The Trump Train and Why It Exists
It has been a little over a month since the wheels of the Trump Administration train rolled on out of the presidential inauguration station on Monday, January 20 this year. It …
Land reform must follow Hurricane Melissa
In 1838, slavery was abolished in the British West Indies. It was the end of an over 300-year policy, practice, and business of enslaving Africans to work on the sugar plantations on …
Out of Africa – Ghana
There are 54 independent nations in Africa, but I have visited just over 10%. This is sad, as each country is unique and has given me the opportunity to understand a lot about my …
Education Defines Us And Separates Us
Since I started teaching in the 1970s, I watched as educators began promoting divisions by pulling students out into ‘special education’ resource rooms. I remember how my classes changed when students …
A Strange Request That Was Made Of Me About The US Constitution
I have been watching and I have been praying, with growing concern, about the state of affairs within this country — that of the United States of America. Before the politicians …
What After USAID?
The new Trump Administration has begun with a flurry of executive orders aimed at gutting core elements of the US Government and daily life. With the swipe of a pen we …
Mass Deportations or Ethnic Cleansing By Another Name?
What a difference a few days can make. I departed, along with my brother, from the shores of the United States on January 17, to attend to legal matters in Jamaica. …
From our early 1940’s beginnings in Bermuda and Jamaica
There is an old-saying, an adage, a proverb which says: ‘It is an ill wind that blows nobody good’. For Bermuda that ‘ill wind’ was the Second World War. Great Britain …
OUT OF AFRICA
“If we, as a people, realised the greatness from which we came, we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.” ― Marcus Mosiah Garvey Joe Biden’s legacy in the USA has not been …