‘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 …
Time To End The Cuba Blockade
On June 23 this year, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly once again voted on a resolution which condemns the blockade on Cuba as illegal and inhumane and calls on the …
Truth And Ideology – A Question
In these eventful times and at this critical juncture in our collective experience of being, it might be an opportune moment to pause and take stock of the roots of our …
Cannibalism Of Souls
The Black man has often been painted in the dark, bestial and bloody hues of the savage cannibal. Such propaganda had been used as a pretext to colonize, to civilize and …
Kenya: Beautiful Country, Lovely People, Great Wildlife
Before 2020, I had never really had any interest in visiting Kenya. For, it wasn’t one of the African countries from which slaves were kidnapped and brought to Jamaica. So it …
Beware Those NGOs
Jamaica, like most third world countries, is awash with many NGOs. These organisations run the gamut from advocating transparency, gender rights, LGBTI rights, Black rights and so on and more often …
Lambert Brown, Jungle Justice And The Failing Jamaican State
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade …
I Don’t Understand!
Does White America, by and large, misunderstand the centuries old plight of Black America? Is what they project, in many instances, as a “misunderstanding” of the issues in that regard really …
Spiritual Transformation
The United States is made up of citizens who are victimized by their own inability to stick to facts and a failure to tell the truth. Misinformation and myths that pervade …
Professional Football: Business Or Sport?
By Walter Scott The European media, politicians, and fanatics a.k.a fans, all went ballistic after the announcement of the formation of the European Super League (ESL) by 12 of Europe’s largest …