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By Aldington "Junior" Murray September 6, 2025

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 …

Issue # 214

Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect

September 6, 2025

Post-election Thoughts

September 6, 2025

In praise of the Jamaican Political Debate of August 28, 2025

September 6, 2025

Pre-election Highlights

September 6, 2025

Terrible Century Awaits Cricket West Indies

September 6, 2025
By Ewart Walters April 30, 2021

The Seventies – Hugh Shearer- Prime Minister And Decent Gentleman – Part 111

Hugh Shearer had won the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) by one vote. Now his tenure as prime minister was being weakened and sullied by colleagues anxious to wrest …

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By Ewart Walters April 16, 2021

The Seventies – Hugh Shearer – Prime Minister And Decent Gentleman — Part II

At Hugh Shearer’s funeral Edward Seaga hailed him as a “champion of the working class, a benefactor of the poor, and protector of the disadvantaged”. Prime Minister P.J Patterson hailed him …

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By Ewart Walters April 2, 2021

The Seventies: Hugh Shearer – Prime Minister and decent gentleman

July 5, 2004 brought to an end the impressive life of Jamaica’s third Prime Minister, Hugh Lawson Shearer. In the 13 days between his death and his funeral, Jamaica had the …

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By Ewart Walters February 4, 2021

Babylon System is a Vampire

The men and women who created the nation of Jamaica were not politicians. They were not paid. They were all volunteers. Together they created a mood, a knowledge, a drive and …

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By Ewart Walters January 7, 2021

1976-The Invasion of the Foreign Press

From five years between January 1976 and November 1980 Jamaica was invaded by the foreign press. Newspapers and news magazines from Canada, the USA, Britain and even Germany got into the …

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By Ewart Walters December 26, 2020

Darnella Frazier – Person of the Year 2020

TIME Magazine’s selection of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris for Persons of the Year was quite understandable. But it missed the mark. Much as those two people represent the …

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By Ewart Walters November 12, 2020

Receding From Terror

What was hidden from the wise and prudent, now revealed to the babes and sucklings – No Baptism by The Ethiopians. Jamaica is finally showing signs of recession from terror. The …

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By Ewart Walters October 29, 2020

Thank God for Dayton Campbell! No Jestering!

Somewhere around the beginning of my teenage years my mother put up a sign over the door. A sign you could never miss if you were leaving the house. With sparkling …

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By Ewart Walters September 17, 2020

Whither the Peoples National Party?

The elections are over. For the government, the big job will remain: Crime, unemployment, squatting, health, praedial larceny, water, roads. The teachers, the nurses and the police will come knocking in …

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By Ewart Walters September 3, 2020

Mass Weddings – Mary Morris Knibb

In the 1940s and 1950s mass weddings constituted a campaign to reduce high rates of illegitimacy and were spectacular public rites of accessing citizenship. These weddings were attended by prominent public …

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  • Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
  • Post-election Thoughts
  • In praise of the Jamaican Political Debate of August 28, 2025
  • Pre-election Highlights
  • Terrible Century Awaits Cricket West Indies
  • Happy Birthday Marcus
  • Marcus Garvey and Women on his mission of Pan-African activism
  • I’m Sorry Mr. Garvey, No Back to Africa for me
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