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 …
Hugh Shearer had won the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) by one vote. Now his tenure as prime minister was being weakened and sullied by colleagues anxious to wrest …
The recent heinous murder of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson has elicited the now normal response from Jamaican society. It started with the alert that she was missing, the police and security ministry …
In 2012 the city of Rutland in Vermont was in despair. Its police department was in chaos, neighbourhoods were engulfed in a drug epidemic, housing and infrastructure were in desperate need …
At Hugh Shearer’s funeral Edward Seaga hailed him as a “champion of the working class, a benefactor of the poor, and protector of the disadvantaged”. Prime Minister P.J Patterson hailed him …
Once again, La Soufriere has disrupted the lives of so many people in St. Vincent, where the economic fallout of COVID-19 has already been taking such a toll that just last …
I hate religion. Every time I say that I get lots of glares, then someone accuses me of being an atheist! Atheist? Good God, in my book it takes a great …
July 5, 2004 brought to an end the impressive life of Jamaica’s third Prime Minister, Hugh Lawson Shearer. In the 13 days between his death and his funeral, Jamaica had the …
Jamaica used to be the most independent and progressive of what was known as the West Indies, but on the issue of becoming masters or mistresses of our own destiny, we …
Having recently retired I decided to apply for, what I thought, was my livable, well-deserved and hard-earned State pension that, over the last 32 years, I willingly complied and contributed to …
A raging debate has erupted as to whether Jamaica is a laggard Caribbean state in the race to get its people vaccinated against Covid19. The protagonist debaters point out that Barbados, …
