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By Dr. Alis Headlam May 30, 2025

Another Country

I was 14 in 1961 when my family moved to Istanbul, Turkey, from the United States for a one-year Fulbright appointment that my dad received. He was offered a position to …

Issue # 209

Another Country

May 30, 2025

Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) must be allowed to work

May 30, 2025

Snapshots of genocide through the eyes of the U.S. Administration

May 30, 2025

No respect for women

May 30, 2025

Doctor, I still have hopes for America – am I mad?

May 30, 2025
By The Laird May 12, 2017

Equal pay for women in sports – A myth

Over the last couple of years there has been a hue and cry about the lack of equality in pay and compensation for professional female athletes. This came to a head …

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By The Laird April 28, 2017

Education funding – a new policy

The Government of Jamaica (GOJ), commendably, has just decided to spend J$300 million to assist deregistered final year students at the University of the West Indies (UW), University of Technology, Jamaica …

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By The Laird April 14, 2017

Professional sports – the Jamaican farce

I am a self-confessed sports junkie.  I need my daily fix of sports or my life becomes a boring humdrum of work, work, work and the interventions of Hilda. I have …

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By The Laird March 17, 2017

Boarding schools and the marginalised male -­ A solution

  It has been axiomatic for decades in this country that the main driver for legitimate economic empowerment for the poor and the middle classes is education. We have all, at …

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