Skip to content
Public Opinion
  • Home
  • Featured
  • Public Interest
  • Thought Leadership
  • The Laird
  • Youth
  • Sport
  • People
  • Business

Category: Public Interest

  • Home
  • Public Interest
  • Uncategorized
By Admin August 1, 2025

Happy Emancipation Day

A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

Issue # 213

World Order Appears to be coming apart, but this is a time of Great Hope

August 1, 2025

Religions failing to act as the largest slaughter of the 21st century takes place

August 1, 2025

After 63 years of Independence…

August 1, 2025

Stepping away from US politics: A time to de-stress

August 1, 2025
By Aldington "Junior" Murray January 21, 2022

Let Us Talk About Old John Brown In Light Of American Politics Today 

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 …

Read more
By Joan Williams January 7, 2022

KSAC, A Sleeping Watchdog? No.

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 …

Read more
By Jeffrey Peterson January 7, 2022

Unconditional Love

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 …

Read more
By Aldington "Junior" Murray January 7, 2022

Ah, Just Words, Nothing To Worry About; Really?

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 …

Read more
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, …

Read more
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 …

Read more
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 …

Read more
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 …

Read more
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, …

Read more
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 — …

Read more
    • 18
    • 19
    • 20
    • 21
    • 22
    • 23
    • 24
    • 25
    • 26

Recent Posts

  • World Order Appears to be coming apart, but this is a time of Great Hope
  • Religions failing to act as the largest slaughter of the 21st century takes place
  • After 63 years of Independence…
  • Stepping away from US politics: A time to de-stress
  • Happy Emancipation Day
  • As the political silly season intensifies…
  • Oh, for normalcy in the USA! – My reading journal
  • JFF has to answer
  • Jamaica: Land of wood and water or hood and laughter
  • The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

Get in touch

Anfield Publishers Limited 2021