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By Mabruke X September 11, 2026

‘I and I build the cabin’- 192 years of landlessness and the unfinished emancipation of Jamaica

I and I build the cabin,I and I plant the corn,Didn’t my people before meSlave for this country,Now you look me with a scorn,Then you eat up all my corn. Those …

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‘I and I build the cabin’- 192 years of landlessness and the unfinished emancipation of Jamaica

September 11, 2026

Beware rising right-wing tide

September 11, 2026
By Alexander Scott February 18, 2022 5 years 1,216 word

Don’t Be Fooled When Some Nations Talk About Human Rights

Recently, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding came out in an article with full-throated denunciations of the human rights situations in both China and Cuba. In the article he hedges his bets …

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By Alexander Scott June 25, 2021 5 years 1,125 word

Time To End The Cuba Blockade

On June 23 this year, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly once again voted on a resolution which condemns the blockade on Cuba as illegal and inhumane and calls on the …

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By Alexander Scott April 16, 2021 5 years 1,450 word

‘You Are No Sulla’

It is told, in what is probably an apocryphal tale, that Pompeii Magnus of the Triumvirate in a fit of rage exclaimed but “Sulla did it”. This was in reference to …

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By Alexander Scott March 19, 2021 5 years 1,102 word

Let’s End The Blockade Against Cuba

This year marks 61 years since the US government enacted a blockade against Revolutionary Cuba after the government nationalised US, and Canadian oil companies. For historical clarity let it not be …

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By Alexander Scott January 21, 2021 6 years 1,925 word

Ditch The Fear; Accept That Manufacturing Needs State Intervention, Protection And Planning

Jamaica’s manufacturing has, for decades, been anaemic. As a former plantation colony, we were never truly blessed with much manufacturing when independence was won in the 60s, and the ensuing decades …

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By Joan Williams January 7, 2021 6 years 1,017 word

Welcome 2021

2020 has been such a stressful year that I appreciate those who tried to make light of it with witty maxims. My personal favourite is “I did not enjoy 2020 so …

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By Alexander Scott August 20, 2020 6 years 1,319 word

To Shrug Off The Yoke Of Neo-Colonialism

Jamaica this year is 58. The journey to this milestone was a hard one but, in the end, independence was achieved. On August 6, 1962, Jamaica waved goodbye to the centuries …

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By Alexander Scott July 8, 2020 6 years 1,290 word

Abolish the police, yes, but deal with class and capitalism first

Abolish and defund the police, a phrase which is older than the George Floyd murder, has gained much more airplay since his heinous killing. It is a phrase and movement which …

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By Alexander Scott April 16, 2020 6 years 1,261 word

Show me your revolution

A revolution is not a dinner party. Words to that effect were spoken by one of the 20th century’s greatest revolutionaries, Mao, and they are as relevant today as they were …

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By Ewart Walters February 20, 2020 7 years 1,111 word

Public Opinion, The Baptists And The National Movement

A quiet but not too distant presence in the sinews of Public Opinion was the Jamaican Baptist church. It was the Baptists who led the way to emancipation. It was the …

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