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 …
What are letters? They are symbolic representations of various sounds. Each, in itself, carries no meaning past this representation of sound. In combination, however, they transport us to limitless possibilities, allowing …
For over two and a half centuries while African-Americans were in the bonds of slavery, the white establishment subjected them to a Christian worldview that was justified by heavily redacted biblical …
We don’t seem to be able to get rid of Queen Elizabeth but we may soon get our own King. Yup, for that’s probably where the new Accompong Maroon chief wants …
As the Holness administration was set to be reshuffled with ministers removed, moved to new portfolios and new ones brought in, political analysts began to naturally make suggestions as to who …
From reading American history Mr. John Brown appears to have been the only white person who thought that the fight to free the Black man from the tyranny of white institutional …
I believe it was former US speaker, Tip O’Neil, who first publicly made the observation, “All politics is local.” That is certainly true and recently it appears that our PM Andrew …
We were in a Zoom discussion one morning when the idea of unconditional love arose — that, in order to embody something, one has first to receive it. Sometimes it comes …
The saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me” has been uttered by children for generations. Parents and grade school teachers, in an attempt to …
Jamaica, like other countries throughout the world, is having to deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic and how to live with it as a new ‘normal’. This is for many reasons, …
For the past four years I have had the privilege of editing Public Opinion, easily the best local electronic periodical offering thought leadership to Jamaica. It seems like it was only …
