Public Opinion, The Baptists And The National Movement
A quiet but not too distant presence in the sinews of Public Opinion was the Jamaican Baptist church. It was the Baptists who led the way to emancipation. It was the …
Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
Opening Our doors to the Huns, Goths, and other invading tribes
Update: My FLOW landline is crackling badly despite the visit of a crew and I have reported it again. The cell service has not improved, and needs a more strategically placed …
The REAL Ghetto Story?
Having grown up in August Town, in a place called Angola; ‘Gola’ for short, with adjoining areas of the community called “Jungle twelve,” and “Vietnam,” depicting war zones and perpetual fear, …
SOE-Liberty vs Security:Making Victims Of Us All
From a lay person’s point of view, a declaration of a state of public emergency may be a legal provision reserved for given times and circumstances of threatened or actual …
Time To Review The Extended Use Of The SOE
The means cannot become the end without a serious possibility of the condition of a National Security State emerging — with the permanent suspension of rights, often of some more than …
Rise Up And Demand A New World
The year 2020 got off to a bang on the international scene as the US and Iran came to the brink of open war. But after the murder of a top …
Endangered Species, Or Engendered Leeches?
You lay with him willingly, his seed growing inside you, running around you, the pitter-patter of their little feet trampling an almost sure path to the same place that the man …
Life’s Dilemma
Your life should always be geared towards entering. It should matter not to the actor in the overall grand scheme of things when one enters… for there are constant comings, …
An Opportunity For Radical Paradigm Shifts
Well here we are with the mixed bag update: The CAC letter to Flow seems to have worked partially. Technicians came to remedy the home phone and it is working reasonably …
Public Opinion And Me
The re-emergence of the name Public Opinion in Jamaican journalism is stuff that gladdens the heart. Especially mine. When I learnt in 1961 that the little weekly newspaper at Torrington …