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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 Ewart Walters July 23, 2020

Cow Father – The Jamaican who ‘made’ a cow

Thomas Philip Lecky was a pioneer in Jamaican agricultural science who “made” a cow. No jestering. A man of unparalleled devotion, his phenomenal exploits in animal breeding created a shining legacy …

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By Ewart Walters July 8, 2020

Everton Weekes – Short Bat

Good cricketers come in all shapes and sizes, especially bowlers. The best fast bowlers have been six foot something and well built specimens. Names like Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Wesley Hall, …

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By Ewart Walters May 28, 2020

Emancipation, Rastafari, Whoppy King, and Coral Gardens

Tales of the Black Friday Coral Gardens events in recent years disregard the deeper background and leave a warped understanding of Rastafari and the emerging Jamaican society. Rastafari emerged in the …

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By Ewart Walters May 13, 2020

Progress blunted at Independence

Public Opinion was launched by Osmond Theodore Fairclough in 1937 specifically to create an awareness about the need for a political party. It succeeded in 1938 when the People’s National Party …

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By Ewart Walters April 29, 2020

Coronavirus – We no want no devil philosophy

They made their world so hard Every day we got to keep on fighting They made their world so hard Every day the people are dyin’ For hunger and starvation Lamentation …

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By Ewart Walters February 20, 2020

Public Opinion, The Baptists And The National Movement

A quiet but not too distant presence in the sinews of Public Opinion was the Jamaican Baptist church. It was the Baptists who led the way to emancipation. It was the …

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By Ewart Walters February 6, 2020

Public Opinion And Me

The re-emergence of the name Public Opinion in Jamaican journalism is stuff that gladdens the heart. Especially mine.    When I learnt in 1961 that the little weekly newspaper at Torrington …

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