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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 Alexander Scott May 12, 2023

Crime plans and crime stats

Is the crime plan working? This is an interesting question, given we have, after some delay, got the crime plan long spoken of by the PM. To no one’s surprise, the …

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By Alexander Scott November 11, 2022

Threading The Needle

The Government of Jamaica continues to display a strange foreign policy, which has been highlighted in recent weeks. The Government no longer seems oblivious to the changing realities in the global …

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By Alexander Scott October 28, 2022

Labour Laws: We Have A Fight On Our Hands

A recent report released by the the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has highlighted what many Jamaicans interested in the welfare of the Jamaican worker have long suspected. The report, which …

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By Alexander Scott September 30, 2022

Game Changer

On Friday, September 23, one of the most boring courts in the land issued a ruling which, to those who pay close enough attention, changes the landscape the Jamaican worker must …

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By Alexander Scott September 16, 2022

CARICOM Must Decide On Haiti

In recent weeks CARICOM held a summit at which the regional body once again expressed concern over the situation in Haiti. This concern has been longstanding as issues in Haiti invariably …

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By Alexander Scott September 2, 2022

No Love For The Environment –

The current Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration has, over the past few years, talked a big game as it relates to the environment. The Government congratulates itself on the boundaries of …

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By Alexander Scott August 19, 2022

Eat To Grow Plan Critique And Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic, along with the Russia-Ukraine war have thrown many spanners in the works of the old-world order. Gone are the days of unopposed unipolarity. We now live in an …

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By Alexander Scott August 5, 2022

Stay The Economic Course – Or Keep Tightening Your Belt While I Get Fat

Jamaica is going through interesting times. We are currently experiencing the lowest level of unemployment in our history, yet almost two million people are — according to a local newspaper — …

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By Alexander Scott July 22, 2022

No Good Guys In This War, But No One Likes A Hypocrite

Evil Putin, the madman Putin, the terminally ill Putin, the isolated Putin, each of these statements made in relation to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his actions since 2012, have picked …

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By Alexander Scott July 8, 2022

Pointless Pandering To The Public

The end of June saw one of the most horrific crimes in recent memory when a young family of 5 in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, were brutally murdered. In a nation which …

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Recent Posts

  • 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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