Low Vaccination Rate And Trust
Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccination take-up remains at a shockingly low level. Many reasons are behind it but the primary two which have been highlighted since the first vaccine became available are low …
‘I and I build the cabin’- 192 years of landlessness and the unfinished emancipation of Jamaica
I and I build the cabin,I and I plant the corn,Didn’t my people before meSlave for this country,Now you look me with a scorn,Then you eat up all my corn. Those …
Why Try To Prevent Discussion, White America?
Why do those who initiated the conversation on race get to be the ones to end it, here in America? In fact, what they were engaged in was no dialogue at …
This Issue With The Maroons Raises Serious Questions
The recent standoff by who have been alleged to be members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on a ganja eradication mission and the Maroon community has stirred much conversation. On …
Why The Overkill?
It was the late American novelist, playwright and social activist, James Baldwin, who wrote: “…for power truly to feel itself menaced, it must somehow sense itself in the presence of another power …
The Power Of Symbolism
In the I800s, American novelist, short story writer and poet, Louisa May Alcott, – the author of the novel “Little Women” – wrote the following words: “Far away there in the sunshine are my …
Modern Tools For Mental Health
Say the word “Psychedelics” and one quickly can distinguish the Baby Boomers from Gen Z or Millennials in the room. Baby Boomers think of a bright kaleidoscope of colours and patterns …
Globalization, or Global Westernization?
To allow the ‘Master’ to drink rum, or lemonade in the shade, the education of the slaves had to be increased… with education, and an ever constant burning will to be …
What is China?
This is the question of the age which is currently on the minds of university professors, politicians, industrialists, and citizens, especially in the third world. The question is as follows: Is …
Beyond The Gig Economy
The world has and continues to endure a pandemic the likes of which we have not seen since the Spanish flu and whose impact on the work world is akin to …
Biotech — Boy, Have We Come A Long Way!
The twentieth century word “Biotechnology” was coined to depict the creation of useful products with the aid of living organisms. So, for example, several of our prized foods such as bread, …