Equality v Equity, Justice v A Just Resolution
Peter Tosh’s famous song Equal Rights states there will be no peace till there is equal rights and justice for all. This is a cry which has been made for eons …
The Problem With American Democracy – A Few Perspectives
In the aftermath of the United States presidential elections of 2024, despite the person who won the contest, and despite the political party that has regained the ascendancy in the governance …
The Serendipity of Jamaica’s Rhodes Scholarship
Congratulations are in order to Mr. Fitzroy Wickham of York Castle High School, Jamaica’s Rhodes Scholar 2021. Mr. Wickham is presently pursuing a medical degree in the United States of America. …
Apples or Oranges?
What if the law doesn’t work for anyone of African descent who calls this USA home – what then? What if “law and order” are just code words for keeping the …
The Ideal Public Servant
While the People’s National Party (PNP) acts as a vector of contagion spreading nasty, scurrilous, disrespectful mudslinging scatter-shot style regardless of who might be infected, its new President publicly pleads for …
Analysts Believe PNP Will Win the Next General Election
Satirical Corner In what political analysts described as ‘a brilliant strategy’ designed to shore up the People’s National Party’s fortunes for the next general elections, has been set out in a …
Fired! For sleeping on the job
Satirical Corner Republican strategists were kept busy over the weekend feverishly working to hatch a plan to reverse the outcome of the just-concluded 2020 US presidential elections. The Trump campaign team …
Character Matters
I don’t know who coined the phrase ‘character matters,’ but apparently, while conventional people may think it should, clearly to a very large percentage of American voters, it doesn’t. I was really …
Receding From Terror
What was hidden from the wise and prudent, now revealed to the babes and sucklings – No Baptism by The Ethiopians. Jamaica is finally showing signs of recession from terror. The …
Democracy
“In a pure democracy a pure majority can easily terrorize the rest of the country.” That quote is from a document explaining why the founding fathers of the United States of …
Thank God for Dayton Campbell! No Jestering!
Somewhere around the beginning of my teenage years my mother put up a sign over the door. A sign you could never miss if you were leaving the house. With sparkling …