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By Dr. Alis Headlam May 30, 2025

Another Country

I was 14 in 1961 when my family moved to Istanbul, Turkey, from the United States for a one-year Fulbright appointment that my dad received. He was offered a position to …

Issue # 209

Another Country

May 30, 2025

Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) must be allowed to work

May 30, 2025

Snapshots of genocide through the eyes of the U.S. Administration

May 30, 2025

No respect for women

May 30, 2025

Doctor, I still have hopes for America – am I mad?

May 30, 2025
By Erica Hamilton July 25, 2019

Our threatened oceans

  Many of us have either flown over the vastness of the ocean, or sailed upon its surface. I myself have fished so far from land that it is out of …

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By Aisa Saho July 24, 2019

Sumfest – opportunities for all

Reggae Sumfest is known by probably every Jamaican and every reggae music fan as one of the best reggae festivals perhaps in the world. The event, in picturesque Montego Bay, celebrated …

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By Yahoo July 24, 2019

Tired of the JFF griping about lack of resources

The inability of our Under 23 male footballers to qualify for the next Olympics by failing to beat fellow Caribbean neighbours Dominica and St Kitts is another embarrassment in the management …

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By James Moss-Solomon July 23, 2019

The three big Cs preventing a growth take-off

T The three most-mentioned topics of concern for citizens, diaspora members, and well-wishers in the past few months have the same starting letter. They are crime, corruption, and choices. Both individually …

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By The Terrible Tout July 23, 2019

Value at the tote (less is more) and in the St Leger

  Unfortunately, local horse racing continues to bleed customers of all ages. Very few of the millennial generation are sufficiently interested to invest in a tote that extorts 30% of stakes …

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By Alexander Scott July 23, 2019

Time to stop shameful victim blaming in cases of rape and sexual abuse

In September last year, the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Kingston sparked heated discussion in Jamaica and the diaspora, which has only increased as the carnage meted out …

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By James Moss-Solomon July 11, 2019

We Must Address The Root of the Problem

  Not all Parliamentary debates end in furor or partisanship. One such recent event was Minister Hon. Samuda speaking to the future of the education of our nation’s young people, and …

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By Donovan Dowie July 11, 2019

Is Democratic Socialism an Oxymoron in the 21st Century?

  Traditional economists misunderstood the nature of economic ‘laws’ when they equate them to the laws of the physical sciences such as chemistry and physics.                                                 …Donovan Dowie One of the reasons …

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By Alexander Scott July 11, 2019

Canada, The Quiet Imperialist

With friends like Canada who needs to fear the USA. Canada has for many decades been viewed as the polite nation in the North American power duopoly, acting in a more …

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By The Terrible Tout July 11, 2019

A Derby Day Fashion Statement

The following apocryphal story has been making the rounds since I was knee high to a grasshopper (or grass lice whichever you prefer). Lord Nelson was on the bridge of HMS …

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  • Another Country
  • Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) must be allowed to work
  • Snapshots of genocide through the eyes of the U.S. Administration
  • No respect for women
  • Doctor, I still have hopes for America – am I mad?
  • Declining murder rate is good but more needs to be done
  • Some critical development initiatives to 2032
  • The Notebook
  • Nairobi -1st and 3rd World
  • World Crisis

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