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By Aldington "Junior" Murray July 4, 2025

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

The term Russian roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s …

Issue # 211

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

July 4, 2025

To prevent athletes from switching allegiance

July 4, 2025

Our education system is in serious crisis

July 4, 2025

Eye movements and reading

July 4, 2025
By Alexander Scott January 7, 2022

COVID Court Drama Bad For Everyone

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, …

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By Vernon Davidson December 24, 2021

As We Enter A New Year

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 …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray December 24, 2021

A, B, Cs Are Not Simple Anymore

What is currently taking place in America and, indeed, the world strikes at the basic tenets of the education of our children. Unproven conspiracy theories have cast a disfiguring blight upon …

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By Alexander Scott December 24, 2021

Those Troubling No-Votes On Condemning Fascism

The 12th of November saw the United Nations General Assembly gather and do what it normally does, pass resolutions which, though toothless, carry serious moral weight. The resolution up for debate …

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By Joan Williams December 10, 2021

Flogging The Wrong Horse

Kyle Rittenhouse got away with murder in the USA, but I can’t imagine him being found ‘not guilty’ in any other country in the world. Also, were he a black man, …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray December 10, 2021

Law And Justice – Do Not Confuse Them

As a young man — wide-eyed and full of enthusiasm — this writer was enamoured by the legal profession. After watching such television programmes as Perry Mason, Crown Court, and Petrocelli — …

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By Professor Gaunette Sinclair-Maragh PhD December 10, 2021

Mandatory Vaccine For Tourism Workers – Is This Around The Corner?

The tourism ministry in Jamaica has been constantly encouraging workers in the industry to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. The seriousness of this matter led to the establishment of the …

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By Alexander Scott November 26, 2021

Time To Take A Stand On Miss Universe

Jamaican people root for the underdog, they side with the oppressed and have, for ages, stood firmly against imperialism. This is not in doubt. History bears this out.  When Ethiopia was …

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By Aldington "Junior" Murray November 26, 2021

Let’s Say They Had Succeeded, What Would Have Happened Then?

“Proud Boys,” “Oath Keepers,” “QAnon,” “3 percent,” “Boogaloo,” and “NSC-131” are some of the white racist extremist groups which were responsible for the attempted coup d’etat in Washington, DC on January …

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By A Concerned Observer November 26, 2021

Life In Beijing During COVID-19

By Danielle Webster It has almost been two years since the COVID -19 pandemic emerged and changed the way we live, work and play. For the entire time, I have been …

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