Champs, Celebration, And Societal Hypocrisy
The well-known hymn’s promise is: “The strife is o’er, the battle won; now is the victor’s triumph sung.” After a decade Jamaica College has won the Boys’ athletic championship. Edwin Allen …
The well-known hymn’s promise is: “The strife is o’er, the battle won; now is the victor’s triumph sung.” After a decade Jamaica College has won the Boys’ athletic championship. Edwin Allen …
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade …
Out of evil cometh good! The pandemic not only forced SVREL to pause the nonsensical running of the 2,000 Guineas on a Sunday, it has (temporarily?) required the running of both …
Does White America, by and large, misunderstand the centuries old plight of Black America? Is what they project, in many instances, as a “misunderstanding” of the issues in that regard really …
The world is all agog at the international scandal brewing after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone. A post-race sample was found to contain 21 picograms of the …
The year 2020 was a disaster for the entire world, and Jamaica is no exception. It presented challenges to all countries, big and small, rich and poor, and we have all …
There is always a danger of developing a myopic view of life outside of the broader sweep of history. Avoiding its lessons and not being able to track its developmental or …
Parson christen him pickney first, a closed shop, the old boys’ club, patronage, nepotism. It is common knowledge and widely accepted that biases and prejudices exist and that people will, if …
Daydreaming was one of my favourite pastimes when I was a young boy. Like the fictional character Walter Mitty in James Thurber’s first short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, …
The United States is made up of citizens who are victimized by their own inability to stick to facts and a failure to tell the truth. Misinformation and myths that pervade …