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 …
‘I and I build the cabin’- 192 years of landlessness and the unfinished emancipation of Jamaica
I and I build the cabin,I and I plant the corn,Didn’t my people before meSlave for this country,Now you look me with a scorn,Then you eat up all my corn. Those …
In praise of the Jamaican Political Debate of August 28, 2025
On Thursday, August 28, 2025, like many Jamaicans here in the diaspora, along with the numerous Jamaicans who were camped out around their television sets, their radios, their computer desktops, their …
I’m Sorry Mr. Garvey, No Back to Africa for me
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.” It was my intention …
Stepping away from US politics: A time to de-stress
“How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at …
Oh, for normalcy in the USA! – My reading journal
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” — Frank Serafini. I am an avid reader. …
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 …
Snapshots of genocide through the eyes of the U.S. Administration
“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard, The cries, too, fall like rain in summer” — Bertolt Brecht, Selected …
Doctor, I still have hopes for America – am I mad?
“Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.”— Don Quixote, Cervantes I have lived within the continental United States for several decades now. …
Parable of a Royal Abdication for the US Supreme Court
“This I do with all my heart. You all know the reasons which have — have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making …
Whites and blacks together again? Another opportunity, perhaps!
“The slave-holder knows wherein lies his power to enslave one class and trample upon another. He scatters abroad prejudice. And in order to do this, he scatters abroad ignorance, shrouding the …