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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 Danny Roberts February 20, 2020

Is Millennial Socialism On The Agenda In Jamaica?

As we await, with great expectation, the campaign thrust in the soon-to-be called general elections, the Opposition PNP has defined the remit of its campaign around the philosophy of democratic socialism. …

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By Danny Roberts December 26, 2019

Trapped! Oh Yeah!

 When Jimmy Cliff wrote and recorded the song Trapped in 1972, it was about a relationship with a woman, and the influence or spell she had on him that, despite his …

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By Danny Roberts December 10, 2019

Patois – Figet it!

As a product of the ghetto, I grew up in the midst of poverty and violence and among people who were either illiterate or semi-literate but spoke fluent Patois.  I took …

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By Danny Roberts November 28, 2019

BBC! The New Language Frontier

Just over three centuries ago, there began to emerge in Britain, France and throughout Europe new ideas about the world and how it should be governed for the sake of human …

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By Danny Roberts October 3, 2018

Eliminating the gangway to prison

At the commencement of the school year I was silently praying and hoping that this will be the year when violence in schools will, if not totally eliminated, be drastically reduced, …

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By Danny Roberts February 8, 2018

Anancyism and the elusive progress or prosperity

  Recently, Contractor General Dirk Harrison, in an address to a Rotary Club meeting, spoke about the culture of anancyism and its effects in undermining Jamaica’s progress towards sustainable economic growth. …

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By Danny Roberts September 15, 2017

Emancipendence hasn’t made us ‘free indeed’

There is, on the face of it, seemingly no parallel, no connection or relation between the happenings in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States last month, and the celebration of Jamaica’s …

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By Danny Roberts April 14, 2017

(Dis)Respect and the (in)discipline of survival

Dr Peter Phillips’ now famous quote that ‘the man who plays by the rules is the man that gets shafted’, came home to me most forcibly  about two weeks ago after …

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By Danny Roberts March 17, 2017

Black lives and retroactive wages matter

  Economists across the ideological divide are at least at one when it comes to the economic value of goods or services that is derived from the contribution of labour. Adam …

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  • No respect for women
  • Doctor, I still have hopes for America – am I mad?
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