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By Aldington "Junior" Murray July 4, 2025

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

The term Russian roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s …

Issue # 211

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

July 4, 2025

To prevent athletes from switching allegiance

July 4, 2025

Our education system is in serious crisis

July 4, 2025

Eye movements and reading

July 4, 2025
By Alexander Scott February 18, 2022

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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