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By Aldington "Junior" Murray July 4, 2025

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

The term Russian roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s …

Issue # 211

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

July 4, 2025

To prevent athletes from switching allegiance

July 4, 2025

Our education system is in serious crisis

July 4, 2025

Eye movements and reading

July 4, 2025
By Vernon Davidson December 24, 2021

As We Enter A New Year

For the past four years I have had the privilege of editing Public Opinion, easily the best local electronic periodical offering thought leadership to Jamaica. It seems like it was only …

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By The Laird December 24, 2021

Vaccine Apartheid

On 16 December 2021 my wife and I attended at a vaccination centre and got our booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. It was a smooth, seamless process. This simple but …

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By Ivy League December 24, 2021

Republican Status And The Legacy Of Slavery

Every so often we are reminded of how much we still remain a victim of revisionist history. That history has landed us in a contradiction of sorts.  Only by our own …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray December 24, 2021

A, B, Cs Are Not Simple Anymore

What is currently taking place in America and, indeed, the world strikes at the basic tenets of the education of our children. Unproven conspiracy theories have cast a disfiguring blight upon …

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By Jeffrey Peterson December 24, 2021

Justice And Imitation

Once upon a time, long,long ago, when I was about eight years old and living in a tiny little town in upstate New York, my parents, who were spiritually minded but …

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By Alexander Scott December 24, 2021

Those Troubling No-Votes On Condemning Fascism

The 12th of November saw the United Nations General Assembly gather and do what it normally does, pass resolutions which, though toothless, carry serious moral weight. The resolution up for debate …

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By The Terrible Tout December 24, 2021

Yuletide Racing Reflections

’Tis the season and all that… It’s traditional to reflect on the year’s happenings as we draw to the end of yet another racing year. For me the standout performer must …

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By Nate the Noble December 10, 2021

If We’re To Limit Crime And Increase Investment…

Crime…. Part of Jamaica’s balanced breakfast. Alongside corruption and craziness, it forms the Holy Trinity of issues that plague Jamaican society. Since the dawn of man, crime has existed in some …

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By James Moss-Solomon December 10, 2021

Change And Decay In All Around I See…

The focus at the time of writing seems to be centered on matters of crime; integrity; Government board reviews; and constitutional reform. These may seem unrelated to a casual onlooker but …

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By Joan Williams December 10, 2021

Flogging The Wrong Horse

Kyle Rittenhouse got away with murder in the USA, but I can’t imagine him being found ‘not guilty’ in any other country in the world. Also, were he a black man, …

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