Socialism: The ghost that haunts the system
The old specter of socialism is alive and well across the world and this has made the enemies of the working class and progress very uncomfortable. Across the world, the 21st …
Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
Religion and slavery
This is Elmina Castle where the slaves were held, traded and tortured. The second floor had a chapel and religious quarters If you are a descendant of African slaves, you shouldn’t …
Can America effect a reboot after Trump?
Several years ago, after a period of quiet reflection, I penned the following words and then shared them with some of my friends. But, more than it being a very short …
Education that unites us and builds strength
Instead of supporting separation and divisiveness, as I pointed out in my article for Public Opinion December 20, 2024 and reprinted February 28, 2025, education can promote unity, investigation, curiosity and …
Out of Africa – Ghana
There are 54 independent nations in Africa, but I have visited just over 10%. This is sad, as each country is unique and has given me the opportunity to understand a lot about my …
Education Defines Us And Separates Us
Since I started teaching in the 1970s, I watched as educators began promoting divisions by pulling students out into ‘special education’ resource rooms. I remember how my classes changed when students …
What After USAID?
The new Trump Administration has begun with a flurry of executive orders aimed at gutting core elements of the US Government and daily life. With the swipe of a pen we …
Mass Deportations or Ethnic Cleansing By Another Name?
What a difference a few days can make. I departed, along with my brother, from the shores of the United States on January 17, to attend to legal matters in Jamaica. …
From our early 1940’s beginnings in Bermuda and Jamaica
There is an old-saying, an adage, a proverb which says: ‘It is an ill wind that blows nobody good’. For Bermuda that ‘ill wind’ was the Second World War. Great Britain …
OUT OF AFRICA
“If we, as a people, realised the greatness from which we came, we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.” ― Marcus Mosiah Garvey Joe Biden’s legacy in the USA has not been …