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 …
Oh, just because they can! – The idea of “Might is Right”
There was a time when corporal punishment was part and parcel of our Jamaican school system. It was, perhaps, a holdover from the old British colonial era. It was often abused …
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 …
Pardoned? Yes, Pardoned! But what would ole Marcus Garvey have said?
Having read the autobiography of Mr. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, and some of his seminal writings, it would be appropriate to consider what his reaction might have been towards having been pardoned …
Manley and the renewed Jamaica
A recent interview done by Professor Anthony Bogues on Michael Manley’s centenary and entitled “Decolonizing Jamaica”, raised a number of interesting questions about the trajectory of our country’s future. As someone …
Tribute to Marcus Garvey – A Lesson in Courage
I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have received the Press Kit that belonged to the late Ken Jones, a serious and devoted advocate of Jamaica’s first national hero, the …
Declaration of inclusion
In 2021 a group of four Vermont citizens in the United States became involved in promoting a declaration that states ‘All are welcome’. Towns and cities across the state of Vermont …
Death of the liberal order and celebration of the far right
The far right is in rude health across the globe. Be it in Hungary, Austria, Germany or France we see where the far right has gone from an electoral non-starter to …
Law and disorder – Another example of U.S. constitutional madness
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. …