas in Jamaica has always been more than a …

Issue # 221

Hope in the Spirit of Christmas

December 26, 2025

The warning written in water – Part 111 – A blueprint for truthful governance

December 26, 2025

Time to put JPS back in public hands

December 26, 2025

That perennial minimum wage game

December 26, 2025

Principles, promises or just sheer American propaganda?

December 26, 2025
By Danny Roberts February 20, 2020 6 years 1,313 word

Is Millennial Socialism On The Agenda In Jamaica?

As we await, with great expectation, the campaign thrust in the soon-to-be called general elections, the Opposition PNP has defined the remit of its campaign around the philosophy of democratic socialism. …

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By Danny Roberts December 26, 2019 6 years 1,485 word

Trapped! Oh Yeah!

 When Jimmy Cliff wrote and recorded the song Trapped in 1972, it was about a relationship with a woman, and the influence or spell she had on him that, despite his …

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By Danny Roberts December 10, 2019 6 years 1,371 word

Patois – Figet it!

As a product of the ghetto, I grew up in the midst of poverty and violence and among people who were either illiterate or semi-literate but spoke fluent Patois.  I took …

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By Danny Roberts November 28, 2019 6 years 1,361 word

BBC! The New Language Frontier

Just over three centuries ago, there began to emerge in Britain, France and throughout Europe new ideas about the world and how it should be governed for the sake of human …

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By Danny Roberts October 3, 2018 7 years 1,516 word

Eliminating the gangway to prison

At the commencement of the school year I was silently praying and hoping that this will be the year when violence in schools will, if not totally eliminated, be drastically reduced, …

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By Danny Roberts February 8, 2018 8 years 1,482 word

Anancyism and the elusive progress or prosperity

  Recently, Contractor General Dirk Harrison, in an address to a Rotary Club meeting, spoke about the culture of anancyism and its effects in undermining Jamaica’s progress towards sustainable economic growth. …

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By Danny Roberts September 15, 2017 8 years 1,289 word

Emancipendence hasn’t made us ‘free indeed’

There is, on the face of it, seemingly no parallel, no connection or relation between the happenings in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States last month, and the celebration of Jamaica’s …

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By Danny Roberts April 14, 2017 9 years 1,136 word

(Dis)Respect and the (in)discipline of survival

Dr Peter Phillips’ now famous quote that ‘the man who plays by the rules is the man that gets shafted’, came home to me most forcibly  about two weeks ago after …

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By Danny Roberts March 17, 2017 9 years 1,393 word

Black lives and retroactive wages matter

  Economists across the ideological divide are at least at one when it comes to the economic value of goods or services that is derived from the contribution of labour. Adam …

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Recent Posts

  • Hope in the Spirit of Christmas
  • The warning written in water – Part 111 – A blueprint for truthful governance
  • Time to put JPS back in public hands
  • That perennial minimum wage game
  • Principles, promises or just sheer American propaganda?
  • Land reform must follow Hurricane Melissa
  • The warning written in water — Part II —
  • If we are really serious about qualifying for the World Cup…
  • Artificial Intelligence — Help or hindrance to racism?
  • Post-Hurricane Melissa: Some thoughts

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