Jamaica’s Future Does Not Look Like What Is Printed In Vision 2030
What does the future hold for Jamaica? This is a pertinent question which, for the most part, has either been dodged, danced around, or ignored by those who run the country. …
Beware Of The Sleeping Giant — A Word To The Incoming Trump Administration
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” –Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (After the attack on Pearl Harbour) Presidential and …
Reflections On Two Different Worlds (Part III)
By Joy Harris-Bailey In 2020, the masses of my adopted country, America, voted out a wannabe totalitarian leader and ushered in someone of the leading opposing party. He vowed to change …
The Problem Of Labels In The Current American Landscape
Junior Murray Perhaps one of the most hated words in the modern American society — one often used as a term of derision — is the word “liberal.” The vehemence and …
Of Exits And New Beginnings
Part II The Vicissitudes of Tropical Life Joy Bailey-Harris I love being in cool Irish Town, several miles above the heat and flurry of bustling Kingston. The cool air, the unspeakably …
I Swear – How Serious Is The American Pledge Of Allegiance
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” With those …
Our 1918 Moment
History does not repeat itself. That is an impossibility. The material factors of each historic age are always different, one era had the telephone and one had to rely on horse-delivered …
Of Exits And New Beginnings (Part I) My Journey Home
The feeling started as I watched the cop kneel into his neck. It wasn’t the kneeling. It wasn’t the public lynching. It was the hand in pocket. It was the nine …
An Unparalleled Imagination
I have really heard some convincing ghost stories in my time, but despite growing up scared as hell that I will one day run into one, I still remain unconvinced that …
Organising Is The Only Way To Get Change
Floyd Green, following the release of a video showing him attending a party on a no-movement day, has resigned from the Cabinet. The resignation came a few hours after the video …
The Other September 11s, Even More Heinous
Today as I write, the world remembers the tragic events which took place on September 11, 2001. Let me start by saying it was and remains a tragedy. Thousands of people …