Is China Colonialist?
China’s influence in the world has long sparked suspicion and envy. This is to be expected as such a giant country going from zero to one hundred in what seems no …
“Out of many,one people” – actual or aspirational in respect to Asian Jamaicans?
There were moments in my youth and in my early adult life when I heard it said that the problem in Jamaica was never about racism but one that was, more …
Progress blunted at Independence
Public Opinion was launched by Osmond Theodore Fairclough in 1937 specifically to create an awareness about the need for a political party. It succeeded in 1938 when the People’s National Party …
Trapped! Oh Yeah!
When Jimmy Cliff wrote and recorded the song Trapped in 1972, it was about a relationship with a woman, and the influence or spell she had on him that, despite his …
Emancipendence, Garvey and the charade that passes for a modern Jamaica
The recently coined word “Emancipendence” has been cleverly used to describe two quite separate events that culminated over 100 years apart. They do, however, represent two cooperative efforts that transcended racial …