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By Admin August 1, 2025

Happy Emancipation Day

A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

Issue # 213

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By The Terrible Tout September 29, 2017

Upside down taxation policy

My usually reliable sources tell me this year’s Yearling Sale has hit rock bottom with only 86 entries. EIGHTY-SIX? Christ on a crutch, that’s down 34% from 2016’s paltry 130 and …

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By Alexander Scott September 29, 2017

ZOSO will be a dud

Finally, after over a year of dilly-dallying the Government has passed a bill aimed at ridding the nation of violence (mainly caused by gangs and inflicted by the gun). The bill …

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By Indi McLymont September 29, 2017

Climate change, gender and persons with disabilities in small island developing states

(This article was originally published by Indi McLymont-Lafayette and Petre Williams- Raynor in a booklet produced by FES Panos Caribbean )   Climate change is perhaps the single most devastating challenge …

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By James Moss-Solomon September 29, 2017

Small Island Developing States beyond the disasters

I am writing this on Sunday, September 24 in the cool and green mountains of St. Andrew, and I can hear the warm-up sounds from the church across on the hillside …

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By Danny Roberts September 15, 2017

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 The Strategist September 15, 2017

Certainty of uncertainty

The last 10 years, particularly the recent 18 months, featured unprecedented world events — political surprises, economic shocks, and revolutionary technologies to name a view — and considerable uncertainty. Our interconnected …

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By Olive Nelson September 15, 2017

The ascendancy of anarchy

It was bound to happen. Murderers and violence peddlers of all types are popping up everywhere on the national landscape. Undaunted by the fear of capture, our newly minted gun-toting criminals …

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By The Laird September 15, 2017

Revenge of the nerd

As a young lad growing up in the 1970s and attending an all-boys traditional high school, there were few epithets worse from your peers than being described as a nerd. A …

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By Alexander Scott September 15, 2017

Yes Jamaica sucks, but we’re not all that bad

This may come as a surprise to those (few) persons who read what I post, but Jamaica actually isn’t doing badly. Now, before you start thinking that I have been smoking …

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By James Moss-Solomon September 15, 2017

Disaster response: Free advice for the last time

A well-researched diary of a natural disaster is an essential tool at this time, but in various parts. Firstly there is a need to deal with the conditions precedent and conducive …

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