Repeatedly what I encountered on a long trip to South America, the coast of Africa, Morrocco and Spain reinforced the fact that nowhere in the world is exempt from the concern …
BY FRANK PHIPPS, KC Decades of action by succeeding governments for crime control, especially for murder spreading fear across the island as domestic terrorism, leave communities with a pockmarked face of …
On Friday, September 23, one of the most boring courts in the land issued a ruling which, to those who pay close enough attention, changes the landscape the Jamaican worker must …
“The Queen is dead.” The news was as a shot out of the dark. Word of her illness, with intimations of its deathly seriousness, were couched in euphemistic, English, monarchical language. …
National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey summarized our long-established practice when he said; “Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.” After slavery was abolished, our ancestors, who had been forcibly uprooted …
It is said that in legal matters, one ought to call upon the competence and objectivity of others for advocacy on one’s behalf, regardless of what side of a litigation one …
Jamaica is going through interesting times. We are currently experiencing the lowest level of unemployment in our history, yet almost two million people are — according to a local newspaper — …
Evil Putin, the madman Putin, the terminally ill Putin, the isolated Putin, each of these statements made in relation to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his actions since 2012, have picked …
This writer has been hearing much talk about reparations with respect to African Slavery in the media in recent years. As a son of the survivors of European colonialism and of …
We are all feeling the pinch! At the gas pumps, the supermarket, in our utility bills …you name it! And the scenario is shaping up to get worse. The psychological relief …
It is common for us to assume that all the descendants of the African slave trade have the same history. However, I have only recently started to learn that as bad …
