Forward Ever Backward Never
The most important factor in finding winners is the state of the going. It’s the horses’ main external contact so, as Dennis Brown might say, some like it hot; some like …
Religious-political hypocrisy within the United States
“Si de hypocrites dem a galang deh!Sy de hypocrites dem a galang deh!See di hypocrites dem a-galang deh! Man, go!”— Robert Nesta Marley There are a lot of things about the …
Selling Their Souls To The God Of Profit And A Foreign Land
Jamaica is a funny country; our capitalist class is so embedded and so all-powerful that they have successfully vanquished the talk of socialism in this country, which has been unmatched in …
Cowards!
“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.” Sir Winston Churchill There was an unexpected scandal in the Senate last night. The scandal was not that the Government did not get …
Maligning Jamaican Mothers
No child can be born without the input of a male, but too many Jamaican men are being allowed to get away without providing any financial support for the children they …
Interest Rates
The announcement by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) that it has increased interest rates in an effort to control inflation has raised eyebrows and initiated discussion among the public who are …
Inaction And Ignorance Causes Idiocy
A common proverb is that ‘The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.’ This is meant to indicate that although things may seem bad from our individual …
Time To Take A Stand On Miss Universe
Jamaican people root for the underdog, they side with the oppressed and have, for ages, stood firmly against imperialism. This is not in doubt. History bears this out. When Ethiopia was …
Let’s Say They Had Succeeded, What Would Have Happened Then?
“Proud Boys,” “Oath Keepers,” “QAnon,” “3 percent,” “Boogaloo,” and “NSC-131” are some of the white racist extremist groups which were responsible for the attempted coup d’etat in Washington, DC on January …
Life In Beijing During COVID-19
By Danielle Webster It has almost been two years since the COVID -19 pandemic emerged and changed the way we live, work and play. For the entire time, I have been …
After COP26…
The buzz word of worldwide news seems to be related to the global conference of the United Nations COP26, currently being held in Glasgow, Scotland. It has been an extended and …