The Changing World And How To Understand It
The system that oppressed us over 400 years ago has not disappeared, it is still with us; it has merely mutated. Its most conspicuous form of oppression was the control of …
‘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 …
Babylon System is a Vampire
The men and women who created the nation of Jamaica were not politicians. They were not paid. They were all volunteers. Together they created a mood, a knowledge, a drive and …
Thank God for Dayton Campbell! No Jestering!
Somewhere around the beginning of my teenage years my mother put up a sign over the door. A sign you could never miss if you were leaving the house. With sparkling …
Whither the Peoples National Party?
The elections are over. For the government, the big job will remain: Crime, unemployment, squatting, health, praedial larceny, water, roads. The teachers, the nurses and the police will come knocking in …
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 …
Public Opinion And Me
The re-emergence of the name Public Opinion in Jamaican journalism is stuff that gladdens the heart. Especially mine. When I learnt in 1961 that the little weekly newspaper at Torrington …
BUNTING, ROPER HAVE ‘DISSED’ THE AMBITION OF AN ENTIRE NATION
It is a sad moment in the history of Jamaica when we finally have to realize that the crass politics and their accompanying utterances leave very little hope for natural evolution. …