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By Dr. Alis Headlam May 30, 2025

Another Country

I was 14 in 1961 when my family moved to Istanbul, Turkey, from the United States for a one-year Fulbright appointment that my dad received. He was offered a position to …

Issue # 209

Another Country

May 30, 2025

Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) must be allowed to work

May 30, 2025

Snapshots of genocide through the eyes of the U.S. Administration

May 30, 2025

No respect for women

May 30, 2025

Doctor, I still have hopes for America – am I mad?

May 30, 2025
By Michelle Neita April 20, 2018

Mix & mingle in the Rio Grande Valley

Nanny’s Watch Hill was a focal point. Green and serene, it stands testimony to a free Maroon society. Seemingly sliced in half from its pinnacle to its base, we were led …

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By Valerie Dixon April 20, 2018

Tribute to fearless warrior Winnie Madikizela Mandela

There is a saying in South Africa which goes “If you strike a woman, you strike a rock.”  Winnie Madikizela Mandela was a rock.  She proved to be tougher than a …

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By Valerie Dixon February 23, 2018

100 years after jealous, bad-minded people destroyed Garvey

  It’s that time of year again when many people trumpet noise about February being ‘Black History Month’ and in so doing they simply warm over and feed us on the …

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By Stacey Mitchell January 25, 2018

Interfaith discourse can help our nation

(The article below is taken from a talk prepared by Stacey Mitchell for World Religion Day 2018 which draws heavily on an October 1985 document called the Promise of World Peace) …

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By Joan Grant-Cummings November 10, 2017

The state of our democracy: why corruption is a ‘gendered’ issue [Part II]

In 2001, controversy linking gender and corruption became the burning issue in anti-corruption policy debate. Two sets of researchers published works that fuelled the great debate. Dollar et al published: “Are …

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By Walter H. Scott QC October 27, 2017

In honour of the bicentenary of the birth of Bahá’U’lláh

A fact of history can only be truly understood if one understands the context within which the fact occurred. Thus, neither the Maroon Treaty of 1739 nor the introduction of Crown …

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By Olive Nelson September 15, 2017

The ascendancy of anarchy

It was bound to happen. Murderers and violence peddlers of all types are popping up everywhere on the national landscape. Undaunted by the fear of capture, our newly minted gun-toting criminals …

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By Dr. Janice Glean August 18, 2017

Prevent and recognize disease: alter its course

We all have an inbuilt genetic code; not only is it chemical, it is also very complex.  Each gene has its own inbuilt code and its unique collection of chemicals, which can …

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By Velma Pollard July 7, 2017

About face: Violence and power in today’s Jamaica

“Face” is a significant topic in the study of human social interaction. The notion of “dissing and being dissed” is the local counterpart of the negative aspect of that concept. Face …

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By Ava Sewell Williamson June 23, 2017

Calling Men

I listened with awe the other day, to a phone-in program on a popular radio station that asked the question, “who is to blame for the indiscipline in schools? Mom? Dad? …

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