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By Admin August 1, 2025

Happy Emancipation Day

A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

Issue # 213

World Order Appears to be coming apart, but this is a time of Great Hope

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Religions failing to act as the largest slaughter of the 21st century takes place

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After 63 years of Independence…

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Stepping away from US politics: A time to de-stress

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By Judith Wedderburn March 29, 2024

Reflections Of A Haitian Teenager: Why I Had To Leave Haiti And Came To Jamaica

My father rushed into our one-room home, with its dirt floor and small windows with black cloths over them so that the soldiers could not know we were there. “You have …

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By Joan Williams March 15, 2024

Will The Exploited Be Compensated For Slavery?Do Not Hold Your Breath!

On the 7th February, I posted a blog entitled ‘The Thieving British” (which was subsequently carried in Public Opinion). In the article, I expressed shock at the story on BBC which exposed Britain’s audacity in loaning treasures …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray March 1, 2024

Do We Need Another National Hero – The Marley Saga

Everybody in the world has an opinion about something or the other. But every opinion is as a nail, a common hardware item, which, without an external force applied to the …

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By Joan Williams February 16, 2024

British Thieves

I did an immediate double take on hearing this news headline on BBC; “UK to loan back Ghana’s looted ‘crown jewels’”. Thinking I had misheard, I made sure not to be …

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By Joan Williams February 2, 2024

Punishing the law-abiding while rewarding law breakers

This Gleaner story of January 18, 2024, under the headline; “Football dream fading, Second denial of US visa puts Munro graduate’s scholarship goal in jeopardy,” only caught my attention because it involved my …

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By Wendell Clarke January 19, 2024

Jamaica Needs To Take A Stance

  Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law, …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray January 5, 2024

Slavery: What The Bible Says And Does Not Say About It

What does the Christian Bible reveal about God’s attitude towards the institution of slavery? In the process of biblical interpretation, it is always the intent of sincere, competent exegetes to cognize …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray December 22, 2023

Political Freedom As Seen From The Mountain Top Of History

On the night before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered the following words from a speech that he made to …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray December 8, 2023

Is Democracy On Life Support Battling for Life?

There has been much talk in the news lately about the threat posed to established or recognized democracies around the world. The nemeses of democratic principles and practices have often been …

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By The Laird November 24, 2023

Economic Self-Interest

Caveat. Your columnist is not a trained economist. There are significant numbers of the private sector in Jamaica, of which your columnist is a member, who have complained of a shortage …

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